The Papua New Guinea Government financial system the Integrated Finance Management System (IFMS) is expected to be restored in provinces and districts after the National Elections. Finance Department's Deputy Secretary Support Services Margaret Tenakanai explained that the IFMS is still down in the provinces, following the recent cyber-attack, it has been restored at the national department and is slowly being rolled out again to other government agencies, that meet set requirements. Ms Tenakanai said this at the recent 2-day workshop held in Kokopo, East New Britain Province. Department of Finance Deputy Secretary for Support Services Margeret Tenakanai says strict security systems and measures have been put in place to protect the IFMS from any more malware attacks.
Hence part of the reason for the workshop in Kokopo last week was to train officers on how to use a standardized template to manually do bank reconciliation with the COVID Trust Accounts in the provinces. She says the template was formulated by Provincial Capacity and Building or PCAB and the Provincial and District Financial Management and was endorsed for use by Department Secretary Dr. Ken Nangan. Tenakanai iterated that the manual process was immediately put in place to ensure continuity of operations for the provinces and districts. She says the process is user friendly and easy to upload to the IFMS when it gets restored in the provinces and districts. The latter was on Election Trust Account as per a Finance Instruction this year, on how the funds will be allocated from the national budget of the PNG Electoral Commission down to the provincial trust accounts. She says 22 trust accounts are being set up to enable the flow of election funds that will be facilitated by the Provincial Election Manager and the Provincial Finance Manager. NBC News / PNG education News Next : Drunk PNG College Students Run Amok Comments are closed.
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