Author: Vasinatta Yama

Acting Chairlady of the Pacific Institute of Leadership and Governance (PILAG) board and Department of Personnel Management Secretary, Ms. Taies Sansan, welcomed the Vanuatu Institute of Public Administration (VIPAM) official’s 5-day visit to PILAG early this month. Ms Sansan acknowledged the significance of the visit, an important national and regional collaboration between the two State institutions,…

It was good news for public servants nation-wide with the signing of the Memorandum of Agreement between the Department of Personnel Management and the Public Service Employees Association to have a 3 per cent increase to the salary of the 128, 000 public servants in the country. DPM Secretary, Ms Taies Sansan said  the MoA has…

The Department of Personnel Management’s HR Advisory and Compliance team have signed and issued the Deed of Release for the long serving Public Servants at the Department of Finance this month.  This has seen 28 public servants who have received their Deed of Releases, and are waiting to be paid out on the 4th Retirement…

The Department of Personnel Management’s HR Advisory and Compliance team have signed and issued the Deed of Release for the long serving Public Servants at the Department of Finance this month.  This has seen 28 public servants who have received their Deed of Releases, and are waiting to be paid out on the 4th Retirement…

A special Executive Management Team meeting was held for the  Executive Research Division to update the EMT Members on the progress of the Online Performance Management  System and methods to formulate and assess Departmental Heads and CEOs online. The presentation has resulted in the recommendation to conduct training to DPM staff, especially the planning officers…

Thirty-two lawyers from the Office of the  Public Prosecutor received their certificates of attainment in September this year, after  attending a two-day Gender Equity and Social Inclusion workshop recently in Port Moresby.The purpose of the workshop was to equip and educate public servants on the role of the GESI policy and how it can be applied and…

Department of Personnel Management in collaboration with the Department of Information, Communication and Technology (DICT) have recently hosted a joint forum to disseminate information on critical ICT Policy Reforms to the Human Resource Management and ICT fraternity in the Public Service. The objective of the forum was to inform public servants of the Digital HRM Transformation Roadmap the…

Department of Personnel Management and Deloitte met for 2 days this month to finalise the audit report of the Government Payroll system. Deloitte was engaged to audit the government payroll system at the end of last year and were given 8 months to complete the report. Deloitte had a 2 day session with DPM staff…

The long awaited public servants housing project has recently been launched at Bomana Portion 1212. Acting Prime Minister, John Roso officially launched the ground breaking ceremony. Guests who also attended includes Public Service Minister, Joe Sungi, Housing Minister, Dr Kobby Bomareo, Community Development, Religion and Youth Minister, Jason Peter, PMNEC Secretary, Ivan Pomaleu, DPM Secretary, Ms Taies Sansan, Finance…

Department of Personnel Management was among other government agencies who made presentations to members of the 11th parliament as part of the orientation week for members of parliament. Secretary Ms. Taies Sansan made a presentation on the legal mandate of the department. Ms. Sansan presented that the Department is responsible for all public servants throughout the country.…