JPC, Partners Collect Data For Improved County Service Center

By Sylvester W. Korwor, Bong County Correspondent

The Catholic Justice and Peace Commission (JPC) and Partners have embarked on data collection from counties with service centers to begin stakeholder’s engagement that will improve those centers.

Speaking in Gbarnga, Bong County on August 31, 2024, the JPC Regional Coordinator George Philip Mulbah, disclosed that the JPC and Partners are collecting data from service centers in Nimba, Grand Gedeh, Maryland, Bong, and Grand Bassa among others to begin stakeholder’s engagement aimed at improving the county service centers.

Mr. Mulbah underscored the need for collaboration among stakeholders to identify and target pressing issues in the counties and people that should benefit from those issues. Mulbah maintained that his office is ensuring that those initiatives that will benefit the people are achieved.

He stated that the data collection is part of strategies to ensure good governance in social justice, with specific focus on the service centers.

Mr. George Philip Mulbah wants the county authorities to share with them the workings of the service centers, the services they are currently providing and those required services not currently provided.

Meanwhile, responding to the JPC Regional Coordinator deliberations, the Personnel Analyst for Bong County Madam Malin Jawo, pointed out several challenges currently faced by the service center including inadequate infrastructure, limited resources, and shortage of trained personnel responsible for transactions among others.

Those obstacles, she lamented, have hindered the center from providing the needed services to residents in the county for the past years.

Madam Jawo pointed out birth certificates, transport registration, traditional wedding certificate, psychosocial counseling and marriage certificate as some basic services not available at Bong County service center.

She believes that taking such essential documents to Monrovia for ministers’ signatures and onward processing consume lots of time and is also cost intensive, adding that the Boakai led administration is working to have those challenges resolved.