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Agricultural research and development on small islands & atolls: the Papua New Guinea experience [pdf ]

In the Pacific, food security in small islands and in atoll countries is increasingly under threat from a wide array of socio-cultural, environmental, and economic factors affecting their food production and supply systems. Given that their prospects for export-oriented agriculture and industrial development are severely limited, the solution appears to be to undertake research and development strategies that focus on improving subsistence agriculture and, where possible, cash income opportunities. This article discusses the research and development strategy adopted by the National Agricultural Research Institute in Papua New Guinea to strengthen food security in Papua New Guinea's small islands and atolls. (Louis M. Kurika, John E. Moxon and Meli Lolo, Pacific Economic Bulletin, October 2007)

http://peb.anu.edu.au/pdf/PEB22-3-kurika%20et%20al.pdf

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People's Perspectives on Land in PNG and the struggle to maintain these important relationships [pdf]

This issues paper by Steven Sukot, from the Bismark Ramu Group, is an extract from his presentation as the Papua New Guinea (PNG) NGO representative to AusAID's Pacific Land Conference in Port Vila, Vanuatu, June 2008.d Work Conference in June 2008. (AidWatch, 2008)

http://www.aidwatch.org.au/assets/aw01221/Issues%20Paper%20Land.pdf

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Papua New Guinea and the traditional culture

In Papua New Guinea (PNG) the traditional beliefs in witchcraft and sorcery are accompanied by a traditional culture of promiscuity. These two traditional cultural features are reflected now not only in an increasing AIDS death rate but also in increasing numbers of elderly men and women being found brutally murdered because they were blamed for having caused these AIDS death[s]. (Drum Beat, August 2008)

http://forums.comminit.com/viewtopic.php?t=105027&style=2

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Gender-Based Violence Contributing To Spread Of HIV In Papua New Guinea, Amnesty International Report Says

Violence against women is contributing to the spread of HIV in Papua New Guinea, Amnesty International said in its recent annual report. (Medical News Today, June 2008)

http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/109676.php

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Administrative theory, interpersonal relations and anti-corruption practice in Papua New Guinea

'Corruption' may be the dark side of the relationship between personal relationships and the work of organisations. The paper considers how studies of Public Administration, and related ideas such as bureaucracy, management and governance, have viewed personal relationships. It then links these views to corresponding approaches to preventing corruption. The third part of the paper looks at anti corruption activity in PNG in light of the relationship between personal relationships, the work of organisations and broader ideas of the public interest.(Peter Lamour, ANU, 2007)

http://www.crawford.anu.edu.au/degrees/pogo/discussion_papers/PDP07-02.pdf

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Child sexual abuse and commercial sexual exploitation of children in the Pacific: A regional report

This regional report is a synthesis of the findings of each country study - Fiji, Kiribati, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands and Vanuatu - which were conducted between October 2004 and June 2005.2 The purpose of this synthesis report is not to single out any one group for ridicule but rather to break the long-running silence surrounding the incidence, extent and nature of sexual abuse and sexual exploitation against children in the Pacific region and to prompt open, constructive community debate and new policies that aim to end the suffering of victims. (UNICEF, UNESCAP and ECPAT International, December 2006)

http://www.unicef.org/eapro/Pacific_CSEC_report.pdf

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Forest Minister Tries To Gag Debate

Forest Minister, Patrick Pruaitch, is resorting to ever more desperate measures to try and silence the debate over Papua New Guinea's notoriously corrupt and destructive logging industry. After attempts to prevent discussion of key issues spectacularly backfired at last months Forest Law Enforcement Seminar organised by the PNG Forest Authority, the Minister has now demanded that Forestry Officials do not 'participate, facilitate or engage' in any 'seminars, conferences or studies' that are not personally approved by himself. (Masalai i tokaut, 20 November 2006)

http://img.scoop.co.nz/media/pdfs/0611/Masalai49ForestMinistergags.pdf

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Gender and microfinance in Bougainville: A case study

