EES Vows To Streamline NGO Operations For Equal Service Delivery In a bid to ensure even distribution of essential services to the people of Eastern Equatoria State, the Government has vowed to reorganize all NGOs for effective service delivery; the State Governor, Louis Lobong Lojore has affirmed today. 20 July 2011 EES Vows To Streamline NGO Operations For Equal Service Delivery State Governor, Louis Lobong Lojore addressing the media [©Gurtong]
By Peter Lokale Nakimangole TORIT, 20th July, 2011 [Gurtong] - In a bid to ensure even distribution of essential services to the people of Eastern Equatoria State, the Government has vowed to reorganize all NGOs for effective service delivery; the State Governor, Louis Lobong Lojore has affirmed today. Lobong says that South Sudan’s post independence era renders the new nation vulnerable if continuous efforts are not jointly driven. He advises that the Government of the Republic of South Sudan must endeavour to focus on delivering basic services for her citizens who struggled for freedom and liberty. He called for joint efforts from the international community in mobilising resources towards development of the Africa’s newest State, while similarly appealing to development partners working alongside the State Government to execute their programs in a transparent and accountable manner. The State Deputy Governor, Hon. Nartisio Loluke Manir concurred with the Governor’s move. According to Hon. Loluke, this would guarantee equitable service delivery efforts as their operations would impact each of the 8 Counties in Eastern Equatoria. Loluke said that the State Government has placed a number of strategies to ensure NGOs fairly and uniformly operate in all Counties from now. “There are some Counties with a huge number of NGOs... their presence deprives other Counties from developing and other essential services. This is an unfair practice. This shows that NGOs choose where they want to operate without consultation with State authority,” he protested. Earlier on, an Advisor on political Affairs to a Dutch international organization (SNV) in South Sudan, Imke Van called on the Government to regulate NGOs operation in the region. While addressing a NGOs coordination meeting at Torit Diocesans Hall in Torit earlier this year, Imke stressed that there was a serious need for regulation so as to guide NGOs programming processes. He recommended a need for registration at State level and need to have focal point or one-stop window for NGOs at the State level. Imke clarified that by implementing this move, it will serve as conformity to South Sudan labour laws by the NGOs. Imke also calls for a need to collate and regularly update the various data relating to NGOs and central data-bank in the State Ministry of Finance, Trade & Industry. The SNV advisor underscored the rationale for coordination with the Government, while referring to the Paris Declaration/Accra Agenda which calls for aid effectiveness, ownership and capacity. He added that programme alignment and harmonization is the most considered tool apart from healthy development dialogue process. “If this strategy is successful, resource investment flows and accountability spinoffs should be included as a rationale for coordination with the Government,” Imke stressed. He also urges that the Government needs to put in place relevant policies and laws that seek to ensure friendly environment for effective operation of NGOs in the region for better service provision. Posted in: Home, Foreign Relations, Foreign Aid/Assistance Comments RSS comment feed 20/07/2011, 2:54 PM - Posted by Urumtyepy Nyathuthy Uyin Mr.Governor ,talking without actions will not make one a true leader.even if you continue to regale readers in the media ,strickly speaking not any action or decision of all what you used to talk about, has never been seen or materialized. Poor service delivery,tribalism , favouritism ,disunity and the likes in the state is actually the order of the day .You talked of the services to go to all counties across the states ,if asked that how are many counties EES has? .There will be no clear answer to this let alone the insecurity and the loss innocent lives in the state . Your government has failed completely to bring the different ethnic groups in the state to co-exist.How would the people of EES restore trust in your government. Thanks Urumtyepy 21/07/2011, 8:41 AM - Posted by Nyero Anthony Kenyi I think leaders should start working their talks. We were waiting for the new nation and it is here. Lets biud on what we have, emabark on good governance, service provision, uphold human rights, improved rule of law, and try by any means to be self reliance, previousley we depended on foriegn aids, donations,now that we have a new nation those donation will turn out to Loans, world bank will give us loans depending on the level of governace we have, human rights, rule of laws, our nature of investment and corruption. We must also note that International monitory fund IMF will come monitor our expenditure. Fine! there is a new nation but a very big challenge lay our way, we need to unit, cooperate and avoid negative critism, Lets put our hand s together in support our leaders in biulding our state. Yours Nyero Anthony Pa ngidi Add Comment Log in to post a comment. If you are not a Gurtong member yet, register here. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "JFD info" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/jfdinfo?hl=en.
