
Senior Minister His Excellency Ieng Mouly, Chair of the National AIDS Authority, presided over the authority’s January 2020 monthly meeting at the National AIDS Authority Headquarters on the morning of January 30, 2020, with the participation of all the Excellencies, Lok Chumteavs, ladies, and gentlemen, the NAA officials.
At the commencement of his speech, His Excellency the Senior Minister welcomed and complimented all the officials for their active and successful works. He also urged them to carry on striving together to improve the institution and gain the leadership’s trust. He then permitted His Excellency Chhim Khin Dareth, Secretary General of the National AIDS Authority, to present a progress report on the work results, achieved by the authority’s top management and Secretariat General in the response to HIV/AIDS, together with improvement and challenges during the month of January 2020, and set targets for next month.
After listening to the report, His Excellency the Senior Minister laid down measures and offered advice to the authority’s top management and officials on work performance process, specifically about how to consolidate internal solidarity and unity. He added that all the top managers should set themselves as model by working tenaciously with higher discipline. Moreover, one should be present at work as determined by law to well perform assigned tasks in line with the distribution of roles.
• The NAA Telegram leadership group should include vice chairmen, advisers, assistants, secretary general, deputy secretary general, and deputy department heads to make it easy to communicate, share information, and participate in various events. As for invitations or announcements made through this Telegram, they should be considered as official documents.
• As regards an application for leave, it should be attached with an attestation letter issued by the Administration and Finance Department’s Personnel Office, indicating the day(s) of leave already taken and the remaining days. In case there is no clear attestation from the Personnel Office, no leave will be granted.
• The Secretariat General should regularly provide activities reports every Friday, and the Administration and Finance Department should prepare reports on personnel situation, exit and entry letters, missions, attendance lists, cash available, and balances of national budget and financial aid. Regarding monthly reports, the NAA vice-chair and Secretariat General should present them to the Cabinet on the 22nd every month. Concerning inadequate contract employees, their capabilities should be built in AIDS-related English language and technical skills. The Secretariat General should organize opening training courses and track and re-evaluate to see whether their contracts should be renewed or terminated at the mid of 2020.
Afterwards, His Excellency the Senior Minister permitted the following Excellencies and Lok Chumteavs, the vice-chairs, to voice their views:
1. Lok Chumteav Sim Kheng Kham requested that reports on Party Works, political education works, aide memoire dissemination be included and that AIDS and gender education linked.
2. His Excellency Kong Rotha advised that the Secretariat General should send the reports regularly to the Cabinet, which has the only role of gathering and sending them to the permanent vice-chair for review. Moreover, all the departments should attentively look into the reports from all the departments prior to sending them to the Secretariat General for examination. Every report should be computerized and plagiarism is prohibited.
3. His Excellency Chea Por suggested that the contents on the National AIDS Authority’s official Facebook should not be posted on private accounts. Doing so leads Facebook viewers to see that the contents and activities are overlapping. He also asked that Facebook readers help tick like and share.
4. His Excellency Sim
Kim Sen asked His Excellency the Secretary General to update the composition of the NAA Committee. With regard to reading Facebook contents, he mentioned that it was up to the readers to tick like or share.
At the end, His Excellency the Senior Minister advised His Excellency the Secretary General to organize the training course into three levels; that is from the levels of deputy secretary general to department head for appointed officials to build up their capabilities. As for all the reports, they should be sent to the Cabinet as hard copies and to the Telegram group as soft copies.
Specifically, as regards the reports on Party Work, His Excellency the Senior Minister advised that the Party Work reported should not be mixed up with the work carried out by the Royal Government. Those responsible for information technology should try to fast track the dissemination of information by going to obtain it from the Cabinet.