Planning Minister Charles Abel

DSIP auditing will be in place says Minister Abel

DSIP allocation did not see any changes in the 2017 National Budget handed down by the Treasury Minister Patrick Pruaitch on Monday.   

“You will find out the PSIP (Provincial Service Improvement Program) have come down it had been K5 million per district, have been reduced by K10 million.

“A very important platform for this government is subnational empowerment, it is not only funding DSIP, but it goes down to funding health, education, law and order, transport and services in a major way,” Abel said after the handing down of the Budget.  

Budget framework to be linked to Budget: Abel

The Department of National Planning and Monitoring is drawing up a budget framework paper which is in line with the National Planning Act as a yard stick for National Governments when planning the country’s annual budget.     

“We have a law and we have a paper in place we are working on that to influence the framing of the annual budgets, something which in my experience has being rather adhoc (in the last 40 years), to be honest with you,” Abel said.