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helps to increase family income levels. These lessons could
equally apply to farmers in the selected areas.
Most children in these families have not received even
a primary education. Parents do not have the ability to
spend adequate funds on their education so the government
must provide the facilities enjoyed by other students in the
country. There is a possibility of getting support from the
private sector and other donor agencies for building new
schools, introducing scholarship programmes, providing
text books, uniforms and other required resources under
corporate social responsibility activities.
People’s participation is another approach for making the
public sector more effective. This can be enhanced by involv-
ing field work, interaction between public officials and the
people. The public officials can arrange mobile offices within
the area to understand the real problems of the people and
solve them.
The most serious issue faced by the divisional secretary in
these areas is that people are reluctant to go to new lands,
rather they still hope to retrieve their previously owned
lands. With the support of central government, private
sector and donor agencies, attractive financial benefits could
be offered to those who have expressed an interest to move
to new lands. Another option is that foreign aid could be
deposited directly in a household’s bank account so that they
could rebuild their own houses rather than have government
officials handling foreign aid. If the government can fund
more money for the people who are willing to move to new
lands, it will encourage the move from the welfare camps.
Government officials could invite new business investors
to invest in these areas and start new industries, helping to
generate job opportunities for people living in the camps.
It could be simply concluded that, due to the lack of
resources, one could not stop public service delivery. There
are various ways to create effective, accountable and trans-
parent government organizations. Managerial innovation is
considered as another alternative in restoring effective public
service delivery to promote peaceful and inclusive societies.
A house was constructed by the divisional secretariat with the help of various
parties in the resettled areas
A water well and tank were built by the divisional secretariat with the help of various parties in the resettled areas
Image: Third year undergraduates of the department of public administration reading for B.Sc. Public Management (Special) Degree
Image: Third year undergraduates of the department of public administration
reading for B.Sc. Public Management (Special) Degree