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I am a concerned student and I have been working hard on this proposal for a waste management project in my dads village and cant get any support from the Central Provincial Government funding's, IDG,DSIP,PSIP. So as high tide bringing the huge amount of waste into the village/community. Your project to convert waste to energy is really interesting. Keep up the good work!! Morea Morris Hitolo POM Central Province

Your joint article on the relational state in Bougainville is insightful, eloquent and so refreshing. Having worked in PNG and other weak states in international development and witnessed the challenges local bureaucrats face, it is so wonderful to FINALLY read a much needed critique of the dominant negative characterisations of local bureaucrats (although there are some there are not enough) and, as you say, start to consider the complexity of their environment and their contributions in a meaningful way. Thank you for a brilliant contribution..

Totally agree with your sentiments. Its not just the Department of Planning and Monitoring that needs to do more auditing on the ground. DIRD and AGO also need to be more resourced and be more proactive. Hopefully, our new website www.ddawatch.org can also help provide more transparency. Eddie Tanago ACT NOW!

Thank you @Stephen Howes & @Huiyuan Liu for this valuable entry in regards to Pacific island (PI) statistics. Great to know about the method used - 'augmented ancestry' as it addresses some of the barriers faced by the different industries when they want to look at the numbers for PI communities. I am of PI cultural heritage and it is so useful when we are putting together a narrative in order to address issues as we are over-represented in poor health outcomes and incarceration rates. I was wondering if you would have the numbers for the individual states or if you can point me to any other research/studies/sources that would give me more specific data for each state. Thank you in advance for any help you can offer.

Thank you Nelson, I look forward to reading it. For others who are interested, the article is here: https://www.thenational.com.pg/time-to-revisit-melanesian-rule-by-consensus/

A great and timely reminder to realign and refocus on the Pacific Way and Vision. And, this calls for special awareness and inclusion; genuine participation, exchange and diplomacy.

Any latest update on the PEV .. New zealand opening theirs on the 1st of August

Terence, Let me invite you to reading an article by Alfred Kaiabe, a former Member of Parliament, which came out on The National newspaper of Friday, July 28, 2023. It was entitled 'Time to revisit Melanesian rule by consensus". Thank you.

We are working in the field of anticorruption in context to development and governance. We look forward to the support and association from the world over.

Thank you for this commentary and the book. I was very happy and inspired to read this. Hopefully there will continue to be similar critical academic perspectives and field-based qualitative research on the Pacific labor mobility schemes, especially taking into account the 'anecdotes' and first-hand lived experiences of the migrants.

i maua akia just want to say on behalf of my land toru Koai koai that i have a social mapping for my land of Papua LNG

A long term peacebuilding strategy that is mostly overseen is a legal ban of child corporal punishment. According to peace researcher Franz Jedlicka there is a linkage between a widely accepted violence in the families and wars. That is also true regarding violence against women (Valeria Hudson et.al: Sex and World Peace). In PNG corporal punishment of children is still allowed. Renate