This article describes the experiences of the authors in raising gender awareness among participants in the Bougainville Microfinance Scheme (BMFS) in its initial stages of development. (J Byford, G Guanara, Development Bulletin, 2002)

http://devnet.anu.edu.au/GenderPacific/pdfs/07_gen_status_byford.pdf

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Still Making Their Own Rules: Ongoing Impunity for Police Beatings, Rape, and Torture in Papua New Guinea

Children and others in police custody in Papua New Guinea are often raped and tortured, despite recent juvenile justice reform efforts. Police routinely lock children up with adults, even when separate space is available, placing them at risk of rape and other forms of violence. Police rarely provide children with medical care, even when seriously injured. This 50-page report is a follow-up to Human Rights Watch's 2005 report on police violence against children. The report tracks developments in 2005 and 2006, and determines that abusive officials rarely face punishment. Police abuse - particularly the targeting of sex workers and boys and men perceived to be homosexual, as well as harassment of people carrying condoms - may worsen PNG's AIDS epidemic by undermining HIV prevention efforts. (Human Rights Watch, October 2006)

http://hrw.org/reports/2006/png1006/

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Christian Custom and the Church as Structure in 'Weak States' in Melanesia

This paper investigates certain characteristic associations in the governance of three of the four independent states of Melanesia: Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, and Vanuatu. First, the seemingly paradoxical amalgam of Christianity and tradition or custom which serves as an uneasy ideological basis for national unity and identity. Second, the always ambivalent, often tense intersections of Christianity and 'politics'. Finally, the significance of the churches, with their intensely local roots but broadly global reach, as alternative structures in the context of ineffective or even absent state institutions. (Bronwen Douglas, Australian National University, Paper given at the international conference, Civil Society, Religion & Global Governance: Paradigms of Power & Persuasion, 1-2 September 2005, Canberra)

http://law.anu.edu.au/nissl/douglas.pdf

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Impacts of HIV/AIDS 2005-2025 in Papua New Guinea, Indonesia and East Timor

This paper describes the outcomes of a collaborative study of the epidemiological, social and economic risks and vulnerabilities related to HIV/AIDS in the sub-region incorporating Papua New Guinea, Indonesia and East Timor. (AusAid, September 2006)

http://www.ausaid.gov.au/publications/pubout.cfm?Id=6912_3210_5427_6152_4107

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South Pacific countries sound alarm at UN debate on impact of global warming

The South Pacific nations of Papua New Guinea and Kiribati have used their addresses to the annual debate of the General Assembly to voice concern about rising sea levels in the region and to urge United Nations Member States to do much more to reduce global warming. (UN News, 20 September 2006)

http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=19918&Cr=general&Cr1=debate

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Bulldozing Progress: Human Rights Abuse and Corruption in PNG's Large Scale Logging Industries

The logging industry in Papua New Guinea is dominated by a handful of Malaysian companies and is is synonymous with political corruption, police racketeering and the brutal repression of workers, women and those who question its ways. Its operations routinely destroy the food sources, water supplies and cultural property of those same communities. They provide a breeding ground for arms smuggling, corruption and violence across the country. In return, the industry generates no lasting economic benefit to forest communities, considerable long-term cost and a modest 5 per cent contribution to the national budget. A concerted international effort backed by credible enforcement agencies is now needed to reform the industry and restore the human and economic rights of PNG forest communities. (Australian Conservation Foundation, 2006)

http://www.acfonline.org.au/uploads/res_ACF-CELCOR_full.pdf#search=%22Bulldozing%20%22

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Papua New Guinea: Country Strategy and Program 2006-2010

The Country Strategy and Program (CSP) is prepared in active consultation with developing member country stakeholders: the government, NGOs, civil society groups, the private sector and other development agencies. It is usually prepared once every five years. A CSP update is prepared every year to reflect any important country developments and adjustments to the program. (Asian Development Bank, June 2006)

http://www.adb.org/Documents/CSPs/PNG/2006/default.asp

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The Church in Papua New Guinea

A look at both the positive and negative impacts of the Church on society in this Pacific nation. (Bonnie Flaws, Just Change, July 2006)

http://www.dev-zone.org/downloads/jc6bonnie.pdf

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Small Arms Survey 2006: Unfinished Business

