Central to improve budget management

By MOUA OMOA
THE Central province administration’s planning division is working towards improving its district and LLG offices to better handle and manage budget increases this year.
Using Rigo district as a model to carry out this improvement strategy, Central planning adviser Martin Giyomatala said districts needed to have proper facilities in order to implement required services better.
With increased DSIP, JDP&BPC and LLG allocations totalling more than K15 million this year, Giyomatala said funding would not be an excuse and district administrators and LLG managers should improve their facilities to implement and provide basic services effectively to people.
“This type of money has never been given to the districts and LLGs before, and now we hope it will be used to implement all the development plans for the next three years,” he said.
“At this stage, as part of the normal administration process, we are conducting review workshops with the five districts to check how far they have gone and what they have completed with regards to the five-year district development plans that were launched in 2010.
“Making assessments with ranking from one to 100% varying from one district to another, we have concluded that the majority of the districts have achieved 50% or less of their development plans mainly due to financial constraints and a lack of manpower capacity,” Giyomatala said.
The Central administration is using the “out-growth model” process, concentrating on the main facilities to ensure that they were fully functional.
To enhance the manpower capacity, they have now embarked on manpower audits for each of the five districts and the intention is to move 85% of staff from the provincial office to the headquarters.
They hope the exercise will be completed before the end of the year with further consultation with the department of personnel management.