{"id":113,"date":"2011-05-04T14:04:58","date_gmt":"2011-05-04T14:04:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/promote-team-spirit-governor-urges-local-leaders\/"},"modified":"2011-05-04T13:59:06","modified_gmt":"2011-05-04T13:59:06","slug":"promote-team-spirit-governor-urges-local-leaders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/promote-team-spirit-governor-urges-local-leaders\/","title":{"rendered":"Promote team spirit- Governor urges local leaders"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Governor of the Southern Province, Alphonse Munyentwari<\/span>, has urged local leaders to promote team spirit and improve communication skills as a way of delivering better services in the community.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The governor made the remarks during the celebration of the International Labour<\/span> Day marked in Muhanga<\/span> district this Tuesday.<\/p>\n

Munyentwari<\/span> said : \u201cThere is need to build a team of leaders, which has good qualities of communication, friendly and highly disciplined. A team which is able to do monitoring, evaluation and cross checks its activities, so as to deliver services and promote good governance\u201d<\/p>\n

The governor further asked local government leaders to consult with residents and opinion leaders during the implementation of community development activities build a strong collaborative effort with key players in development. <\/p>\n

Guest speaker, Th\u00e9oegene<\/span> Karake<\/span>, the secretary General of Association of Local government officials (RALGA<\/span>), made a presentation on customer care and service delivery. He called upon local leaders to be examples in their community.<\/p>\n

 \u201cCustomer care is a value that should be evident in all leaders and this can be done through exhibiting a character of simplicity and courtesy to the clientele\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf the president of the republic can receive guests with a warm welcome, then what does it take for a local leader to stand up and receive residents who enter their offices ?\u201d he posed.<\/p>\n

Other speakers at the celebrations included Brig. Gen.Mubarak<\/span> Muganga<\/span>, who also challenged leaders on the image of a leader in public, and the manner in which they spend a lot of time on their phone calls instead of attending to clients.<\/p>\n

Muhanga<\/span> District also rewarded three best performing cooperative- and IABM<\/span> cooperative which emerged top, was awarded Rwf500.000<\/span> cash prize to boost its maize growing activities.<\/p>\n

A district local leader\u2019s savings and loans cooperative (KOPIMU<\/span>) was also officially launched and its leaders elected during the celebrations held at the Muhanga<\/span> Cultural center.<\/p>\n

The governor hailed the activities of cooperatives in Muhanga<\/span> district, and encouraged cooperatives to also focus promote the growth and integration of human values with the members, so as to build a nation towards unity in development.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Governor of the Southern Province, Alphonse Munyentwari, has urged local leaders to promote team spirit and improve communication skills as a way of delivering better services in the community. The governor made the remarks during the celebration of the International Labour Day marked in Muhanga district this Tuesday. Munyentwari said : \u201cThere is need to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[75],"byline":[277],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-homenews","byline-igihe-com-reporter"],"bylines":[{"id":277,"name":"IGIHE.com Reporter","slug":"igihe-com-reporter","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":null}],"contributors":[{"id":277,"name":"IGIHE.com Reporter","slug":"igihe-com-reporter","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":null}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=113"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}