Port Moresby, 11 March 2018 - Relief supplies are starting to be distributed in earthquake affected areas of Papua New Guinea, with water, food, shelter, medicine and the provision of health services identified as the priority needs.
Port Moresby, 29 March 2018: The United Nations in Papua New Guinea has mobilized an additional USD 9.2million (K30 million) from the UN Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF) for the highlands earthquake disaster in Papua New Guinea (PNG).
“I have lived a long life. It’s been hard. I have seen too many women die while giving birth, or while on their way to seek medical help, children die because we could not get to a hospital on time.” Read about addressing prosperity in Papua New Guinea.
Port Moresby, 27 March 2018 – A partnership among the Government of Papua New Guinea, the Government of India and the United Nations Development Programme will increase the capacity of ICT in the country.
Buka, 15 March 2018 – 17 specially trained trauma counsellors will be deployed this week to provide counselling services at the community level across North Bougainville region.
Port Moresby, 06 March 2018 – A team of six emergency experts from the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) deployed to Papua New Guinea (PNG) to assist the government in response to the earthquake disaster efforts in the Highlands.
Josephine Getsi is the only female within the Autonomous Bougainville Government to hold a ministerial position, and the only female to be elected to an open seat by her constituents across both the Bougainville House of Reps and PNG's National Parliament.
Into the Jungle
Conservationists Jim and Jean Thomas packed up their safe suburban life in Australia and braved the steamy jungles of Papua New Guinea to save a little known tree kangaroo from being hunted to extinction.
UNDP and Papua New Guinea in photos
Take a look at the people and partners we work with including our project sites accoss the different areas in Papua New Guinea.
Collectors stamps to commemorate APEC
23 November 2017, Port Moresby – Post PNG will be releasing new series of collectors stamps to commemorate Papua New Guinea’s historic hosting of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation.
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About Papua New Guinea
60%
population of youth
12 %
wage employment rate
2 712
gross national income (GNI) per capita
153
out of 188 countries in the Human Development Index