Fix division of jurisdictions

Division of jurisdictions and structures between government departments and provincial governments is a big gap and challenge for decentralising government services and various functions. This significantly affects execution of set Government policies, projects and programmes.
Some good policies and programmes to be implemented at the provincial or district level have been untouched or have failed in their implementation process so far.
Most departments have been facing tough challenges in trying to work in partnership with provincial governments in implementing departments’ uniform policies/programmes. There is poor networking and coordination.
All provincial governments have their own internal structures, policies, programmes and projects in administration and service delivery.
It would be much better if government departments can only build networks/partnership with the right existing and legitimate authorities such as district development authorities (DDAs) and others to promote partnership development approaches.
The departments must also fund and provide technical support or advice and training to the provincial governments, in terms of partnership, to build strong teamwork and better coordination in service delivery.
In turn, provincial governments can align some of their development work to the annual and corporate plans of government departments.
They can all have uniformity of developmental or partnership alignment frameworks in each of their working internal plans.
However, discontinuity and failure of partnership can only be caused or determined by poor coordination, ignorance of conformance to requirements, and poor monitoring and evaluation.

Fenebe Ibusubu
Port Moresby
NCD