By LIONEL TAORAO
Isles Media Freelance Reporter In Ulawa Island.
A chief from Ulawa Island is calling on the Makira Ulawa provincial health department to come up with strong project monitoring mechanisms for project monitoring purposes.
Chief Douglas Teaitala made the call during a consultation meeting held at Taheramo Area health center on Tuesday 7th September by the Makira Ulawa province vector-borne disease control program Area manager for the proposed establishment of the program’s three-bedroom staff house at Taheramo area, in the North Ulawa ward of the Makira Ulawa province.
Chief Douglas said that it is important that such mechanisms are in place to avoid incomplete projects as it was with three previous infrastructure projects at the Taheramo land, of which the Makira Ulawa provincial government now has the land title of.
“It is very important that the Makira Ulawa provincial government must have a strong and effective project monitoring mechanism in place to monitor projects given to the province to avoid unfinished projects as was the case with three different building projects here at Taheramo”, he says.
“This is indeed a sad scenario that we have here at Ulawa where projects are incomplete and having funds wasted for nothing”, chief Teaitala states.
Chief Teaitala said that from these experiences, it is good that such monitoring mechanisms were put in place to avoid this thing with future projects such as the proposed vector-borne disease control program staff house for the Taheramo AHC.
He also said that should the three in- complete projects on Taheramo land have been fully completed, the Taheramo area which is also being earmarked to be the sub-station on Ulawa island would by now be different in terms of infrastructure development.
“If the mentioned incomplete projects were completed, Taheramo should have been improved by now with the different government sectors having their offices here on Ulawa together with the police and Area health center here”, he stated.
The three uncompleted projects that were built on the Taheramo land were: the Health promotion staff house which was funded under the Japanese International Community Agency (JICA), the MUP Education Authority office and staff house complex, and the proposed maternity building that was funded under the Solomon Islands Rural Development Program (SIRDP).
