Damyang-gun Holds Inauguration Ceremony for Policy Research Group 'Policy Wave'

MZ Generation Public Officials Participate in Discussions and Field Trips

Expectations for Innovative Policies Beyond Traditional Frameworks

On the 21st, Damyang-gun, Jeollanam-do announced that it held the launching ceremony of the civil servant policy research group 'Policy Wave,' which works with MZ generation public officials, and has embarked on discovering innovative policy ideas for the development of the county administration.

The launching ceremony took place at 2 p.m. on the 20th at the Damyang Eco Center Education Hall, attended by about 40 people including Lee Byeong-no, the head of Damyang-gun, directors of departments and divisions, and members of the research group.

The Damyang-gun policy research group has been operating since 2010 to support various policy planning learning and research activities for county public officials in order to discover excellent policies.

The new name of the policy research group, 'Policy Wave,' signifies spreading an atmosphere of continuously researching and discovering excellent policies through the activities of the research group.

Especially this year, the policy research group was formed mainly with public officials with less than 10 years of service, allowing young public officials to freely propose creative policy ideas without being bound by existing frameworks. Directors, division heads, and section chiefs participate as mentors to guide the direction of policy planning.

The research areas include ▲ hometown love donation system ▲ rural income increase ▲ elderly welfare and care ▲ population increase/living population ▲ youth job creation ▲ development of new tourism content ▲ climate change response ▲ improvement of residents' living conditions ▲ organizational culture innovation, among others.

Participants will proactively discover and propose policies that can improve the quality of life of residents through policy discussions, benchmarking visits, mentoring, and more over the next six months. In the second half of this year, they will evaluate the research report and hold a presentation contest, awarding prize money and incentives.

Lee Byeong-no, the head of the county, said, “Excellent policy proposals discovered by the policy research group will be actively reflected in the county administration,” and added, “We hope many innovative policies that will lead the future of Damyang-gun will be discovered.”

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