Papua New Guinea

Project Fact Sheets & Documents

Service Line 1.1: MDG country reporting and poverty monitoring

MDG Coordination and Implementation Project (Joint UN Project, ongoing):
The MDG Coordination and Implementation Project serves as platform/organizing framework for deliberations on the MDGs in PNG. The four components of the project serve two main outcomes: (i) provide a basis and foundation for a massive national awareness of the MDGs at the national, provincial, and local government levels; and (ii) promote strong data collection, analysis and reporting on the 67 PNG-tailored MDG indicators.
Fact Sheet | Project Document | 2004 National MDG Progress Report

Service Line 1.6: Gender mainstreaming

Gender Equality and Leadership for Results Preparatory Assistance Project (ongoing):
The objective of this 15 month Preparatory Assistance (PA) Project is to design and plan a UNDP Gender Programme, called the UNDP Gender Equality Programme, in support of the United Nations Country Programme (UNCP) for 2008-2012. It will use and build upon UNDP’s comparative advantages and best practices in gender and women’s empowerment.
Fact Sheet | Project Document

 

Service Line 2.1: Policy support for democratic governance

Rapid Advisory Services (RAS) Project (ongoing):
The project provides policy and capacity building services to the Government of Papua New Guinea to allow for quick responses to emerging development challenges. This support is being realized through the funding of consultancies services, capacity building measures, pilot and preparatory interventions and activities that strengthen the cooperation and partnership between the Government and UNDP as well as international integration. A strengthened cooperation and aid management framework will help to increase the effectiveness of UNDP development interventions and thus directly support the Government in achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).
Fact Sheet | Project Document

Strengthening Aid Coordination and Management Capacity Project (ongoing):
The project aims to strengthen and improve the effectiveness and efficiency of aid coordination and management through strengthening aid coordination and management capacities of the government agency responsible for aid coordination and management. The project will, specifically, build organizational and management/staff capabilities and functions of the Aid Coordination and Policy Directorate of the Department for National Planning and Monitoring so that the Government has a working, transparent and effective aid coordination, management and delivery system. Such strengthening will help Papua New Guinea to attract foreign assistance, use the foreign assistance it is already receiving, including increasing absorption as well as effectiveness, and assist in addressing key development objectives.
Fact Sheet | Project Document

Service Line 2.2: Parliamentary development

Support to National Parliament Project:
Through this three-year project, UNDP will initiate a programme intended to facilitate the reinvigoration and modernization of the National Parliament to better meet the modern demands placed on democratic institutions in the twenty first century. This support will concentrate primarily on increasing the effectiveness, transparency and accountability of the Parliamentary Service to better serve elected representatives. It will also strengthen the National Parliaments linkages with provincial legislative bodies and provide a focused support to the parliamentary committee system. In addition, it will strengthen its collaboration with external partners. Finally the Project will directly support the legislative, oversight and representational roles of the members of parliamentarian’s through workshops, research and work exchanges.
Fact Sheet | Project Document | Preparatory Assistance Phase Project Document | Project Evaluation Report

Service Line 2.3: Electoral systems and processes

Voter Education and Democratic Governance Awareness Project (closed):
The project will provide awareness and education about electoral governance, the limited preferential voting system and principles of good leadership in the lead up to the 2007 national general election. The project is targeted to raise voters’ awareness and to educate them on the principles of good leadership and democratic principles, enabling them to make more informed choices during the 2007 election and to enhance the quality of democratic leadership.
Fact Sheet | Project Document

Service Line 2.4: Justice and human rights

Human Rights Advocacy & Monitoring Project (DGTTF 2005, closed):
The Human Rights Advocacy & Monitoring Project (AdvocProject) is funded from the UNDP Democratic Governance Trust Fund. UNDP supports the Government of Papua New Guinea's effort sin observing international human rights commitments in setting up a human rights protection mechanism with the Ombudsman Commission as the main element of this structure. This proposal was crafted after UNDP learned from the Ombudsman Commission (OC) that they require assistance to strengthen and enhance their current Human Rights Unit.
Fact Sheet | Project Document

Strengthening Human Rights in PNG Project (ACTION 2), ongoing:
Papua New Guinea has several human rights challenges. Gender based violence is widespread, and there are problems linked to police violence , violence against children, extended use of remand, and trafficking in women. At the same time, only three major human rights instruments have been ratified or acceded to by PNG. The two international bill of rights covenants are yet to be ratified or acceded to by PNG. The project will strengthen human rights awareness in Papua New Guinea through capacity building and advocacy initiatives. Specific tools will be developed for the legal community and the NGO sector on human rights awareness and instruments . The project will also raise awareness for media stakeholders through targeted interventions towards media personnel. The project will seek to strengthen the capacity on reporting on human rights instruments already signed by PNG, as well as raise awareness on the UN treaty body system, including a special emphasis on the CRC optional protocol.
Fact Sheet | Project Document

