Commissioners Workshop Concluded In Bor
The Finn Church Aid has concluded a five-day workshop for Jonglei State county commissioners initiated by the Lutheran World Federation (LWF) on awareness and planning on how they can handle their county hazards. 28 April 2013 By Jacob Achiek Jok BOR, 27 April 2013 [Gurtong] – The commissioner of Twic East County Dau Akoi Jurkuch said that topic was about disaster awareness and on how to plan for contingency planning in the counties. “These topics were brought to identify seven hazards in Jonglei state and their mechanism on this disaster,” Dau Akoi said. The commissioner said that they have learned more about how they could handle the contingency planning. “We know how to prepare the county contingency planning at the county level as the stakeholders of the counties and from there we will become as the government of the county itself with our all NGOs,” said the commissioner. Akoi said that when they talked about hazards they highlighted some of the contingencies as ethnic conflict, flood, cattle raiding, political conflict, and disease outbreak and animal diseases. He said in the case of flood: “If we see that there will be much rain in the area such as a lot of rain in East Africa that may result to river Nile overflow we should plan on how we will be able to prevent it happen by mobilizing the community and construct the dykes.” The objective of the workshop was to provide tools for the development of the county level plans, to increase participant’s knowledge of contingency planning. The state governor Kuol Manyang Juuk at the closing day ceremony encouraged the trainees to maintain their attendance during the processes of the workshop so that their facilitators get encouraged. The governor said that there is no government work without supportive branches like Judiciary, Executive and Legislature. The program was being funded by LWF and being facilitated by Finn Church Aid through the help from South Sudan Relief and Rehabilitation Commission (SSRRC). The workshop was targeting five counties of Duk, Bor, Twic East, Uror and Fangak County inwhich all the commissioners were present except the commissioner from Fangak who was presented by the county executive director. Posted in: Home, Governance -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "South Sudan Info - The Kob" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
