(VOV) - A meeting was held in Buon Ma Thuot City in Dac Lak province to review the Prime Minister’s project to improve the capacity of administrations at grassroots level in the Central Highlands region. Seven years after carrying out the government’s directive in 2002, the Central Highlands provinces have consolidated and improved the quality of their staff. To date, the region has trained 13,000 full-time employees in charge of communal and ward issues, 2,000 of them women accounting for 17.3%. 3,600 of the public servants are also ethnic minority people, making up 26.8%. More than 11,000 cadres at grass roots level have been trained and listed on the personnel master-plan, 2,600 of them from ethnic minorities. Over 300 staff from district and provincial agencies has been sent to work in communes, most of them in key positions. At the meeting, the participants put forward a number of proposals to continue strengthening the local administrations in the Central Highlands from now until 2020. They mainly focused on policy to increase the knowledge of those who work in religious and ethnic areas. The region’s leaders also asked several agencies to draw up plans on continued funding so the region can build or upgrade offices.