A major barrier that affects proper service delivery down to the Ward levels is the lack of communication between the Local Level Government (LLG) president, managers, LLG sector officers and District Administrations.
This was one of the main challenges identified during the recent East New Britain Provincial Administration (ENBPA) annual LLG Leaders’ Conference that was held at the Gazelle International hotel.
President of Sinivit LLG, Boniface Gerep, who was a participant representative during the conference, stated that communication is lacking in all levels of government.
“All LLGs have their own issues such as not working together and the lack of communication between the presidents, managers, and sector heads.”
“Therefore, this meeting has united us to work out our differences and work together to deliver services to the people in the respective LLGs.”
Gerep also made mention that this is the first time for most of the LLG leaders to attend such a program and thanked the ENBPA for the four- day workshop as they have learned a lot of things.
On behalf of the respective LLG Presidents and Managers, Gerep thanked the provincial administration through the District and LLG affairs division for the conference.
“We have come up with some ways forward to address these challenges and now we have been empowered one more time and I encourage all presidents and LLGs to take heed of what we have learnt and implement them in our LLG Administrations.”
He also made a call to both the Provincial and District Administration to make improvements in the release of funds stating that there is funding from the national government and other donors, however, has not been released to the wards and LLGs.
Meanwhile, ENB Acting Administrator, Levi Mano, on behalf of the public service, acknowledged the LLG leaders for their commitment towards the exercise in making their time available to attend the four-day conference.
He reminded the leaders that they are public servants and must always at the back of the people to always rediscover and rethink the way they do things, behave, and think and these four days is the time for that movement to start.
“I encourage you leaders to identify those in your communities and engage them to run programs that will benefit and give back funding to the people.”