Poverty Reduction UNDP Papua New Guinea

Poverty Reduction & Achieving the MDGs

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Commitment to improve aid delivery in PNG

Thirty-seven percent of PNG's population live 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.

The government of PNG, like all governments of the world, has agreed, by signing up to the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) to addressing many dimensions of human development, including halving by 2015 the proportion of people living in extreme poverty.

UNDP is working closely with the government to help make this a reality, as well as monitor the country's progress towards achieving the MDGs.

UNDP promotes the concept that equity, social inclusion, women's empowerment, and respect for human rights matter for poverty reduction.

Poverty Reduction and Achieving the MDGs in Papua New Guinea

UNDP Papua New Guinea is helping to reduce poverty through the following Projects:

MDG Coordination and Implementation Project:This project is aimed at strengthening the Monitoring and Evaluation Capacity of the Governmentto effectively monitor the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). UNDP is assisting the government to integrate MDG themes into its strategic development programme. It will localize the MDGs, establishing national ownership, monitoring at the sub-national level, campaign, create awareness and link the MDGs to planning, budgeting and policy processes. This project is on-going until January 2009.

Fact sheet | Project Document | Annual Workplan 2009 |2004 National MDG Progress Report | Financial Disbursements and Funding

Aid Coordination and Management: This project provides support to the government to develop organizational and management/staff capacity at the Aid Policy and Coordination Directorate (APCD) of the Department of National Planning and Monitoring, so that the Government has a working, transparent and effective aid coordination, management and delivery system. This project is on-going until 2012.

Fact sheet | Annual Workplan 2009 | Financial Disbursements and Funding

Find out more on how UNDP is supporting the achievement of the National Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and Targets in Papua New Guinea

For the latest expenditure figures for each project, go to our funding page