Singapore Cooperation Programme - SCP

- Brazil is the largest exporter of frozen food to Singapore!

This week, SCP is excited to welcome over 20 participants to the inaugural Singapore-Brazil Third Country Training Programme Workshop on Food Safety.

Swipe to see snippets of remarks from Dr Tan Lee Kim, Kim, Director-General, Food Administration & Deputy CEO of the Singapore Food Authority, Her Excellency Eugênia Barthelmess, Brazil Ambassador to Singapore, and what some of our SCP friends are looking forward to during the Programme!

Today, the SCP hosted two official delegations from Batam City, Indonesia. 🙌

The first delegation from the Batam City government has just completed a rigorous two-week English language course focused on raising their proficiencies in drafting speeches and presenting confidently.

The second delegation from BP BATAM is embarking on their first day of a Study Visit hosted by Singapore Land Authority - SLA on Singapore’s experience in optimising land resources for social and economic development.

Later in the week, the delegation will also learn about Singapore’s water and flood management from PUB, Singapore's National Water Agency, and rail network from Land Transport Authority – We Keep Your World Moving. We look forward to more exchanges with our friends from Indonesia! 🤝

Curious about Singapore's fintech future? Mr. Reuben Lim, CEO of the Singapore Fintech Association was a guest speaker at our course, Fintech Governance: Building a Sustainable Future of Finance, and he summed it up in three words – Embedded, Growth, Global.

Looking forward to more fruitful discussions with our Pacific Island SCPFriends through the SPARKS package!

The SCP held a Protocol Training Workshop for over 50 Tongan officials, including Her Royal Highness, The Crown Princess Sinaitakala Tuku’aho.

Thanks to our Civil Service College Singapore trainer, Ms Belinda Liok, for conducting the in-country course. We hope this course will support Tonga’s hosting of the 53rd Pacific Islands Forum Leaders Meeting in August 2024!

that SCP works with Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore - MPA to offer courses that showcase Singapore’s maritime experience and expertise? Check out MPA’s post to learn more about some of the maritime courses that we just wrapped up with them! ☺️✨

The 7th Leadership and Economic Diplomacy course starts today! We are so excited to meet the delegation! 🎉

Singapore became the first country in Southeast Asia to implement a carbon tax in 2019, and launched the region’s first carbon exchange in 2023. Just last month, the Singapore Carbon Market Alliance was launched, the first platform in Singapore aimed at helping companies obtain access to high-quality Article 6 carbon credits. Further cementing its leadership, Singapore has signed numerous agreements with developing countries on carbon credit collaboration over the years. 🌱

The SCP recently welcomed 25 officials from 19 countries for the second iteration of its “Introduction to Carbon Markets” course. 🌏 It is our hope to build capacities in carbon trading globally.

Highlights of the course included a learning journey to AirCarbon Exchange, a platform for trading carbon credits and other environmental instruments, and a panel discussion featuring industry experts – Saurabh Joshi, Director at Climate Impact X, and Rajesh Sunderesan, Co-founder of Carbon Impact Capital. A big shout-out to SMU Executive Development - SMU ExD for making these possible, and read on to hear our participants’ takeaways!

🌟 Last month, 15 officials from the Palestinian Authority (PA)'s Ministry of Telecom and Information Technology and Ministry of Finance joined us for a course on "Transforming Public Service with the Power of Artificial Intelligence," conducted under the SCP's Enhanced Technical Assistance Package for the PA. 🚀✨

Click to find out more about their learning journey to Garuda Robotics. A big thank you to IPOS International for making this course a success and Garuda Robotics for hosting the delegation! 🙌📈

Thank you IPOS International for a successful run of the course! 🎉 With expert speakers from the Singapore University of Social Sciences, the Singapore FinTech Association, and the Blockchain Association of Singapore, along with enriching learning journeys, it’s wonderful to see that our participants gained numerous valuable takeaways!

