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The MP for Obura Wonenara (The Honorable Mehrra Kipefa) [at centre, in high-vis top] with the District Development Authority Board and District Administration Team, in their newly issued uniforms, December 2015 (image: Bennie Atigini, CARE PNG)

15 April 2016

A snapshot of a district struggling against the odds

by Rebecca Pepame Robinson

Opening of 57th Commission on the Status of Women, 2013 (Flickr/UN Women)

14 March 2016

Will gender equality promises be kept? Accountability and the 2030 Agenda

by Somali Cerise

Female police recruit training, PNG (Flickr/DFAT/Michael Wightman)

4 March 2016

State of the service: women’s participation in the PNG public sector

by Nicole Haley

20 November 2015

Fortnightly links: the stove that didn’t cook in the night, donors and poor governance, and more

by Terence Wood and Camilla Burkot

13 November 2015

Proposals for PEFA reform

by David Fellows and John Leonardo

2014 NHDR for PNG

16 October 2015

Towards a Melanesian way of beating the resource curse

by Glenn Banks

PNG Parliament (image: Wikimedia/Steve Shattuck)

12 October 2015

The Supreme Court’s ‘vote of no confidence’ decision: game on in Waigani

by Bal Kama

Nauru Constitutional billboard (image: Flickr/DFAT/Lorrie Graham)

9 October 2015

What next for Nauru?

by Tess Newton Cain

Jim Adams presenting at the 2015 PNG Update

24 July 2015

Private sector reservations and policies

by Jim Adams

23 July 2015

Policy choices matter, even for the resource-rich

by Jim Adams

Jim Adams presenting at the 2015 PNG Update

17 July 2015

Capacity building: how to do better

by Jim Adams

Jim Adams presenting at the 2015 PNG Update

16 July 2015

Capacity building: important but unsuccessful

by Jim Adams

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