Abstract
The public sector is facing renewed pressure to improve efficiency and to better meet the needs of people in using public services. To implement one of the four pillars of public administration reform, improving the quality of civil servants is a prior breakthrough solution. The application of the capacity framework to human resource management in the public sector has been adopted by many countries around the world. For the Vietnamese public sector, the use of capacity frameworks in human resource management and the improvement of leadership quality is an urgent and central requirement. In this study, by using quantitative and qualitative research methods with the research objectives are the leaders of departments and sectors in Hoa Binh province, the author has built up a capacity framework for localleaders of the public administration sector, which associates with the province characteristics, as the basis for developing policies, methods of leadership development in the framework of capacity.