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Government of South Sudan (Juba) [21/11/12]
By Alnour Onyongo, Justin Jada and Simon Owaka
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The acting Minister for Labour, Public Service and Human Resource
Development, Hon Kwong Danhier Gatluak, said that effective service
delivery will only be possible through an adequate pool of a highly
skilled, professional, motivated, productive and well managed civil
service.
Hon Kwong said five decades of war had ruined civil service
structures and precipitated a brain drain of South Sudan's highly
qualified, experienced and competent professionals in all sectors who
either joined the liberation movement or fled the country altogether for
their own safety and livelihood.
"In so doing, they left a very big vacuum that could only be filled
by largely less experienced, competent and qualified personnel. This
resulted in poor delivery of basic services to the citizenry meant to
ensure their wellbeing," he said.
The acting minister was speaking when he officially opened the 9th
Meeting of the Regional Capacity Building (RCB) Project at a Juba hotel.
The RCB is a 5-year capacity building initiative funded by the Canadian
International Development Agency (CIDA) and the Public Administration
and Leadership Academy (PALAMA) of South Africa as the implementing
agency.
Noting that the project was coming to an end in 2013, Hon Kwong said
the Ministry would continue with capacity building efforts at national,
state and local levels of government.
The minister urged civil servants and other stakeholders involved in
the management of the project to own it by implementing aspects which
would address South Sudan's specific needs.
"We should shift from supply-driven to demand-driven capacity development initiatives," he said.
He further urged the implementers to focus on results that would have
a lasting impact on eradicating poverty, reducing inequality, promoting
sustainable development and enhancing local capacities in line with the
priorities and policies in the South Sudan Development Plan.
Speaking at the function, the acting Director General for Human
Resource Development in the Ministry, Madam Sunday Aggrey Jaden, said
the aim of the RCB Project was to improve public service capacity
management and leadership capability for better service delivery through
training interventions in Burundi, Rwanda and South Sudan.
Madam Sunday said the ultimate goal of the project was to achieve
institutional capacity development, adding that planned outputs of the
project were curriculum development and training capacity in the
participating countries.
Also present at the function was Dr Mary L. Ledwaba, Chief Director (Executive Development) at PALAMA.
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