In a Country, Gifted with 800 plus language's, and a thousand tribes of epic cultured proportions, being a leader to lead is hardly a child's play.
Our Melanesian upbringing, to a greater degree of cultural influences, denotes the ever challenging art of policy influence and implementation in Papua New Guinea.
Australia being our closest and colonial peer , has injected economic and foreign policies that promotes bilateral opportunities, for regional growth and economic expansion.
Papua New Guinea is a land of unexpected challenges, a myriad of social and political paths that requires a structured approach and cultural grasping of its people. The Local level governments in my country are typically a political pontoon for agendas of self interest, mismanagement Of public funds and being a foot hold for misadministrarive exploits. Being a leader is being emotionally, socially and intellilectually visible to the needs of the people.
Policy making is culturally grained , inherently tribal and politically correct with its people's daily livelihood. Cities are a political metropolis of a nation's birth,growth and relationship.
Policy making is a leadership commitment, getting to the bottom of the pool of society, engaging in real life interactions that absorbs the good and bad , being unapologetically as civil servants of state , service must render empathy.
The required skill of diplomacy and it's people centered dialogue is crucial in this age, with AI driven technology and space age incentives, the people who are less involved and rural based , must be recipients of credible policy making, better decision-making, to engage as better informed communities, in the government's long and short term planning.
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