Local Development : NASLA Trains NW/SW Regional Elected Officials

 A three-day workshop launched on 26 January, 2022, in Buea, has pooled elected officials and senior executives of Regional and local Councils from the North West and South West Regions to imbibe functional principles of serving the public.
Opening the workshop under the theme:” Managing Regions with Special Status”, the Governor of the South West Region, Bernard Okalia Bilai, who sat in for the Minister of Decentralisation and Local Development, urged the participants to ensure they deliver much to the public so as to convince them that the government meant a lot of good by decentralising the State.
Addressing the participants, the Director General of NASLA, Tanyitiku E. Bayee, explained that the National School for Local Administration supported by the British High Commission were the brain behind the workshop. He told the press that it was not absolutely necessary for elected personalities to show any specific qualification before postulating for any elective position but that with in-service seminars and workshops like the one in question, the officials could very well master their domains to better serve the public.
For day one of the three-day workshop, participants were drilled on the organization of administrative services, management of human resources, role and functions of Regional and Local elected officials, management of regional development projects, the functions of senior executives of the Region and Local councils, the art of negotiation, citizen participation in local development, design and implementation of a development s...