Vision 2050 plan needs more work, commitment

 PAPUA New Guinea’s master development plan, PNG Vision 2050, is much talked about and preached at the National Government level but lacks attention at lower levels of government.  

Since 2008 officials from the National Task Force project team visited the regions, provinces and districts seeking input from the wider community but after that there has not been any awareness and annual progressive updates undertaken and reports made available to provinces and districts. 

It is still unknown if all lower levels of government have aligned their development plans to the Vision 2050 plan. 

The failure on this part will certainly contribute to the ineffective focus by lower level governments towards the collective effort needed to achieve the national plan. 

In this regard the Government must revisit the linkages and delegation and hold accountable the provincial administrators as key drivers and custodians of the Vision 2050 in their respective regions, provinces and districts. 

The provincial administrators must take full audit of the situation in regards to all of the key development indexes as highlighted in the Vision 2050 plan for their respective regions, provinces and local level areas. 

The enforcement on linkages between National Planning Office (NPO) and the provincial administrators will effectively impact the NPO’s better coordination, monitoring, tracking and reporting of a true development performance progress of all the country’s development indexes and targets we have agreed and signed with the United Nations. 

Leaders at all levels of government must be made to sign an agreement with the National Government to commit their support for the implementation of the Vision 2050 plan so that the people are confident their leaders at all levels are doing all their best to realise our dream. 

Strategic Observer 

Waigani, NCD