Port Moresby, 4 April 2018– The award winning anti-corruption initiative by the Department of Finance and United Nations Development Programme, ‘Phones Against Corruption’, is expanding to include 44 government agencies.
Port Moresby, 19 April 2018 – The Government of New Zealand has strengthened its support to the National Government of Papua New Guinea (PNG), the Autonomous Bougainville Government (ABG) and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) through a one-million-dollar (US) contribution to UNDP’s Bougainville Referendum Support Project (BRSP).
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Alotau, Wednesday 09 March 2018 – More than 600 students in Alotau and Kokopo are the first to participate in tsunami evacuation drills in Papua New Guinea.
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.
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Buka, April 2018 - “We need to restore our credibility in Bougainville, and to do that we need to engage with respected partners on the ground. One of those, no doubt, is UNDP.”
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Madang, 03 April 2018 - “Unfortunately, we have it all. Madang is a province that is prone to many types of disasters. Marine disasters such as coastal erosion and rising sea levels, landslides and flooding, and volcanic eruptions on Manam Island.”
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