This is an independent research project at the Graduate Institute of International Studies in Geneva, Switzerland. This edition features case studies on small arms violence in Papua New Guinea and Colombia, armed groups in West Africa, and the Lord's Resistance Army in northern Uganda. The final chapter "Angry Young Men" considers why young men account for the lion's share of global small arms violence. Summaries of all 12 Chapters are available. (July 2006)

http://hei.unige.ch/sas/files/sas/publications/yearb2006.html

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Transparency International Papua New Guinea

With its vision to protect the integrity of the nation, the Papua New Guinea chapter of Transparency International (TI) is raising public awareness of the adverse effects on society of dishonesty and mismanagement. With the support of its coalition partners, TI PNG aims to curtail corruption and build a just society.

http://www.transparencypng.org.pg/

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The Pacific: Online Communities

Within this website there are websites for Australia, the Cook Islands, Fiji, Guam, Hawaii, Kiribati, Nauru, New Caledonia, New Zealand, Norfolk Island, Niue, Marshall Islands, Mariana Islands, Micronesia States, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tahiti, Tokelau, Tonga, Tuvalu, Palau, Papua New Guinea, and Vanuatu. The aim of each website is to establish an Online Community where people can chat, share information and relax, while preserving valuable information for generations to come. There is a news section, to inform members on what's going on; a forum, which allows members to find or share information; an articles section, divided into the categories of general information, language, myths and legends, and recipes and history; a review section, so that by sharing experiences, people can make informed decisions to use or avoid certain products and services and media; an entertainment section, where you can play games, listen to music from or watch videos from musicians of that country. You can also chat with other website members using the Live Chat feature.

http://www.thepacific.co.nz/

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Pacific 2020: Challenges and opportunities for growth

Pacific 2020 highlights major challenges facing the Pacific, Papua New Guinea and East Timor in the next 15 years. It emphasises the importance of economic growth to surmount these problems and provides practical policy options in nine key sectors to maximise growth. The report was produced as part of the Pacific 2020 project in collaboration with numerous individuals and organisations from throughout the Pacific islands region and further a field. (AusAid, May 2006)

http://www.ausaid.gov.au/publications/pubout.cfm?Id=219_173_9143_7522_6433

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NZAID Field Blog

NZAID's field blog gives an up-close and up-to-date insight on the realities of aid on the ground. NZAID staff will update the blog as they travel to the field to visit NZ funded programmes and projects. The first blog will be written by NZAID Communication Manager, Catrina McDiarmid, who is travelling to Papua New Guinea on a visit focussing on the Millennium Development Goals and the Pacific, HIV/AIDS, and other sexual and reproductive health issues. (NZAID, 2006)

http://nzaid.blogspot.com/

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Papua New Guinea's sex disease time bomb ticks away

In this article the journalist visits the under resourced and overcrowded Port Moresby General Hospital. Since mid-2001, Aids has been the single most common cause of death at this hospital, a fact usually kept secret from the patients' relatives because of the associated stigma. The future's worst-case scenario is that more than half a million people will be HIV positive by 2015 - with the impact on the country's development devastating. Who will be the teachers, the political leaders, the farmers? Who will care for the orphaned children? Papua New Guinea's particular disease is the gap between health policy and delivery and a shortage of people who know how to bridge it. The article looks at the role of donors, including New Zealand, the government, and the church, in dealing with the problems. Also see sidebars 'HIV a development issue for PNG citizens' and 'Where guns and rape rule'.(Julie Middleton, 15 May 2006)

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/story.cfm?c_id=1&ObjectID=10381782

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Signs of hope amid Papua New Guinea's need

This article looks at the debate between churches in Papua New Guinea on how to handle the AIDS epidemic. It also profiles several Papua New Guineans that have received help from various NGO and NZAID schemes, including a microfinance project, a farm, and a project to improve the awareness and safety of Port Moresby sex workers, and 'sensitise' police to HIV and human rights issues. (Julie Middleton, New Zealand Herald, 6 May 2006)

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/story.cfm?c_id=1&ObjectID=10381939

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Local and Global Women's Rights in the Pacific

