The 11th ASEAN Conference on Civil Service Matters (ACCSM) was held in Ha Noi on 16 – 18 October 2001 with the theme, “ASEAN Civil Services for Dynamic and Sustainable Development.” The conference discussed the technical papers which dealt with the following topics: (a) decentralization of primary health care during the period of economic slowdown in Brunei Darussalam; (b) strategies to undertake public administrative reforms in the civil service of both Cambodia and Viet Nam; (c) personnel information system as a catalyst for the implementation of civil service local autonomy of Indonesia; (d) performance appraisal in the Lao civil service; (e) e-Government experience of Malaysia; (f) challenges of civil service for the new millennium in Myanmar; (g) Philippine Civil Service Commission’s local scholarship program to professionalize the bureaucracy; (h) talent identification for a dynamic and sustainable government in Singapore; and (i) results-based management in the Thai public sector.

 The conference has also endorsed Cambodia’s proposal to establish an ASEAN Resource Centre (ARC) on Capacity Development of the Civil Servants and the Lao PDR’s proposal for an ASEAN Resource Centre on Civil Service Performance Management.  Nine member states have such similar bodies. 

 The ACCSM forum continues to serve as an effective venue for strengthening collaboration amongst member countries to make ASEAN civil services effective instruments of development.  The ACCSM further provides a mechanism for ASEAN member countries with more developed civil service systems to continue providing assistance and advisory services to CLMV countries on human resource training, studies and research.  The next ACCSM will be hosted by Brunei Darussalam in 2003.