THE District Services Improvement Programme (DSIP) is an overarching financial input for service delivery for the Anglimp South Waghi (ASW) district in Jiwaka province, says District Administrator Joseph Mangro. Mr. Mangro said the SIP program is a strategic rural intervention program aimed at address lacking of development and basic government services targeting rural marginalized communities and villages. “The district strongly believes that the SIP program, if soundly managed and implement, will inevitably address development needs of the rural communities and progressively bring about unprecedented rural economic growth and improve the living standards of its people,” he said. Mangro highlighted this sentiments while presenting their 2018-2021 DSIP acquittal reports to the Department of Implementation & Rural Development (DIRD) in Port Moresby last week. Mr. Mangro said Anglimp South Waghi (ASW) district opted to furnish the outstanding DSIP financial report of more than K40.0 million as part of its compliance stipulated under the Public Finance Management (Act) to report to the national government before the country goes to the national general elections. “We have to clear our books, all financial transactions and reports must be submitted to responsible agencies so we can go to the polls with clean hands and no complaints from our stakeholders,” he said. Mangro said much of these development grants were expedited on impact projects such as infrastructures basically sealing of roads, construction of bridges, health centres, aid posts, construction of double classrooms for primary to secondary schools, rural electrification program to connect every households with the electricity which is in line with the district’s ambition to connect 75% of the people with electricity by 2022, rural water supply, purchased ambulances for health centres, vehicles for education and health sectors. As reflected in the acquittal reports, the district manage to support churches, as 10% of district’s DSIP grants were allocated to different denominations. “Since we live in multi religious society, churches plays a significant role to restore peace and harmony in the community, which they are also public servants in the surrounding community, where we supported them,” he said. Incumbent and local MP Joe Kuli stressed that under his leadership he had made a policy decision to support farming cooperative societies to encourage farmers in the district to venture into farming businesses or commercial agriculture to earn income and improve their social and economic well beings that will create employment opportunities and promote economic growth. Kuli said he will continue to develop many good economic policies and deliver impact projects that his 200,000 plus population will greatly benefit if he is elected for the second term in this 11th National Parliament. “The landmass and huge population supplemented by greed, nepotism, tribalism, lack of vision and a voter-based traditional systems in service delivery at the political helm over the years had prevented the electorate from seeing any tangible developments. Regardless, all bad things has to end now, I have to establish mutual relationships with our people and display a modern leadership styles to ensure basic services are diversified for each of the LLGs where people receive fair distribution of tangible services which they have never seen before,” he said. One of the impact project the district delivered was the K8.0 million bailey bridge constructed across the Waghi river, connecting Mugmamp to Kindeng to the outside World which they have been cut off for a decades. Some notable projects like K7 million electrification that greatly benefited entire population including 500 block holders from different parts of Papua New Guinea residing in ASW. The power projects delivered were Kindeng Rogump (7km), Lupa-Tari market (2.5km), Sanap-Anda (3km), Sanap- Kendu (2km), Kurki-Altai (2km), Aviamp- Aviamp 1(1km), Kami-Kupa (2.5km), Avi (2km), Wurup- 5mile (1.5km), Wurup-Lel(.5km) and Wara Wau-Waghi (1.5km). The district also subsidized school fees for students attending various tertiary institutions around the country and other major sporting programs to curb lawlessness. DIRD who monitors and administer SIP program around the country had reported ASW