This article reflects on the discussions by women living in the Pacific (from Fiji Islands, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tonga and Vanuatu) who attended the Association for Women's rights in Development Forum. These small island countries of the South Pacific are usually unknown entities to the women's movement globally. Yet, as the author shows, many of their specific local issues are integrally linked to global concerns. (Vanessa Griffen, Development Journal no.49, Society for International Development, 2006)

http://www.palgrave-journals.com/development/journal/v49/n1/full/1100223a.html

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Meri Kirap, Women Arise! Promoting women's rights in Papua New Guinea

In this personal piece of writing, an Australian activist and film-maker shares her experience of 20 years of work with women's rights in Papua New Guinea. (Robyn Slarke, Development Journal no.49, Society for International Development, 2006)

http://www.palgrave-journals.com/development/journal/v49/n1/full/1100239a.html

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Pain in paradise

At least 65,000 Papua New Guineans are HIV-positive - the highest number of carriers in the Pacific, and the rate shows no signs of slowing; there were an estimated 16,000 carriers in 2003. The World Health Organisation (WHO) has declared it a generalised epidemic. Religious leaders who decry the use of condoms, despite many of their representatives' brave ministries on the ground, join an impressive line-up of barriers to dealing with the epidemic in Papua New Guinea. This article looks at efforts to combat the spread of AIDS in the island nation. (Sarah Barnett, Listener, 20 May 2006)

http://www.listener.co.nz/issue/3445/features/6128/pain_in_paradise.html

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MP study tour explores reproductive health and poverty links

This Press Release from MP Steve Chadwick announces the upcoming April visit of three New Zealand MPs to Papua New Guinea in April on a study tour focusing on poverty in the Pacific, and related issues including HIV/AIDS, gender inequality, maternal and child health, and the environment.

http://www.dev-zone.org/downloads/PNG.doc

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Customary landowners rights under threat in Papua New Guinea (PDF)

(Aid Watch) by Lisa Rusanen. Pacific Watch-Land Rights, December 13 2005. This background paper looks at the issue of land registration in Papua New Guinea. During the 1990s there have been two attempts to register customary land but these were not successful mainly due to opposition from Papua New Guineans who feared alienation from their land. This has meant a more indirect approach has been required by those pushing for land registration. This paper focuses on arguments for and against land registration at the recent Land and Development Symposium in Lae. One issue is the rights of the customary land owners to control their own land and resources. This is being attacked by avenues such as amendments to Foresty and Mining legislation. The paper summarises these developments.

http://www.aidwatch.org.au/assets//aw00838/png%20land%20dec%2005.PDF#search=%22Customary%20landowners%20rights%20under%20threat%20in%20Papua%20New%20Guinea%20(PDF)%22

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"Making Their Own Rules" Police Beatings, Rape, and Torture of Children in Papua New Guinea

Human Rights Watch, 2005. This report is based on research in Papua New Guinea in September 2004, as well as additional information gathered by HRW researchers between May 2004 and July 2005. Papua New Guinea's serious crime problem is being met with a violent police response. Children, who make up nearly half of the country's some 5.6 million people, are especially vulnerable. Brutal beatings, rape, and torture of children, as well as confinement in sordid police lockup, are widespread police practices. Although even high level government officials acknowledge this, almost nothing has been done to stop it.

http://hrw.org/reports/2005/png0905/

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Valuing customary land in Papua New Guinea [PDF]

(AidWatch) This paper discusses the economic value of customary land in Papua New Guinea. Data from pilot surveys of land use in the Eastern Highlands Province and Madang Province is used to engage with the national debates over land. An opportunity cost evaluation approach demonstrates that low financial returns mislead and lease valuations probably greatly underestimate the real value of productive land in PNG. Average family farm cash income ranges widely, but is often only around 1000 Kina per year, on farm land of about one hectare. However when that figure is combined with the subsistence food and housing value of the land, the equivalent value may be well in excess of 15,000 Kina. Lease valuations may only be 50 Kina per hectare, plus uncertain royalties; and some have been less than this. An 'education effect' may help those employed and in small business gain similar or greater incomes from their farm land, than the 'full-time' farmers. Customary landowners would do well to consider fuller valuations of their land, and the range of possible income supplementation options. The idea of a choice between poverty-struck subsistence farming or corporate development (logging, plantation cropping) seems to be a false dichotomy. There is evidence to suggest that customary land owners would do best to look at supplementing (rather than abolishing) their subsistence practices and maintaining (rather than alienating) their customary lands.