The fourth renewal of the Singapore-United States Third Country Training Programme (SG-US TCTP) took place yesterday! 🥳🇸🇬🤝🇺🇸🥳

We conducted 76 joint courses for more than 2000 officials from across Southeast Asia since the TCTP was established in 2012.

Singapore is committed to continue our robust collaboration with the US to provide capacity building programmes to the region!

Check out our video of the course in March 2024, where Pacific Islands States officials joined a SG-US TCTP course for the first time!

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🎉Today marks a bittersweet goodbye to the NEWater Visitor Centre! It’s been an amazing journey that showcases Singapore’s water management expertise and water sustainability by PUB, Singapore's National Water Agency. As we close this chapter, we’re thrilled for what’s next: welcoming more friends to explore and innovate with us in the world of water! 🌊💧

SCP looks forward to meeting the delegation from Timor-Leste soon! 🤗

The SCP held our 7th Empowering Persons with Disabilities and Special Needs programme recently. Through this, we hope to build an inclusive and caring society! ⚖️🏃‍♀️🚶👩‍🦽👨‍🦯‍👩‍🦯👨‍🦽 🚶‍♀️🏃⚖️

Thank you to our experts from Ministry of Education, Singapore, Pathlight School, SG Enable, RAISE SG, Disabled People's Association Singapore, Foreword Coffee Roasters, Singapore Disability Sports Council, ARTDIS, CaringSG and Civil Service College Singapore for working with us! 🙏

🎊The SCP welcomed 28 Timorese officials who attended the recent STARS: English Language and Communication Skills course!

As part of Singapore’s commitment to support Timor-Leste in preparation for its ASEAN membership, we have shared Singapore’s expertise with 90 Timorese participants under the STARS package. Since 2000, more than 900 Timorese participants have also attended courses and workshops under the SCP! 😲🙏

💌 Swipe to check out some of the highlights!

📢 Coming up: Reflections from Timor-Leste participants in a new course supported by SCP under the STARS package, “English Language and Communication Skills”! 🙌

that over 750 Palestinian officials have benefitted under the SCP’s Enhanced Technical Assistance Package for the Palestinian Authority (ETAP for PA)?

15 course participants from PA are in Singapore this week for the SCP programme "Transforming Public Service with the Power of Artificial Intelligence". Dr Maliki Osman, Second Minister for Foreign Affairs, met them yesterday to learn more about this study visit conducted under ETAP for PA!

🌏✨ The SCP spoke to some of our friends from the Pacific Islands to find out more about the unique aspects and challenges of their homes when they attended our first-ever SPARKS course “Towards Climate Resilience & Urban Sustainability for the Pacific” in May, which welcomed 16 officials from 8 Pacific Islands Forum countries and territories! 🏝️ 🌺🌊

SCP recently concluded the "Integrated Water Resources Management" course with UNICEF and PUB! 🌊 Did you know our collaboration on water-related courses with UNICEF and PUB, Singapore's National Water Agency began in 2017? Since then, we've offered specialised water and sanitation capacity building to over 270 government officials from around the world. 💧

Hear more from Brooke Yamakoshi (UNICEF) and Koh Siong Teck (PUB) on tackling water management challenges!

🤝 The SCP and the Agence Marocaine de la Coopération Internationale (AMCI) jointly conducted a course on Digital Governance and Cybersecurity for 20 government officials from 10 African countries. This is our third course under the Singapore-Morocco Joint Training Programme!

✨ Swipe to learn more about the partnership as well as Singapore’s best practices for digitalisation solutions (GeBIZ by Ministry of Finance (Singapore), Singpass by GovTech (Government Technology Agency of Singapore), and SGQR by Monetary Authority of Singapore and Infocomm Media Development Authority of Singapore) that were shared with the participants!

🥳 The SCP collaborated with Australia (Australian High Commission, Singapore) on the Singapore run of the Health Security Roundtable, organised by NUS Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health.

🤝 Over two days, 18 public health leaders from 10 ASEAN countries discussed leadership and communication strategies to handle infectious disease outbreaks with Ministry of Health, Singapore and other regional experts.

➡️ Hear from the medical experts and our participants!