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The POWER of PARTNERSHIPS
Reflections on addressing Papua New Guinea’s Social Challenges
Carol KIDU DBE MPMinister for Community Development
Respect and Gratitude
DABA NAMONA BONA VAGUTU MAGE - GOOD MORNING!
DOBI VAGI RAHOBADA
Late mother-in-law and mentor
Pari Village in 1960s
“The Best is Yet to Come” Ivan Pomaleu, IPA
“The business outlook and international demand for what PNG has got will continue. The Medium Term development Strategy is an appropriate strategy, but it’ll take time.”
Business Advantage: Papua New Guinea 2008
But the BEST for WHOM and HOW? Responding to that question is perhaps government’s
biggest challenge – How can the rhetoric of our National Goals about equality and access to equitable and sustainable development for ALL become reality?
If PNG can rise to this challenge, the future does indeed look very good for Papua New Guinea.
‘Re-imagining’ Papua New Guinea
Complexities of social development issues
Where we are now with new social policies Possibilities for Powerful Partnerships
Complexities of social development issues
Papua New GuineaLand of complex challenges
• 6 million people speaking over 800 languages• Majority scattered in isolated communities• Low literacy levels, generally poor transport and
communication infrastructure• Poor access to quality education and health services
with HIV epidemic to add to malaria and TB• Social dysfunction and new patterns of violence• Poor socio-economic indicators • Traditional lifestyles coming face to face with the
bulldozers of socio-economic and cultural globalization etc etc
But a land of great opportunities with abundant natural resources and a rich diversity of indigenous cultures
UNDERLYING PREMISE – a THIN VENEER
- introduced socio-economic, religious and cultural paradigms are a thin veneer over a multitude of traditional cultural psychologies and lifestyles.
- limited understanding of the impact of the interactions between the layers and multiplicity of culture
- need for further sociological research to underpin policy and legislative interventions
Underlying social challenges
Dichotomy of old and new social systems - relationships V institutions
Assumptions about a ‘Melanesian way’ and simplistic view of traditional society and culture
Misinterpretation and abuse of culture and customs is having negative social outcomes
Strengthen the intergenerational and extended family as the foundation of society with emphasis on traditional values of reciprocity, collective effort and communal responsibility
Promote the intangible aspects of custom and culture as well as the tangible aspects with an emphasis on values education
Create a learning society that respects old and new knowledge for the benefit of individual and national development
Re-imagining Papua New GuineaNeed to define the future from the past
Discourage belief systems based on fear and jealousy (sorcery and payback)
Harmonise tribal psychology into a national psychology fostering respect for universal rights as well as acceptance of diversity
Move from semi-subsistence (informal) economy to a commercial (formal) economy in a nation of landowners
Develop protocols which recognise the moral, intellectual and cultural rights of the indigenous tribes as the owners of their knowledge
Need to balance macro- and micro-level development efforts
Not enough focus on the micro-issues which require endless patience and dialogue
Export driven macro-economy but the majority of indigenous resource owners become dependent spectators – lack the knowledge and skills to be meaningful participants in the economic boom
Economic opportunities usually based on western capitalist structures applied to non-western settings. Western time-frames with outcomes driven projects and indigenous processes are rarely compatible
Rethinking Development
Just and lasting developmental change can only be achieved when communities own their future.
Sustainability is a social process
Sustainability is based on cultural understanding and cultural relevance
Development in PNG has a history of mismatched expectations and priorities with disappointing outcomes
WHAT ARE WE GOING TO DO?
CHOICES WE CAN MAKE
1. Throw up our hands in despair
2. Bury our heads in the sand
3. Get involved
Papua New Guinea’s new & revised social development policies
STABILITY created POLICY OPPORTUNITIES
New Integrated Community Development Policy• Revised Sports FOR Development Policy• New Early Childhood Care and Development Policy• Revised National Youth Development Policy• Policy for People Living with Disabilities• Revised Women’s Policy in progress• New Children’s Policy in progress• New Elderly Policy in progress• New Strongim Gutpela Sindaun Policy planned
PLUS………………
MAJOR NEW LAND POLICY REFORM lead by the National Land development Taskforce
And new policies on URBANISATION and on the INFORMAL ECONOMY
Lots of hard work and new policies
BUT does the Government have the capacity to implement them and do the people have the right mind-set to accept them?
Need to change Mind-sets From dependency To Re-
empowerment
HAND-OUTS
increase poverty
& dependency
LIFE-LONG LEARNING (functional literacy, vocational and marketing skills training)
for ALL for
poverty reduction and sustainable development
with no monitoring
From ‘cargo-cult’ development to community development
Engagement and Connectivity
National
Provincial
District
Local Level / Wards
Communities
Government’s capacity to connect and engage at community level is limited
Partnerships are needed to make it happen
DFCD
PDCDPROVINCE
NATIONAL
NGOs
PROVT.T churches
DIST.1 DIST.2 DIST.3 DIST.4 DIST.5 DIST.6 DIST.7
DISTRICTS TRAINING TEAMS
WARD 1
C’TEE
CDV CDV CDV CDV CDV
WARD 2
CDV
WARDS
VILLAGES
5-10HOME
5-10HOME
5-10HOME
HIV/AIDSSAFE MOTHERHOONMALARIAPREVENTIVE HEALTH
GOVERNANCELEARNINGECONOMYENVIRONMENT
INTEGRATED COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT USING THE DISTRICT FOCAL POINT TO
CONNECT PEOPLE WITH GOVERNMENT
Development & Resource Centre to connect with CLDCs to disseminate learning activites and map community development
CLDC
CLDCCLDC
Community Learning and Development Centres (CLDC) to strengthen existing development activities of churches, NGOs and private sector
within a national Integrated Community Development Policy
CLDC
CLDCResource people & volunteers network between District Focal Point and CLDCs
DISTRICT FOCAL POINT
The POWER of PARTNERSHIPS
Donors, private sector, NGOs, other partners
National, provincial and District Government Input
StrengthenCLDCs runby churches and CBOs
DISTRICT FOCAL POINT
THE KEY IS IN THE COMMUNITY
There is a need for a paradigm shift in attitudes at all levels so that our families and communities have access to opportunities to take ownership of development and build their communities from inside out (using an OPEN Strategy)
OPEN STRATEGY
0 0 = OWNERSHIP= OWNERSHIPP P = PARTNERSHIPS= PARTNERSHIPSE E = EMPOWERING & ENABLING = EMPOWERING & ENABLING N N = NETWORKING & SHARING= NETWORKING & SHARING
Possibilities for Powerful Partnerships
Skills training for women (and youth) in informal business
is already a partnership
development
Partnership with Queensland State Library
A private sector partnership with PNG government could strengthen that partnership as we aim to establish 89 District Learning Centres
Opening of Kubin Indigenous Knowledge Centre, Moa Island, Torres Straits
“How will the future judge us if we do not respond, knowing that we had the tools in front of us?”
Kate Carr, Ex-President & CEO
Call to Action
The babies and mothers, the children and the elderly are the most vulnerable.
Will PNG’s economic boom benefit the most vulnerable?
The CHALLENGE OF MAKING IT HAPPEN
THE OPPORTUNITY OF NEW PARTNERSHIPS
DEVELOPMENT IS A PROCESS NOT A PRODUCT