http://www.aidwatch.org.au/assets/aw00853/Anderson-land-png2.pdf

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PNG 30 years on the shadow of Australia still looms

On 15 September 1975 the Australian flag was lowered for the last time in Papua New Guinea. It was a momentous occasion and a historic day for PNG, but thirty years on, the shadow of Australia still looms large in this unique country.

http://www.aidwatch.org.au/assets/aw00798/png%2030%20yars%20on.pdf

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South Pacific MDG Indicator Country Summaries

(SPC) For the following Pacific Islands nations: Cook Islands, Federated States of Micronesia, Fiji Islands, Republic of Kiribati, Marshall Islands, Republic of Nauru, Niue, Republic of Palau, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tokelau, Kingdom of Tonga, Tuvalu, Republic of Vanuatu.

http://www.spc.int/mdgs/PIC_reports/reports.htm

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Plural Society in Peril: Migration, Economic Change, and the Papua Conflict (PDF)

By Rodd McGibbon. East-West Center Washington, 2004 This study looks at the ways in which large-scale migration and rapid economic change have resulted in separatist and ethnic conflict in Papua. It describes Papua New Guinea's experience of socioeconomic change, beginning with history of contact with the colonial and postcolonial state and the demographic shifts that resulted in an changing plural society. The second part of the study uses statistical data to describe the main features of contemporary society in Papua. It identifies the main fault lines of class, ethnicity, tribalism, and religion along which conflict has surfaced in recent years.

http://www.eastwestcenter.org/stored/pdfs/PS013.pdf

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Gun-Running in Papua New Guinea: From Arrows to Assault Weapons in the Southern Highlands

Small Arms Survey, Philip Alpers, 2005. In the volatile Southern Highlands Province (SHP) of Papua New Guinea (PNG), approximately 2,450 factory-made firearms are held by private owners. These include between 500 and 1,040 high-powered weapons, most of which are assault rifles. Very few of the guns in SHP were smuggled from foreign countries. Instead, police and soldiers within PNG supplied the most destructive firearms used in crime and conflict. Gun-running from other parts of PNG to the Southern Highlands is financed and facilitated by politicians and civil servants up to the highest levels of the educated elite. This report considers the human costs of armed violence and measures attempting to curb it.

http://www.smallarmssurvey.org/files/sas/publications/spe_reports_pdf/2005-sr5-papuanewguinea.pdf

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Implementation of ECP at root of Australia - PNG problems

AID/WATCH, 2005-05-06. Leading aid watchdog AID/WATCH, has hit back at suggestions it is fomenting dissent between PNG and Australia, suggesting that the implementation of the Enhanced Cooperation Program (ECP) was ill-conceived, reactive and a mere band aid for the problems of law and justice in PNG.

http://www.aidwatch.org.au/index.php?current=1&display=aw00709&display_item=2

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Papua New Guinea Tourism and Business Directory

A useful online resource for business and tourism information for Papua New Guinea.

http://www.pngbd.com/

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Melanesian Pidgin English Resources

An annotated bibliography of Melanesian Pidgin English dictionaries, phrase books, and study guides.

http://thslone.tripod.com/MPEB.html

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A Grand Deceit: The World Bank's Claims of 'Good Governance' in Papua New Guinea (pdf)

(AID/WATCH) By Dr. Tim Anderson, August, 2003. An extensive critical analysis of the World Bank 'Good Governance' policy which includes case studies of the export model of development and detailed analysis of the impacts of the Good Governance model in PNG.

http://www.aidwatch.org.au/index.php?current=68&display=aw00492&display_item=1

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Australia - Papua New Guinea Enhanced Cooperation Program

AusAID, 30 June 2004. Australia and Papua New Guinea have entered into a historic package of enhanced cooperation to help PNG address its key challenges. The Enhanced Cooperation Program (ECP) will operate as a five-year package of assistance. It was formalised on Wednesday 30 June 2004 when the foreign ministers of Australia and PNG signed a joint agreement at a ceremony in Port Moresby. The ECP signals a new era for the Australia/PNG partnership and will see Australians working side-by-side with Papua New Guineans in the areas of policing, law and justice and economic and public sector management.

