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The United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the
Pacific (ESCAP) established the ESCAP HRD Award in 1990. The Award is
presented annually in recognition of exemplary work in the field of
human resources development (HRD). It is open to all those in the region
who have undertaken practical research, training or other innovative
work in HRD. Each year, the Award carries a different theme related
to HRD and it has a prize of US$ 30,000. The ESCAP HRD Award is administered in pursuance of the Jakarta Plan of Action on Human Resources Development in the ESCAP Region. That Plan provides guidelines for transforming the principles of HRD into practice. It constitutes a policy framework within which Governments, with the support of regional and international organizations and other agents of development, formulate and execute policies and programmes to address the particular needs, and respond to the individual priorities, of countries. One of the major concerns of the Jakarta Plan of Action is to promote research and training on key HRD issues as a basis for national policy-making. In response to this concern, the ESCAP HRD Award was established as a means of encouraging exemplary research, training and other innovative achievement in the field of HRD.
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