UNPHU and MOPC sign training contracts for partners in the Master of Administrative and Public Management

Universidad Nacional Pedro Henríquez Ureña (UNPHU) and the Ministry of Public Works and Communications (MOPC) signed a training agreement for five collaborators in the program of high-potential managers for public management, Master in Administrative Law and Public Management.

The master’s degree is aimed mainly at public employees, as well as legal professionals working in the different fields of administration, and all those who seek to expand their knowledge of the law and the functioning of public administrations and their management.

With this contract both institutions seek to enable participants to develop knowledge, attitudes, skills, and working methods for the exercise of a highly trained public administration. Participants may develop competencies for the analysis, planning, organization, direction, control and evaluation of institutions, programs, strategies and/or public policies.

The signing of the framework agreement took place in the rectory of the university on June 28th 2022, between architect Miguel Fiallo Calderón, rector at UNPHU and Germán de los Santos, in charge of the Contracts Department, representing the Minister of Public Works and Procurement (MOPC), Engineer Deligne Ascensión Burgos.

Dr. Leonor Farray Bergés, Vice Chancellor of Postgraduate and Continuing Education, was present at the signing. 

On the MOPC

The Ministry of Public Works and Communications was created in 1854 under the name of GUERRA, MARINA AND PUBLIC WORKS, on December 28, 1959, and became known as SECRETARY OF STATE OF PUBLIC WORKS AND COMMUNICATIONS, name given by law on November 28, 1966. Finally, through Decree 56-10 of February 8, 2010, which changes the names of secretaries into ministries, the Ministry of Public Works, and Communications (SEOPC) is changed from the State Secretariat of Public Works and Communications (MOPC) to the Ministry of Public Works and Communications (MOPC).   

Its mission is to manage the Public Works and Communications sector, through the regulation, planning, construction and maintenance of the physical infrastructure required for the sustainable socio-economic development of the Dominican Republic.