Dept launches five-year corporate strategic plan

THE Department of Mining, Policy and Geohazards Management has launched its five-year corporate and strategic plan.
Department secretary Shadrach Himata said during the launching in Port Moresby yesterday that the corporate plan was to move the department forward and the strategic plan was to help deliver its vision.
“The plans define the key performance indicators and allocation of results and the control mechanism to guide the implementation of strategies to achieve the operational manuals of the department,” he said.
Himata said the department was formed in 2008 after a 2004 Cabinet decision to have the former department of mining become the Mineral Resource Authority.
“We know there are directives and instructions from the Government on what we need to do as a department moving forward so we decided that we need to wax up some things,” he said.
Himata said they came up with the team and drew up the corporate and strategic plans.
“This is for us to make sure that we deliver according to the Government’s expectations,” he said.
“So we set ourselves a vision, at ground zero, to move the department forward, came up with a mission to deliver the mandate of the government and a vision to set a legislative policy and state-of-the-art geohazard system so that our nation benefits.”