From PAUL OATES
Has anyone actually thought about recruiting and employing qualified Papua New Guineans for the work on offer?
e.g. Target the aid programmes to the local talent available.
Why isn't there an 'independent' recruitment programme set up under the AusAID umbrella to ensure that 'qualified' PNG people are available for each position before it is offered to a high priced overseas consultancy firm who then employs overseas staff who have very high 'on costs'?
If there are no qualified PNG available, train them up ASAP under a contract that has a set sunset clause in it and won't be fully paid for unless the prior benchmarks for achievement are met.
The whole AusAID programme has so far seemed to be run on a scatter gun approach.
Why not provide a supplement to all PNG public servants who are prepared to sign a binding agreement not to be involved in any corrupt practice and to report those they find breaking the law?
If the PNG public service were to be paid a reasonable wage they would not have to rely on corruption to feed and look after their family.
Why not concentrate on health or education and ensure these principle areas are working across the nation?
Talkfest's are expensive 'no brainers'!
The PNG government is going to increase the number of ministries (and therefore public servants), instead of making sure those they already employ are actually able to do what they are paid to do.
Clearly the AusAID funding needs to be targeted at national achievement and not local appeasement.
A monster has been created that no one as yet seems willing or able to control.
AusAID, with all its noble ideals, has been run for many years as an extension of the Australian social security system. It has operated as a scheme to export half-baked, irrelevant and substandard Australian public servants to Pacific Island states, including PNG, to set up their castles and behave like royalty, when they are in fact low-life ignoramuses.
ReplyDeletehas everyone forgotten how successful the localisation program of the 70s was? a small number of failures and a few partial, but on the whole it worked. I myself localised my jobs 11 times in the public service, in local government and in the private sector.
ReplyDeleteAusAid could do well to learn from the past
full support to Paul!
The DCT Review has said something in a big way.....right now AusAID is not as influential as it used to be (1975) regarding how PNG develops; and the most alarming notion is that the government of PNG is either. With development been directly impacted by these 'big' investments into non-renewable resources - i am horrified by the fact that the development agenda will be headed by the likes of Oil Search, Exon Mobil and the Chinese Government. It seems they are more aware of the changes that will come about than the average villager......
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