The Minister for National Planning, Rainbo Paita has given his assurance to parliament that he will be working on putting out a full and detailed report on how the development budget has been implemented so far for transparency purposes and to inform the country how funding has been used so far.
Minister Paita when responding to questions from the Governor for Southern Highlands, William Powi, said the revised development budget figure for 2023 is K6. 72million and the report will contain details of projects and funding at different levels, sector by sector, district by district and province by province.
“I assure I will table a very detailed report to come on the back of MTDP 4 and the government setting up a national monitoring aunthority,” said the minister.
The minister also made mention that implementation of projects has always been a challenge as per the report from the last Medium Term Development Plan (MTDP) 3, which was something that has been taken into consideration in this latest MTDP 4.
Meanwhile, Governor Powi said the tabling of a report on development is vital because the leaders and the people have the right to know how the funding has been used, in which sectors and whether some of these projects have already reached completion and how are they impacting the communities.
The governor suggested that the minister look at putting out the report quarterly or every six months in a year.