“This is yet another achievement for the Department of Education as we continue to make the system and processes work in harmony with the provinces.”
The MoA is a government decision directing the Department of Education to decentralize the management of GTFS which comprises of the Cash, Infrastructure, and the Teaching & Learning components. Under that decision: five (5) provinces have already signed the MoA and are now managing their components starting in 2019.
The MoA signing today officially begins the process of decentralization to East Sepik Province. Other provinces are Enga, New Ireland, Morobe, East New Britain and Milne Bay.
All responsibilities on the implementation of the policy, monitoring of and ensuring compliance to standards and guidelines as specified in the GTFS Policy and its Implementation Guide rests with the Provincial Administration.
When the Marape/Steven Government came into Office on 30th of May 2019, it reconsidered the last Government’s TFF Policy, reviewed it, and made the education of our children a shared responsibility between the government, parents, churches, NGOs and the local communities.
A shift from free education to shared responsibility was to compel parents and communities to plough the soil and work hard.
“In order to take back PNG, we must do away with creating a ‘handout culture’ of the previous government when over the last 6 years our people were made lazy, disconnected parents from schools and systematically removed their interest in schools. We want to disengage and cut out the dependency syndrome that was systematically allowed into our PNG culture over the last six (6) years.
“I thank the East Sepik Provincial Government for taking on the challenge to manage the GTFS Policy by signing the MoA today”.
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