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My first try on the name: Keeping Ante-Natal Youth Engaged (KANYE). This failed project attempted to encourage ante-natal care visits by engaging older children to encourage their mother to seek care. It turns out mothers (and parents) the world round don't like being told what to do by their 8 year olds. Thanks for writing this - I teach international development courses, think I may use it in class this year. If you find yourself in DC holler (you can find my email on danhonig.info), maybe we can get you to do aid-as-the-Kardashians live?

Exellent piece of work! Gives me a better and clear understanding of the differences between political stability and instability in the PNG context since 1975 and how the Govt systems are manipulated in PNG politics espexially under the O'Niel Govt. Thank You.

Refreshing analogy!

Good information for ordinary Papua New Guinea citizens. Thank you Michael.

So good. Though I feel like STORMI should be something related to climate change adaptation or disaster resilience? STOrm Resilience Mapping Initiative? Strengthening Trajectories for Online Resource Mobilisation Integration? TRUE looks like something in the anticorruption space, but I can only come up with Transforming Rural Under-Employment. SAINT would probably be run by a Catholic NGO, and might stand for Securing Adult and Infant Nutritional Targets.

Hi Elizabeth, thanks for the questions. 1. Yes, our system of government does gives the prime minister leverage. The Westminster parliament gives the executive side the right to distribute ministries and to a certain extent control resources like DSIP and PSIP (executive monopoly over resource distribution). MPs move to the government side to access these portfolios (and vice-ministeries, parliamentary committees, chairman of parliamentary committees etc). Only the executive has the right to distribute these positions. As I discussed in the post, the executive also has influence over distribution of DSIP and PSIPs. 2. Is our democracy at stake? It's subjective, different people would have different opinions. I don't think it's at stake, but it has a very negative impact on development. Style of leadership: I think what we're seen is the increasing role of the prime minister. Again the Westminster system elevates the role of the PM above those of his peers. In PNG, this seems to be taken very seriously. The PM acts: fires MPs from portfolios, demotes, appoints, re-appoints etc. This has been referred to elsewhere as the presidentialisation of democracy. That is, a parliamentary system which operates as though it is a presidential system.

Hilarious! This has softened/prepared the ground for Part Two containing real examples and case studies.

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Very good paper. It's a good information on Prime Minister's of PNG and interestingly the discussion relating to grace period. Reading through it, my curiosity raises as to; - what is the underlying influence for O'Neil, 1. Is it the set up of our Govt system that gives him that leverage? 2. I'm interested in the type of leadership that each Prime Minister portraits and whether our democracy is at stake? Thanks Michael for sharing.

Thanks for sharing this article. As a researcher myself posters are always an effective tool for sharing ones research. Did you translate the posters into the local language? From my experience in presenting posters, large blocks of text in posters tend to stifle passers by. If they are confounded with any statement or diagram they will stop viewing the poster. Simple annotated diagrams are key (the ones in your poster are excellent). Was the poster that you presented to the community a toned down version of one that would be used at a conference? As a last point, can you share where you obtained the Port Moresby GIS maps? Thanks in advance.

A good paper. Informative and counter-intuitive.

Well done Michael. Way to go. And great for sharing that avenue for other academics to have their work improved and published. Best! John Kamasua Social Work Strand