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its operations. Households, government personnel, and NGOs seem to think there is a lack of
transparency in certain aspects, such as in employment opportunities created by the PA and in
the decision to change its management from being community-based to operating under the
NIPAS system. For instance, the NGO representative in PAMB, who represents a women’s
organisation, complained of the PAMB’s seeming preference for men to be employed in lawenforcement
activities, while women were usually given housekeeping jobs. In effect, men
were being given more lucrative jobs than women. There was also disappointment in terms of
having fair representation in the PAMB. Although government and non-government
representatives believe the PAMB had adequate consultations about how to disburse the
revenues, households did not concur. There was almost a consensus, though, on having
transparency in creating the economic instrument, i.e. the user fees. Understandably, those
that believed otherwise were those displaced by the PAMB, namely the mayor and the PG
representative. For those who were not satisfied with law-enforcement activities, the
complaints were usually about the penalties imposed on would-be violators.
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