And despite the revival of training programs for the public service, there has already been a whole generation of public servants not adequately skilled to take on management roles and effectively deliver services to PNG.
The Special Parliamentary Committee on Public Sector Reform and Service Delivery says this creates a gap in the middle management of the public service.
“We’ve had a whole generation where we haven’t trained people. So we have a group of people who are well versed and well trained but they’re all at retirement age.
