PRIME Minister James Marape said each district in Papua New Guinea will be receiving a total of K15 million funding allocation from the government to commence project implementations and other development agendas.
He announced this during the Tari-Port District Development Authority’s (DDA’s) first DDA meeting for 2023 in Tari on Thursday.
PM Marape said each district had been allocated K10 million in District Services Improvement Programme (DSIP) with an additional K5 million for priority infrastructure.
As the Chairman of the DDA, PM Marape urged his DDA members to work on Tari-Pori district priorities.
“We have a K15 million envelope so the DDA must approve clear priorities to be driven by Local Level Government (LLG) and District leadership in support to our Provincial Government and National Government focus areas,” Marape said.
“I have tasked the district administration to finalise the 2022 financial report and also update on all work which happened last year.
I have also asked all LLGs to put all their development aspirations for 2023 together.
The focus areas for Tari-Pori District in 2023 are Education, Health, Law-and-Order, SMEs and infrastructure development. This is consistent with the focus of the National Government.”
“Churches, women and youth will play key roles because they will be engaged as development partners,” PM said.
Hela Governor Philip Undialu also attend the meeting to give Provincial Government support to Tari-Pori DDA.
“I commend Tari-Pori DDA for always being transparent in your development focus,” Governor Undialu said.
“The Hela Provincial Government stands ready to support you in all your development aspirations.”
Also at the meeting, Tari Town Mayor, Andaija ‘AJ’ Jeli, was reappointed as Deputy Chairman of Tari-Pori DDA to Chairman Marape