Bougainville Community Leadership Project (DGTTF 2007, closed):
The Bougainville Community Leadership Project (BCLP) aims to implement a number of practical human rights and peace building initiatives as set forth in the Bougainville Peace Agreement. The project will, by focusing on human rights and women and youth, consolidate and compliment the comprehensive multi-year UNDP Bougainville Planning and Community Support (BPCS) Project. BPCS is designed to help the Autonomous Region of Bougainville (ARB) of Papua New Guinea to secure its peace and commerce its economic and social recovery after a highly destructive 10 year hiatus of conflict. Its focus is on governance, peace, security and economic recovery.
Fact Sheet | Project Document

Service Line 2.6: Decentralization, local governance and urban/rural development

Provincial Capacity Building Project (PCaB) - Phase I (ongoing):
The project aims to assist the Government of Papua New Guinea to further develop an integrated approach to strengthen financial management at the national and provincial levels based on the lessons learnt from previous interventions and new pilot approaches to be tested within the intermediate assistance phase. It further aims to consolidate the achievements of the SPFMT project with regard to hands-on financial management training at the provincial level while building national capacities through a pilot internship and provincial training officer network at the same time. The results of this intermediate short-term and time-bound phase and previous interventions will feed into design mission for a full-scale decentralization intervention.
Fact Sheet | Project Document

Bougainville Planning and Community Support Project - BPCS (ongoing):
The project aims to assist the Autonomous Bougainville Government in (i) building capacity through effective planning and management skills; (ii) support the consolidation of the peace process through leadership, human rights advocacy and other social activities; and to (iii) strengthen economic development and livelihood opportunities.
Fact Sheet | Project Document

Urban Governance Support Project (UNHABITAT, ongoing):
The Preparatory Urban Governance Support Project provides direct support to PNG Government’s emerging National Urbanization Policy. In a broader national context, the project supports the Government’s efforts under its Medium Term Development Strategy (2005-10, MTDS) goals to improve the quality of life in settlements within the cities and towns , thus, achieving MDG Goal # 7, targets 10 (water & sanitation) and 11 (cities without slums).
Fact Sheet | Project Document

Service Line 3.1: Frameworks and strategies for sustainable development

National Capacity Self-Assessment for Global Environmental Management (NCSA), GEF, ongoing:
The National Capacity Self Assessment (NCSA) for Global Environmental Management is a GEF funding window providing up to USD 200,000 to conduct an assessment of and to strengthen links between multilateral environmental agreements (MEAs) and their implementation at the national level. Its primary objective is to identify country-level priorities and needs for capacity building to address global environmental issues, in particular biological diversity, climate change and land degradation, with the aim of catalysing domestic and/or externally assisted action to meet those needs in a coordinated manner.
Fact Sheet | Project Document

Enabling Activities for the Preparation of PNG's second National Communication to the UNFCCC (UN Framework Convention on Climate Change), ongoing:
The purpose of the project is to prepare a comprehensive report on climate change related issues. The analysis contained in the Initial National Communication (INC) will be updated and upgraded/extended in order to ensure the preparation of a comprehensive Second National Communication (SNC). Furthermore, the project will work towards ensuring that climate change issues are not considered as separate national and local environmental concerns but are integrated into the national and local strategic planning process.
Fact Sheet | Project Document

Department of Environment and Conservation Capacity Strengthening Project, ongoing:
The project aims to strengthen DEC’s capacity to mainstream environmental issues into national development planning to achieve the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) on ensuring environmental sustainability. This is also essential to further enhance the knowledge and skills of DEC staff to identify international environmental funding mechanisms, particularly the Global Environmental Facility, to assist PNG’s environmental planning and management to protect significant environmental assets that ultimately contribute to global environmental benefits.
Fact Sheet | Project Document

Service Line 3.4: Sustainable land management to combat desertification and land degradation

Capacity Building for Sustainable Land Management in Papua New Guinea, GEF, ongoing:
The project aims to strengthen human and institutional capacity at all levels to mainstream sustainable land management into national policies, plans and legislation. This will be achieved through improving the information basis of characterising the state of land degradation and its impact, raising awareness at various levels of government agencies, improving individual knowledge and skills, improving institutional structures and processes to maximise coordination, mainstreaming sustainable land management into the Government’s development planning processes, and incorporating the use of mainstreaming tools in decision-making.
Fact Sheet | Project Document

Remote Sensing Land Use Initiative Project, closed:
The project is aimed at providing open access for the people of Papua New Guinea to information about the status of land use in the country. It involves the production of spatial accounts of the land-use patterns across the country, thereby equipping those managing land assets with reliable data on which to base their decisions and activities.
Fact Sheet | Project Document | Terminal Project Evaluation

