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Well done. Very good.

I think that it is best the government as well as a corporate house and all of the citizens must work together to implement this design. As our vision 2050 aims to have a healthy population then. However I am interested about the design

Appreciate Dr. F Hukula such information really not going into rural and isolated islands is there anyway that this could be done. From Alotau

Thanks, Ayella - I've just sent you an email with some more information. You can also refer to our submission guidelines here: https://devpolicy.org/join-us/ Camilla

Interesting article and I will make sure to read your book. I should comment though that ExxonMobil did not build a hospital at Komo, rather a hospital building was constructed by a politician using LNG-generated development funds to pay his own construction company at highly inflated prices to construct an empty hospital. To my mind that highlights the responsibilities of corporations that choose to operate in corrupt political environments. At present corporations can too easily distance themselves from the corruption that results from their activities.

I so enjoyed reading this Fiona - thank you for such a thoughtful and informative perspective. PNG needs more of these narratives - narratives which tell a deeper story of change and progress, on the same journey they every other country is still trodding - how do we engage with gender equality in ways that work in our various cultures.

Well done Dr Hukula, hope to catch up with you next week.

Hello Camilla I am also conducting similar research in Uganda. Can we discuss how we can share the findings on Devpolicy blog. Ayella Fred Brown

I think it's very important for people to know that the pacific needs help from all of us.

Thanks Paul, great to receive your feedback. When we conducted the research, on more than one occasion, we observed situations where although formal mechanisms for delivering and monitoring education were absent or failing, informal responses (such as those from parents, the surrounding community and teachers) were thriving. We elaborate more on this in the Discussion Paper, but it does suggest that in some areas, community level linkages and localized civic engagement can help to enhance capacity at subnational level.

I don't think that ODA is dirty word it is just that some donors such as the current US government (and even Australia to some extent) doesn't see it its important role as soft diplomacy which China certainly does. The other problem is the DAC monopoly of the definition of ODA and other foreign debates, which Southern donors roundly reject.

Nice piece Nilima, and nice comment Patrick. I'd tend to agree that there should progressively be no more distinction between old and new actors in terms of donor obligations, the first of which being to report on financial volumes on a standardized way. This is what the DAC has been primarily about from the beginning. Just one point : I'm not very comfortable with the beginning of the article, stating that "many observers worry about the relevance and impact of Official Development Assistance (ODA). This form of aid is increasingly a dirty word, synonymous with lack of innovation, dependency and corruption." Personnally, I put myself in that category of "observers", but I do not share this judgment. Do you ? And what about you Patrick ?