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Bai: Reforms need major fixing
By ALISON ANIS
THE decentralised system of the Government is not working, chairman of
the Public Sector Reform Advisory Group (PSRAG) Brown Bai has said.
He said the reforms needed a “major overhaul” and modifications to suit
present conditions.
Mr Bai said many issues of national importance were left unattended
while the system was compounded with new problems and interventions.
“This calls for real reforms in our decentralised system of Government,”
he said.
Mr Bai was speaking yesterday during the launch and presentation of the
second part of the report on public sector reform titled “Improved
Decentralisation”.
“We can claim that PNG is rapidly developing but certain fundamental
questions needed answers,” he said.
These pressing issues, he said, can be addressed by looking at the 28
recommendations in the report aimed at:
*Better participation and control in the
community;
*More affordable, cost-effective and efficient
system of service delivery; and
*A system which works, was understood and
involved people.
“The recommendations calls for major redirection of resources and
redefinition of political responsibility which are fundamental to the
long-term benefit of the nation and its people,” he said.
The report was put together by the PSRAG and proposed a home-grown
system of government to suit the rapidly developing and changing
conditions, at the same time it noted that PNG was unique with diverse
languages and cultures where no group dominates.
PSRAG was first established by the former prime minister Sir Mekere
Morauta in 2002 to give independent advice to the Government on public
sector reform and had 12 appointed members, who represented different
sectors of the community with expertise in certain areas of government.
 
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