Service Line 3.5: Conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity

Community-based coastal and marine conservation in Milne Bay Province, GEF (closed):
The purpose of the project is to conserve Milne Bay’s marine biodiversity by integrating conservation objectives into marine fisheries, eco-tourism and human security development strategies and programmes. The project will support community-based conservation management demonstrations, working in three designated zones that are representative of Milne Bay’s habitat diversity and the many different social settings in the province. Interventions will seek to establish community-managed marine protected areas (MPAs) geared to securing conservation and sustainable use objectives. The project proposes to develop a community-based conservation management framework that is operationalised in partnership with national and provincial government authorities, the private sector, non-governmental organizations and local resources owners to conserve a representative sample of the globally significant biodiversity in Milne Bay.
Fact Sheet | Project Document | Terminal Project Evaluation | Terminal Evaluation Annexes | Conservation International (CI) Response to Terminal Evaluation | Netuli Island Community Options Paper | Nuakata Island Community Options Paper | Various Community Development Papers | Milne Bay Sustainable Land Use Project Document

Community-based coastal and marine conservation in Milne Bay Province (Supplementary Project), ongoing:
The purpose of the project is to ensure that the key outputs for the Global Environment Facility (GEF) funded Project activities from Phase 1 have been met, and the necessary provisions are made for Phase 2 of the project. The main focus of this supplementary project is therefore to strengthen the Milne Bay Provincial Government (MBPG) institutional policy framework to formally establish Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) and enhance its management and financial capacities to manage project implementation during Phase 2. An additional objective of this supplementary assistance is to conduct an end-of-project evaluation of the GEF funded project as the basis of mobilizing alternative funding for the continuation and sustainability of the project outcomes beyond Phase 1.
Fact Sheet | Project Document

Community Based Eco-Tourism Development Project (Preparatory Assistance), ongoing:
As Project Partners, UNDP PNG and the Tourism Promotion Authority (TPA) of the Papua New Guinea Government will conduct a 12 month Preparatory Assistance Project for the implementation of a subsequent 4-5 year Community Based Eco-Tourism (CBET) Development Project. The design of the CBET implementation project will be based on the vision of conducting a pilot project in selected communities and provinces of PNG to achieve the following results: (i) Improving existing and developing new nature and culture based tourist activities and services that are owned and operated by local communities and micro-enterprises; (ii) To provide such services and activities to the customers of existing tourist accommodation and tour operator businesses, (iii) To market these CBET services through existing, improved and new mechanisms. The principle deliverable of the Preparatory Assistance Project will be a Project Document for the Implementation Phase of a 4-5 year CBET Development Pilot Project in selected communities and provinces.
Fact Sheet | Project Document

Service Line 4.1: Conflict Prevention and Peace Building

Nation Building Support Programme for Papua New Guinea (Preparatory Assistance), ongoing:
The Preparatory Assistance (PA) project will assist the Government of Papua New Guinea to:
1. Formulate a programme to enhance nation building, in partnership with UNDP and the UN Country Team, that will address the root causes of conflict in the country, be they of a cultural, social, economic or environmental nature, at the local and national level;
2. Identify specific national capacity and UNDP Country Office needs to manage the nation building programme; and
3. Set-up partnerships with the Government, civil society and donors, to ensure a smooth transition from PA phase to programme implementation
Fact Sheet | Project Document

 

Service line 5.1: Leadership and capacity development to address HIV/AIDS

Global Leadership Development Programme on HIV/AIDS in Papua New Guinea:
The LDP Programme aims to strengthen the national response to HIV/AIDS in PNG, to assist the leaders with new technologies of transformative leadership and empowerment, and supports gender equity in the national response.
Fact Sheet

Service Line 5.2: Development planning, implementation and HIV/AIDS responses

Joint UN Programme for the HIV/AIDS Monitoring and Evaluation Enhancement Support Project (ongoing):
This UNDP initiated UN Joint Project aims to support the national commitment to develop a strong epidemiological database that is supported by a monitoring and evaluation (M&E) system as well as the Country Response Information System (CRIS) in order to ensure sustainability of the national response. The purpose of the project is to
build the national capacity of the National Aids Council Secretariat (NACS) through a monitoring and evaluation unit, acting as the national coordinating entity to effectively monitor the rate of increase at the provincial and district levels and the efficacy of all programmes within the national response.
Fact Sheet | Project Document

Service Line 5.3: Advocacy and communication to address HIV/AIDS

Support to the National response to HIV/AIDS in Papua New Guinea (closed):
The projects provided technical and logistical support to strengthening the national response to HIV/AIDS by supporting efforts that targeted national leaders and policy makers to ensure that HIV/AIDS was treated as a serious development problem facing the country. The project focused on 3 components: (i) Advocacy and policy dialogue at the national level; (ii) Integration of the gender dimensions of HIV/AIDS into the national programmes on HIV/AIDS; (iii) Workplace support and legal rights for the PLWHA.
Fact Sheet | Project Document | National Gender Policy and Plan on HIV/AIDS 2006-2010 | A Gender Audit of National Strategic Plan on HIV/AIDS 2006-2010 | PNG 2004-2008 National Strategic Plan on HIV and AIDS