Management looked at

THE East New Britain administration (ENBPA) has produced a submission paper as a policy directive to improve ward governance and administration. The submission was brought before the East New Britain Assembly last week by ENB deputy governor and Bitapaka local level government (LLG) president Cosmas Bauk. Bauk said there was a need for a clear strategy on ward governance and administration with a focus on improving ward governance and administration units in ENB. The submission also featured strategies on autonomy which is an agenda that has been pursued by the provincial government over the past decade. The provincial assembly endorsed the paper and implement it. Bauk said it captured the ward structure under the ward development committee and remuneration of its members because currently, only the ward members and ward recorders were being compensated while the others were performing their duties voluntarily.
He said wards were where the people and resources were and they needed more focus to strengthen their systems, structures and human resources to enhance development initiatives to make them more self-reliant and autonomous. “ENB is moving forward and we cannot continue to sit with problems and wait on the national government to give funding, but instead, the provincial government should act now or nothing will change if the province continues with the present trend of doing things.”