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Monitoring and evaluation for the District Services Improvement Program (DSIP) in Papua New Guinea 🇵🇬 (PNG) is very poor despite having in place the Department of National Planning and Monitoring (DNPM). The DNPM office is centralized in Waigani, too far away from the districts, and this combined with an absence of an effective monitoring program leaves a vacuum in the monitoring space for government programs and funds. What we need for a way forward is a system whereby reports on acquittal and projects coming from the districts into the Office of Rural Development (ORD) are made published in the public domain for the people to evaluate the performance of their MPs and district administration officers. This will be the most effective incentive on the performance of the DSIP in PNG. As a taxpayer, I would want to see my sacrificed hard-earned money effectively making development impact - not squandered by politicians and their cronies for their selfish, popularity-seeking programs.

This is a highly relevant feature to development and governance overall. I would be following this now with great interest.

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I am forced to respond to Dr Henry Ivarature on his critical analyses of my autobiography A MATTER OF CONSCINCE OPERATION RAUSIM KWIK. As I figured that the good Dr from his comments clearly indicates a person consumed by prejudice not only on my book but clear distaste for me. As an academic he was not objective in his analysis of my book. He failed to comment on the consequences in the use of mercenary force under the Constitution of Papua New Guinea as the raising an illegal army was unlawful. The deal was clearly corrupt and criminal as the government officers and politician who gave permission to kill unarmed civilians. He failed to point out behavior of the Prime Minister and his Defence Minister and Deputy Prime Minister as the Deputy Prime Minister unilaterally signed a contract committing USD38m to Sandline and serious breach of Finance Management Act. The Dr asserted that I was part of making the decision to hire Sandline Mercenaries. On record I was ordered to engage them by PM and his Deputy and Minister for Defence. It was imposed on me. He asserted that I was responsible for the Kangu massacre, assassination of Theodore Miriung. It happened in my time but I did not order these murders. In fact the situation was out of control and it bothered my conscience. The good Dr said my story was a tale and oddly structure. That is an insult to me as a soldier and a military commander and an international author. My book is not an academic book subjected to strict academic standards and asserted that they the tales tales of Sandline is not complete. Over 2 million people have access to my book on Amazon Books. I dare him or any other person to write an equivalent account of Sandline and Operation Rausim Kwik as I was the authority and main protagonist. Nobody will be able to as the subject is beyond their limits. In all respect Dr. Henry Ivarature showed clear dislike for me as a person and his comments clearly reflects his prejudice and questions his own conscience about whether he agrees that an illegal army can murder thousands of civilians just to open a mine pit and allow mercenaries to enter the Pacific. What would Dr Henry Ivarature do if he was placed in my situation as Commander PNGDF? He clearly lacks wisdom and foresight and I am force to defend myself about my own conscience. I sleep comfortably at night because Operation Rasuim Kwik had triggered off unprecedented peace on Bougainville and even the rebel commander Hon Ismael Toroama is now a legitimate President of Bougainville and indeed they have a bright future if the can overcome major constitutional challenges. Our collective effort was t save humanity. As for me the book was selected among only 48 books last year at the Miami Book Show to be nominated for a Book to Screen Pitch in February this year in Hollywood where my book was highly rated and recommended for a movie. I was sworn to serve my COUNTRY with DUTY and HONOR and I did exactly that. I wrote a book based on my own thoughts and freedom of conscience in my own words and hand.

Hope they say yes

Hopping this bill passes by Senate, waiting with high hopes

the Pacific Engagement visa need to be delivered

it has not yet been passed thru paliment in australia

Interesting findings ... the initial lack of empowerment of women might have contributed to limited initial local benefits, but that seemed to shift over time ... the flow to the PG from the mine, and from the ITCS would be interesting to assess, plus economic benefits to other communities, eg those selling fresh produce the the mine families ... and the benefit, if disrupted, from improved incomes on health and the Paela hospital ... It's interesting, by contrast, at a CIMC forum in Mendi in the mid-2010s, a group of Hela women were preaching the need for improved education opportunities as a potential benefit from the PNGLNG development, but bemoaned that their children (notably the boys) were rejecting education, suggesting they'd all be enjoying the lifestyle from resource-based contracts, royalties etc ...there, it seemed the mothers were aware but not the sumatim ...

I'm one of interested carbon trade in West Sepik Province.

Please when is the Australia quota for Samoa

How to apply for PEV