Presented during the Regional Change Management Team Conversation at CSC RO5 in October 2015 as part of my Learning Application Plan in connection with my attendance to the Public Management Development Program Senior Executives Class Batch 4 at the Development Academy of the Philippines.

1. Foreign Study
Mission
Atty. Daisy Punzalan Bragais
Director III
Civil Service Commission Regional Office No. 5

3. Module Objectives
Acquire deeper understanding of the government system,
processes and development programs of the focus country.
Describe best practices in the delivery of focus country’s public
service programs including its public sector management and
development initiatives.
Appreciate the commonalities and differences of
relevant Philippine government systems, processes
and programs, including the preparedness for
future challenges, against those of the focus country.

4. Identify improvement opportunities (based on
lessons learned) in home institution’s system and
approach to public service delivery.
Establish congenial, professional
relationship with individual counterparts
from focus country and identify
mutually-beneficial, collaborative
opportunities of home institution with
specific institutions or sectors of the focus
country in the light of ASEAN
Integration.

5. PMDP SEC 4 Alab Lahi
arrives at Ho Chi Minh City
Tan Son Nhat International Airport
September 13, 2015

6. The famous Vietnam
Motorcycles

7. Ho Chi Minh City

10. The horrors and atrocities of war…

12. Vietnamese
food

13. People’s Committee of
District 1, Ho Chi Minh City

14. Administrative Reforms in District 1
People’s Committee
September 14, 2015

15. One Stop Shop
Queuing Machine

26. From Ho Chi Minh City
to Hanoi…

27. Same green
food…

28. With SVP Magdalena L. Mendoza,
Faculty In-Charge, FSM
September 15, 2015

29. With DAP President Antonio D. Kalaw Jr.

30. The streets of Hanoi…

31. Preserving French
architecture
Central
Institute of
Economic
Management

32. Team Makakalikasan

33. With fellow CSC scholars

34. The bust of Ho Chi Minh
displayed in all public offices
that we visited

36. Inaugural Session @ STAMEQ

37. Lecture on Vietnam Government (Structure, Branches,
Organizations, Functions of Socialist Republic of Vietnam)

38. Ho Chi Minh National Academy of Politics
Institute for Leadership and Public Policy
September 16, 2015

39. The Provincial
Competitiveness Index
(PCI) and Public
Administration
Performance Index (PAPI)
Lecture on

41. Vietnam’s Health System
September 17, 2015

42. Healthy snacks
served in all
lectures/presentati
ons

43. September 17, 2015

44. With Philippine Ambassador to
Vietnam Jerril G. Santos

46. Typical side walk scenes…

48. September 18, 2015
Labor and Employment in Vietnam- Current Status,
Challenges, Chances and Perspectives

49. The scene outside the Institute
of Labor…

50. Diplomatic Academy of Vietnam
September 18, 2015

52. With Dr. Tran Viet Thai, Deputy Director
General, Diplomatic Academy of Vietnam

53. Socio-cultural visits
September 19, 2015

71. Hanoi’s
structures…

72. September 20, 2015

73. Walking in Vietnamese
street…

74. In front of Ho Chi Minh’s Mausoleum
September 20, 2015

75. Presidential Palace

77. September 21, 2015
At NoiBai Airport to Hongkong

78. PMDP SEC 4 Alab-Lahi in
Hongkong

79. My Takeaways
Vietnam’s citizen-centric approach to
governance
Openness to adopt to change
Patriotism and sense of history

80. “You will kill 10 of our men,
and we will kill 1 of yours,
and in the end it will be you
who tire of it.”
“Nothing is more
precious than
independence and
liberty.”
“Remember, the storm is a
good opportunity for the
pine and the cypress to
show their strength and
their stability.”