http://www.ausaid.gov.au/hottopics/topic.cfm?Id=2214_2235_3508_3213_7448

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Centre for Environmental Law and Community Rights Inc. (CELCOR)

CELCOR strives to protect and assert legal rights and equitable access to and control of natural resource use and promote community based natural resource management through effective law and policies in Papua New Guinea. The main aim of CELCOR is to provide legal assistance to landowners affected by large scale environmentally destructive projects including industrial logging, mining and oil palm plantation developments and and to promote community based natural resource management through promotion of effective law and and policies.

http://www.celcor.org.pg/

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PNG BUAI

Papua New Guinea Books Useful Articles & Information on research level electronic materials. PNG BUAI seeks to provide a virtual home for a growing collection of research level electronic material on and from Papua New Guinea.

http://www.pngbuai.com/

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Papua New Guinea and the Pacific: A Development Perspective (PDF)

AusAID, 8 October 2003. This paper, prepared by AusAID, provides an assessment of key development issues in Papua New Guinea and the Pacific. It focuses on key issues of governance, including leadership and capacity, corruption, lawlessness and instability, and the role and effectiveness of aid within the broader development financing context. It concludes with a discussion on the emerging agenda for collaborative development in the region and a more substantial hands-on role for Australia, including for the aid program.

http://www.ausaid.gov.au/hottopics/topic.cfm?Id=5020_6121_2038_584_2673

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New Guinea 'was agricultural pioneer'

Katie Mantell 11 July 2003 Source: SciDev.Net Communities in Papua New Guinea developed agriculture independently of other cultures about 10,000 to 6,000 years ago, according to new research. Data from the Kuk Swamp in the highlands of Papua New Guinea presented in this week's journal Science suggests that people there were farming banana and taro (a tuberous root with edible leaves) before outsiders reached New Guinea. These findings may end a long-standing debate on the origins of New Guinea agriculture. They also suggest that New Guinea - along with Mesopotamia and up to three spots in the New World - may be one of the few places in the world where people clearly developed agriculture.

http://www.scidev.net/News/index.cfm?fuseaction=readNews&itemid=908&language=1

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Annan welcomes decision by 4 countries to send transition team to Bougainville

UN News Service, 16 June - United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan today welcomed the decision by Australia, New Zealand, Fiji and Vanuatu to dispatch a small civilian transition team to Bougainville after the group currently monitoring the peace process there leaves the Papua New Guinean island.

http://www0.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=7436&Cr=bougainville&Cr1=

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Melanesia: The Future of Tradition

By Weiner, James F. Issue 26.3, Cultural Survival. "Despite the political, economic, and physical hazards brought about by Melanesia's increasing exposure to a global world, local communities have responded in ways that augment and enhance their cultural identity and uniqueness. Eager to embrace western modes of life, they nevertheless insist on doing so within the framework of their customary laws and their still profound attachment to their ancestral lands. The constitutional protection afforded their cultural laws in the independent countries of Melanesia is the most secure bulwark against threats to their cultural survival." James Weiner has been lecturer in anthropology at The Australian National University and the University of Manchester and professor of anthropology at the University of Adelaide. Author of four books and many articles on the Foi, he now works as an independent consultant in Australia.

http://www.cs.org/publications/csq/csq-article.cfm?id=1559&highlight=Melanesia:%20The%20Future%20of%20Tradition

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ATprojects

ATprojects is a Goroka-based NGO which works with communities, other NGOs, and the provincial government in the Eastern Highlands Province of Papua New Guinea. Its mission is to enable rural people to develop and use skills and technologies that give them more control over their lives and which contribute to the sustainable development of their communities.

http://www.global.net.pg/atprojects/

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PNGDEV

Is an email mailing list that is intended to provide an additional way for those who are interested in development here in PNG to collaborate. It is a forum for discussions of relevance to development here, for exchanges of questions and answers, and for announcements of events, products, and job openings relevant to the development community. Above all, the list is intended to be a place to share resources of all kinds in a quick and efficient manner. Anyone can join, regardless of where you reside; the list is unmoderated, and of course, it's free.

