Gwangju City Announces Open Recruitment for 2nd Welfare Cooperation Committee Members

Gwangju City Hall

[Asia Economy Honam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Park Seon-gang] Gwangju Metropolitan City announced on the 19th that it will publicly recruit about 100 members for the ‘2nd Welfare Cooperation Committee’ to establish a city-wide welfare governance system through civil-government-political cooperation throughout the entire welfare policy process.

Gwangju City, the first in the nation, has been organizing and operating the ‘1st Welfare Cooperation Committee’ (24 members) and subcommittees (9 subcommittees with 205 members) with a two-year term since 2018, in accordance with the ‘Basic Ordinance on Welfare Cooperation’ enacted on March 1, 2018.

At the end of last month, the Basic Ordinance on Welfare Cooperation was fully revised to enable more efficient operation of the Welfare Cooperation Committee, expanding the committee to operate with up to 100 members.

The welfare cooperation committee members selected through this recruitment will include welfare field workers, citizens, city council members, and city officials, totaling up to 100 people. The committee will propose, collect, and coordinate various agendas such as welfare issues and ways to strengthen publicness, review policy formulation and implementation, and reflect them in policies, thereby performing deliberative functions.

The recruitment targets are citizens or welfare service users, representatives and workers of institutions and organizations related to social welfare projects, and those with extensive knowledge and experience in fields such as the elderly, disabled, children, and youth. Those who are participating in three or more city-affiliated committees simultaneously are excluded.

Applications can be submitted by downloading the application form from the announcement section on the Gwangju City website and sending it via email by 6 p.m. on the 2nd of next month.

Gwangju City plans to make the final decision through the ‘Committee Selection Committee’ next month, considering gender balance so that no specific gender exceeds 60%, and fair distribution of personnel across welfare fields, based on application forms and qualification requirements.

Meanwhile, since September 2018, Gwangju City has proposed a total of about 60 welfare agendas through the 1st Welfare Cooperation Committee and subcommittees for the elderly, disabled, childcare, and others. Additionally, to share welfare issues and seek solutions through public discussions, it has held about 10 workshops and forums.

Park Hyang, Director of the Welfare and Health Bureau of Gwangju City, said, “Gwangju City was the first in the nation to legally institutionalize civil-government-political cooperative administration and has operated the most exemplary welfare governance by communicating regularly with the field over the past two years. We recognized how important welfare cooperation is in the process of turning agendas into policies. We hope that many welfare project stakeholders and citizens with the capacity and passion to innovate Gwangju’s welfare will participate.”

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