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P.O.Box 560192, Petauke, Zambia - Tel: (+26) 06 371109 - petcon@zamtel.zm
Petauke District Council
Petauke District Councils øverste myndighed er District Council (svarer nogenlunde til en kommunalbestyrelse), der består af 25 medlemmer, hvoraf 20 er valgt i de tyve wards, 3 er de parlaments-medlemmer, der er valgt i distriktets tre valgkredse, og 2 er repræsentanter for og valgt af Petauke Districts høvdinge. Kun to er kvinder.
Formanden er Council Chairman, der svarer til en dansk borgmester med den forskel, at han ingen udøvende magt har og højst kan sidde i 2 år i træk.
Administrationen ledes af Council Secretary (kommunal-direktøren), der er embedsmand og har den udøvende magt, men er ansvarlig over for Council. Administrationen er delt op i afdelinger/forvaltninger, og en af dem er DPU (Plan- & Udviklingsafdelingen), som jeg var tilknyttet. Jeg var også medlem af ledelsesgruppen
Petauke District Council
The highest authority of Petauke District Council lies with the District Council consisting of 25 councillors, 20 of whom are elected in the twenty wards, 3 are the Members of Parliament elected in the District's three constituencies and 2 are chiefs' representatives appointed by the chiefs of Petauke District. Only two councillors are women.
Head of Petauke District Council is the Council Chairman, who has no executive powers and is elected every year but can only sit for two years in a row.
All executive power rests with the Council Secretary, who is a public servant and answerable to the Council. He heads the Public Service of the District Council, consisting of various departments, one of them the District Planning Unit (DPU), to which I was attached. I also sat on the Management Committee.
District Council holder kun 4 ordinære møder om året - der er ikke økonomiske ressourcer til flere diæter osv. Der er 3 stående udvalg under Council.
The District Council has only four ordinary meetings a year due to lack of resources for allowances etc. There are 3 standing committees under the Council.
Council-medlemmer ved MS workshop om Lederskab
Councillors during an MS Workshop on
Leadership
Min bedste chef nogensinde, kommunaldirektør Andy Masenga, var den vigtigste person ved Petauke District Council, fordi han havde hele den udøvende magt (Formanden for Council skal som nævnt udskiftes efter højst 2 år og har ingen udøvende magt). Han var chef for forvaltningen og havde til opgave at føre Councils (kommunalbestyrelsens) vedtagelser ud i livet og - ikke mindst - at rådgive Council (kommunal-bestyrelsen). Mr Masenga havde visioner, personlig integrititet, know-how og indsigt, og jeg nærede dyb respekt og beundring for ham.
Da jeg var på besøg i 2005, var han gået
af og skulle erstattes af en anden, hvilket jeg så som et stort
tab for Petauke distrikt som helhed. Mr Masenga var for mig Petauke
District Council!
My best boss ever, Mr Andy Masenga, Council Secretary, was the most powerful person in the District Council because he was the Chief Executive Officer (and because the Council Chairman must be exchanged after two terms (= 2 years!) and has no executive power). The Council Secretary heads the public service of the Council and his primary function is to enforce the decisions of the Council and - not least - to advise the Council.. Mr Masenga had vision, integrity, know-how and wisdom and I admired and respected him deeply.
When I visited in 2005, Mr Masenga had retired and was about to be replaced by a new CS, which I saw as a great loss to Petauke District as a whole. To me Mr Masenga was Petauke District Council!
Til
højre: Masenga og frue nyder deres otium (2005)
Right: Mrs and Mr Masenga enjoying retirement
(2005)
Plan- og Udviklingsafdelingen
bestod af plan- & udviklingschefen Kennedy Mwansa (yderst til højre), kontorassistent Dulani Phiri og plan- & udviklings-assistent Emmanuel Chabu. Jeg var tilknyttet denne afdeling som distrikts-ledelses- og planlægningsrådgiver
The District Planning Unit (DPU)
comprised Kennedy Mwansa,
District Planning Officer (DPO) (far right), Dulani Phiri, Clerical Officer,
Emmanuel Chabu, Assistant DPO. I was attached to the DPU as District Management
& Planning Advisor
ADC
- Lokalråd / Områdeudviklingsudvalg
Petauke District er et af de få distrikter
i Zambia, der har lokalt valgte områdeudviklingsudvalg i hele distriktet,
i alt tyve. Dette har MS bl.a. støttet, og efter min mening er
det en enestående lejlighed til at komme i direkte kontakt med de
(mest) fattige.
50% af de valgte medlemmer skal være kvinder. Desuden sidder der
en repræsentant for høvdingen i området, og det lokale
Council-medlem (kommunalbetyrelsesmedlem) deltager i møderne uden
stemmeret - men ikke nødvendigvis uden indflydelse!
ADC'erne skal fremme og koordinere udviklingsprojekter i deres område.
Deres sekretærer sidder i distriktets projekt-koordineringsudvalg
(DDCC) sammen med repræsentanter for alle andre vigtige aktører
i udviklingsprojekter i i distriktet.
Area
Development Committees (ADCs)
Petauke District is one of the few districts in Zambia with locally elected
Area Development Committees (ADCs ) in the whole district, twenty in all
- one per ward. This is one of the activities that have been supported
by MS Zambia and in my opinion this is an excellent opportunity to get
in direct contact with the poor(est).
Fifty per cent of the elected members must be women. Besides
the local chief is represented, and the ward Councillor is an ex-officio
member but not necessarily without influence!
It is the task of the ADCs to promote and coordinate development
projects in their area. Their secretaries sit on the District Development
Coordinating Committee (DDCC) with representatives of all other important
stakeholders.
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