At a two-day conference on the realisation of a project “Presenting a modern concept of human resource management in the Serbian Ministry of the Interior”, Kojic said that the project will have an important role in the realisation of the aforementioned goal.
During the next two years the project will be implemented by the Ministry together with the Geneva Centre for Democratic Control of Armed Forces (DCAF).
Following the presentation of the project, financed by the Swedish International Development Agency (SIDA), Kojic and DCAF director Ambassador Theodor Winkler signed a Memorandum of Understanding.
Kojic reiterated the complexity and importance of the issue of modern human resource management, a crucial area for the reform of the Serbian security system, that is, for the improvement of the system and working environment conditions in the relevant Ministry.
He observed that the project will last two years, during which a strategy and an action plan in this remit will be adopted.
The Assistant Minister said that human resources management is a very complex multi-disciplinary function, which must have a strategic position in the organisation of work.
The implementation of the project includes more than 30 activities over the next two years, during which the first strategy for human resources management and the action plan will be adopted, Kojic said.
Winkler noted that the beginning of work on the joint project is significant for Serbia's European path, and cooperation with the DCAF as a professional organisation is important for the implementation of planned reforms in the Serbian interior ministry.
We have cooperated with Serbia in the field of security for a decade already, more precisely since 2000. We carry out a series of projects with our Serbian partners, from 80 to 100 per year, and this is the second project with the Serbian interior ministry. An additional motivation is the fact that Serbia is now a candidate country for EU membership, he pointed out.
Local DCAF project manager Nemanja Milosevic explained that the project formulates a strategic framework and directions of development of human resource management through the achievement of goals such as creating a strategy for a period of three to five years, raising the level of expertise and improvement of internal communication in the Serbian Interior Ministry.