We need good governance

The National Letters

GOVERNANCE failures and the lack of accountability is common everywhere in the world today, especially in developing countries such as Papua New Guinea.
These results in high.
Refer to Transparency International for country ranking.
It is time we develop effective institutional capacity programmes in all levels of government. Let’s consider programmes such as:

  •  TRAINING and capacity-building awareness for individuals and organisations on good governance and accountability;
  •  PRIORITISING stakeholder participation on project discussions. When landowners are ignored and aren’t prioritised, there will always be problems;
  •  HAVING action plans in place to deal with implementing policies and facing challenges instead of operating on an ad hoc basis;
  •  HAVING effective management of systems and monitoring and evaluation systems;
  •  ENCOURAGING participation of both genders with an emphasis on sustainability; and,
  •  EFFECTIVE reporting on result-based management.
    In order to achieve these, I created Pacific Partners Development Institute to contribute to developing human skills training and certification programmes to achieve one of strategy in Vision 2050 – Pillar 1: Human Capital Development in Papua New Guinea.
    I am encouraging professionals in the country y to contribute to developing effective governance and accountability systems to eradicate corruption.
    Most liberal democratic societies and institutions often set the standards in comparing performance and I think PNG should do that.

Jerry Marai,
Waigan