Comprehensive Ministry Profile Document

• The Minister is the political head of the Ministry of Public Works & Transport.
• The Minister is the administrative head of the Ministry of Public Works, Housing & Transport of Puntland.
• The Minister implements the Government’s policies in the Ministry of Public Works, Housing & Transport.
• The Minister, in consultation with the Assistant Ministers, will decide on the personnel policy in Ministry of Public Works & Transport.
• The Minister, shall chair official meetings of the Ministry of Public Works, Housing & Transport
• The Minister, shall sign official documents of the Ministry of Public Works, Housing &Transport
• The Minister shall administratively supervise, guide and coordinate the overall activities of the Ministry of Public Works, Housing & Transport departments at central, regional and district levels including the private technical support companies.
• In consultation with the Vice Ministers, the Minster shall send notice to the Director General if he/she should not able to perform his/her duties appropriately and shall able to stop his/her duties.
• In consultation with the Director General, the Minister shall appoint consultant engineers or shall remove if the consultant should not able to perform his/her duties appropriately.
• In consultation with the Vice Ministers and the Director General, the Minister shall carryout field trip mission to monitor the overall regional coordinators/district officers, PRA Offices (Public Vehicles Registration Offices) and the regional & districts offices of the technical supporting private companies MoPW&T in every three months. The Vice Ministers & the DG shall accompany (if it’s possible) as to:
• Practically become more acquainted the public services delivered by the Ministry of Public Works & Transport in targeted districts of Puntland
• Assess the progress of the Puntland’s decentralization process at Local Governments level and ensure that the decentralized services delivered are all based on community felt needs.
• The Minister shall prepare the field trip mission report written in Somali/English and submit to the Ministers of MOI, MOPIC and other concerned Ministers in the Ministerial cabinet meeting, and shall keep a copy of the field trip mission report to his/her office mission report file. (Not only in computer hard-disc drives or USB removable flash drives).