http://www.global.net.pg/atprojects/pngdev.htm

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PNG dismissive of critical report, author to be investigated

RNZI News, 13 March 2003. The Papua New Guinea government has rejected a report by an Australian think tank depicting a gloomy future for PNG for failing to take into account policies introduced to turn the country around. The Chief Secretary to the Government, Joshua Kalinoe, says efforts have been made to solve infrastructure problems, build up the commodities and mineral industries and attract foreign investment. In a report, called "Papua New Guinea on the Brink", the Centre for Independent Studies in Sydney described PNG as a nation wracked with corruption, crime and a disintegrating infrastructure.

http://www.rnzi.com/pages/news.php?op=getarchive&day=13&month=03&year=2003

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BOUGAINVILLE: Blood on our Hands. Australia's Role in PNG's War

By Naomi Sharp, March 1997. ISBN: 1 876051 10. The report begins with a detailed analysis of the origins, development and impact of the conflict in Bougainville. The war worsened considerably in 1996 as the PNG government chose to abandon attempts to peacefully negotiate a settlement, instead launching "Operation High Speed II".

http://www.signposts.uts.edu.au/articles/Bougainville/

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KABAR IRIAN (Irian News)

Founded in 1996 as a small personalised mailing list with about 56 members we have grown into a 1000 + membership mailing list and web-zine with even more readers. We attempt to publish as many views as we can so that people can make an informed decision about the politics and issues of Irian/West Papua.

http://www.kabar-irian.com/

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A new left emergest in PNG; Bougainville enters a new - perhaps "post-war" - phase

In COCKROACH!: At the time of writing we can note a series of almost contradictory, conflicting, developments in both Papua New Guinea and on Bougainville. Although this is still less clear than in highly capitalised countries, it seems that a real LEFT/RIGHT political separation has developed in at least parts of Papua New Guinea. This development may soon greatly affect PNG's long highly "personalised" political landscape. In the past, in the absence of firm political allignements, it has been easy for foreign based Capital - particularly in the mining, forestry and fishing sectors, to "buy up" - to openly corrupt - PNG politicians, unrestrained by any real party allegeances or clear-cut ideology

http://www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/24/080.html

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The Insider: Papua New Guinea

Four Corners reporter Andrew Fowler meets a whistleblower who alleges that the World Bank was doomed to fail in its mission to secure anti-corruption reform in return for crucial loan funds.

http://www.abc.net.au/4corners/stories/s590512.htm

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European Community - Papua New Guinea Country Strategy Paper (pdf)

Country Strategy paper and National Indicative Programme for the period 2002-2007 (PDF).

http://dev-zone.net/downloads/2801pg_csp_en.pdf

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Papua New Guinea Program Profiles 2001-2002 (AusAID)

Details of the many projects and activities that make up the Australian aid program for Papua New Guinea (PDF).

http://www.ausaid.gov.au/publications/pubout.cfm?Id=8256_8161_145_5136_1655

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The Papua New Guinea Eco-Forestry Forum

The PNG Eco-Forestry Forum is a not-for-profit incorporated association formed in 1999 with the goal of promoting integrated rural community development and sustainable resource use through a viable and sustainable eco-forestry industry. The PNG Eco-Forestry Forum has core funding from The MacArthur Foundation and receives additional support from the PNG Community Development Scheme and Voluntary Service Overseas.

http://www.ecoforestry.org.pg/index.html

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United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Papua New Guinea

The UNDP country office in Port Moresby was officially opened in 1975 when Papua New Guinea gained independence from Australia. The focus of UNDP's technical assistance over the past 23 years has been on human resources development and institution-building in a broad range of areas including economic management, governance, agriculture, inland fisheries, environment and natural resources management and education.

http://www.undp.org.pg/

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Papua New Guinea WWW Virtual Library

Links to topics such as national affairs, research resources, academic institutions, culture, environment, social developmenteconomy, media, development and aid projects, provinces, natural disasters and the Sandline affair.

http://coombs.anu.edu.au/SpecialProj/PNG/Index.htm

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