The PNG Correctional Services have partnered with the Pacific Institute of Leadership and Governance to provide a training pathway for PNGCS staff.
This partnership will see executive staff from PILAG undergoing leadership and management training at PILAG to ensure they are better qualified in their level of command.
This is part of the institutions drive to build the capacity of its senior officers.
PNGCS Commissioner Stephen Pokanis said, they are appointing commanding officers to take up roles at the executive level.
In an executive meeting, they decided on providing a training pathway for emerging and current leaders, who can command at the Prison level and also in executive levels in the future.
“In the future we are looking at uniformity, where officers who are appointed or promoted, would have special skills, experience and qualifications that should bring them to that level of command,” Commissioner Pokanis said.
The Commissioner said this training partnership with PILAG has to continue annually.
The PNGCS is also seeking assistance from PILAG to carry out a training need analysis, as it is critical for them to identify gaps and put in place proper organizational training plan, to assist in career development of CS personnel.
A cheque of K200 000 was presented to PILAG, as tuition fees for the executive staff, last Friday.
PILAG CEO Micheal Barobe thanked PNGCS for their confidence in PILAG to roll out this training.
“It’s all about giving capacity and competency to our people, so that they deliver government goods and services in a way our people benefit,” CEO Barobe said.
The CEO further assured the PNGCS Commissioner that the training will be delivered, to give capacity to senior executive staff.
He further added that PILAG is going forward with various reforms, to ensure People are appointed into the Public Service, based on experience and qualifications.
They are also working together with international partners to adopt their course structures, and contextualize into PNG homegrown courses, based on PNG context.
Earlier: https://insidepng.com/pilag-partners-nri-for-quality-research-training/