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I wholeheartedly support Chief Ila Geno's personal intelligence. He is the living example to most of the public servants in Papua New Guinea. Value and ethical driven leadership is paramount in developing an economic democracy like PNG. The systematic and systemic corruption that cripples the pinnacle of our democracy is because our public servants are not upholding and practicing the ethical principles and conducting public administration. I hope many Papua New Guineans will change if they read this interesting article. Thank you Chief Ila for sharing your experience with us. May God bless.

Hi, I currently live in Lae PNG and am doing a research topic question on maternal health and infant mortality in PNG. I was wondering if you could please get in contact with me regarding some questions about issues and how they can be improved. Kind Regards, Rose

Steven thanks for your insightful comments. I hope you met our Impact Investment Manager Leata Alimoana Roberts who was also supporting the enterprises at the events last week in Auckland and Tauranga. As Pacific Rise implementing partner Pacific Trade Invest Australia is working closely with Pacific enterprises assisting them to scale and become investible. I also agree that there is a large need for pre investment business advisory support across the region and welcome the opportunity to engage with local firms who can deliver these professional services. Regards, Caleb.

Thanks Fiona. Great to get an insightful overview.

Thanks for the blog Caleb. I agree with your views on the changing approach of the diaspora’s support to their home economies. The shift from remittances to business investment -at a larger scale than the traditional micro-scale- is a trend we are seeing across our operations in the Pacific. I also agree with your views on the level of readiness of Pacific island business to take on private investment for impact purposes. Picking up your closing comments regarding development of sustainable Pacific businesses and the 'ecosystem' that these businesses can tap into to grow, I would like to highlight that in addition to the Australian Government funded projects referred to in your blog, it should be noted that the New Zealand Government is also incredibly invested in the Pacific diaspora’s contribution to the 'ecosystem' and economic development in the region. We here at DT Global (dt-global.com) are implementing the NZ MFAT-funded Business Link Pacific programme (businesslinkpacific.com) which is addressing the largely underdeveloped commercial market for local business advisory support services in the Pacific islands. At an event in Auckland last week run by Enterprise Angels, Purpose Capital and Pacific RISE there were a couple of Samoan businesses that were showcasing. The missing piece, as always seems to be the local ongoing business advisory support that enables these business to understand where they are, how they want to grow and what investment they want to take on. If this is provided from Australia or NZ to a “lucky few” using donor funding, our view is the local market for this kind of business advisory support never gets the chance to develop. An unashamed plug here for our current BLP-supported business advisory providers in Samoa: BDO Samoa, Isitolo Leota, SynBiz Financial Services and WE Accounting, who are all capable of providing pre-investment support to local firms and strongly utilise their diaspora networks in delivery of professional services. These local business advisory providers are developing a pipeline of local businesses that are interested to access finance and potentially develop their pitch to potential impact investors. Thanks again for the blog and the productive partnerships your team is facilitating. Cheers

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Hi Sandra I am Rebecca Manehanitai Studying MPhil at the Queensland University. My thesis is on preconception health and my research project is to explore preconception health education resources for adolescents in Solomon islands. I was wondering if you could help me with some data on what is the population/percentage of adolescents ( 18 -19 years ) for Honiara and Solomon Islands.

Hello Amanda, thanks for your interest in this study and the use of randomized control trials in the Pacific. As you mentioned, at the PNG update there were three presentations about RCTs in PNG. The presentations are available here: https://devpolicy.crawford.anu.edu.au/png-and-pacific-updates/png-update

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As a patriot, the setbacks in the development of the nation, are not down to the nation itself but to the very individuals who belong and make up this nation. As an advocate of The Voice Inc., I, personally commend the magnificent job that is of substantial value. In order to achieve the 2050 version, and to take back PNG, as proud dwellers with innate abilities to change the course of the progress, we need to develop the individuals’ character. If we as individuals change and see things from different angles, with different perspectives to prosper in individual life, and bring vast impacts on others, our ambition to take back PNG will be a success. Unless we as individuals change and impact our peers, we won’t make it through.

Hi Peter, Thank you for your query. This is the very nature of the problem unfortunately, there is currently no sound scientific evidence indicating marijuana to be of benefit to diabetic patients. This push by PLSI therefore risks compromising the health of diabetic patients despite the fact that there are a range of evidence-based treatments readily available through national ministries of health across the Pacific.

Is it scientifically proven that marijuana can help cure or control diabetes? It is illegal in the South Pacific island countries but it is illegally traded for millions of kina and, at the same time, diabetes is causing massacre in the Pacific. Just worried if this information is leaked to countries like PNG, it would be hard to control the cultivation of marijuana because it would provide them with a good moral and ethical use of it.