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Welcome to UNDP Papua New Guinea

UNDP is the UN's global development network, advocating for change and connecting countries to knowledge, experience and resources to help people build a better life.

Despite vast natural and mineral wealth, Papua New Guinea is a very poor country and poverty impacts on the daily lives of almost all of the population. Poverty is exacerbated by among other things; extreme rural isolation; high rates of crime and violence; a burgeoning HIV/AIDS epidemic and recent political turmoil.

Only about 40 percent of Papua New Guineans enroll in school, 5.5 percent of babies born will die before they are two years old and the average life expectancy is just 57 years at birth.

UNDP works to improve the government's ability to deliver public services to the poor and in doing so, plays a vital role in helping to achieve the Millennium Development Goals, raise the standard of living and protect human rights for ordinary Papua New Guineans.

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Photo: PNG Practice Parliment Training for Intending Women Candidates to run for 2012 National Elections

 

 

 

 

MDGs and Poverty Reduction

Thirty-seven percent of PNG's population lives below the national poverty line and PNG is one of the poorest countries in Asia and indeed the world. UNDP's poverty reduction programme is geared towards providing strategic support to the government in its formulation and implementation of national development plans and strategies so that it can help PNG achieve the Millennium Target of halving poverty by 2015