THE Kavieng District Development Authority (KDDA), revised Five- Year District Development Plan, was delivered to the Department of National Planning & Monitoring (DNPM), in Port Moresby recently.
“With some additional fine tuning of policy statements together with finalized updates of baseline data for Agriculture, Health and Education sectors, our KDDA 5 Year Development Plan (K5YDP) will also be ready for implementation in 2022-2027.The KDDA will hit the ground running,” said KDDA Chairman and Treasurer Ian Ling-Stuckey.
This was highlighted in a meeting with Secretary for Planning, Koney Samuel, in the presence of KDDA CEO, Mr David Lens and District Planner, Madelyn Matautu.
Ceo Lens highlighted key priority projects for Kavieng district, with project formulation documentation (PFD) completed and seeking funding support from DNPM to be implemented this year.
Secretary Koney in response said that Kavieng District’s revised K5YDP needed to be sanctioned, as a legitimate planning document by his Department, who were custodians of all Government plans, including Provincial and District Plans.
Secretary Koney further elaborated, as custodians of government plans, we will amalgamate all plans and align them with the GoPNG’s MTDP3 so they all have a cascading effect and relate to each other for ease of referencing, funding, as well as monitoring and evaluations. These plans are all related and they service or meet Vision 2050 goals.
KDDA CEO David Lens, briefly highlighted impact projects reflected in the KD5YDP and assured the Secretary that Kavieng’s plans were aligned with the national governments MTDP3.
“All we need now is funding and increasing the capacity of our four LLG administrations to ensure they were positioned to implement the KD5YDP and remain relevant in their rural settings,” said Mr Lens.
Secretary Samuel welcomed the opportunity to meet with the KDDA delegation and pledged to visit Kavieng District to inspect signature PIP projects undertaken.
He further committed to providing his department’s support to assist KDDA fast track outstanding PFD documents for the many schools in Kavieng, that were hungry to access the Marape Governments PIP Budget, that was funding record infrastructure development in the Education sector in PNG.