OTDF Staff Cleanup

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OTDF staff are continuing to clean up around the head office, carpark and along a 1km stretch of road on the Tabubil-Kiunga highway from 3pm every fortnight Friday. Staff begin their two-hour clean up all the way up to a culvert along the highway, where town residents continue to dump rubbish. It has taken OTDF three consecutive sessions to clear more than 50 large garbage bags worth of rubbish. OTDF is taking steps to liaise with Kiunga town authorities to have signs put up to stop town residents from dumping rubbish in these public areas. Pictured is the rubbish heap at the culvert before, and after. OTDF hopes that residents can take responsibility for their own areas and collectively keep Kiunga townclean and healthy.

This is a monthly publication of the Ok Tedi Development Foundation and its community partners of Western Province Issue 11 - August 2016

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PROFILEAN Associate Director since 2014, Mrs Clara Fred Dangkim represents the Women and Children of all 8 CMCA Trust regions and the 6 Mine villages. She was a women’s representative at the CMCA Review negotiations in 2006 and 2007. Clara represented the Wai Tri Trust women as a Wai Tri Development Trustee from 2002 to 2004 and

was elected as the President of the Lower Ok Tedi Nima Ara Women’s Association from 2005 to 2012. She holds a certificate in Advanced Secretarial Studies and a Diploma in Human Resource Management from the Divine Word University.She comes from Bultem village, one of the Mine villages in the North Fly District.

MONITORING and Evaluation (M&E) is a very important quality control process to ensure program outcomes are being met. This is according to Ok Tedi Development Foundation (OTDF) CEO Ian Middleton, while addressing OTDF staff during a meeting on August 2. Mr Middleton was very vocal on this process, both internally and in relation to programs and projects when addressing the staff. “There have been allot of good things done in our partner communities but we are not appropriately capturing nor evaluating the outcomes,” he stated.

“It is critically important that we are able to demonstrate what we’re doing and what we’re achieving and how we’re achieving it as an organisation,” he added. Mr Middleton provided a poignant example of the importance of conducting M&E, making reference to the program work carried out by Abt JTA on health. “The published figures by the National Department of Health 2013 SPAR report showed that before OTDF started the health program, Western province was ranked last in the country for its standard of health care. At the end of 2015, Western

province was placed fourth. That is an outstanding outcome and therein the importance of M&E,” he said.Staff were encouraged to be innovative and come up with simplified processes and diagrammatic ways which represent their respective Departments. There will now be practical M&E demonstrations conducted by different Departments every fortnight for all employees to become more familiar with M & E. These will be interactive sessions from which important lessons are expected to be shared and learned.

Monitoring and Evaluation a vital tool

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Scholarship screening set FIFTEEN houses were opened at Senamrae Village in the North Fly District. Senamrae Village Planning Committee Chairman (VPC) and Trustee, Rickson Kwe, said the project cost K975,000. The housing project was funded by the Waitri Trust (K875,000) and Alice River Trust (K150,000). Mr Kwe said “the people were very happy with the completion of the project and want another four houses built, depending on available funding. They are happy with the VPC and also OTDF in supporting the project to make it a reality”. Four local companies were engaged to build the houses.

Students from Divine Word under the OTDF Scholarship

TEN teacher’s houses and five classrooms at the Montfort Primary School (MPS) in Kiunga are being renovated by OTDF, through contractor, Tawap Kamen Investment Limited.The maintenance works, valued at K3.9million, are funded under Ok Tedi Mining Limited’s Tax Credit Scheme (TCS), being facilitated by OTDF through its Infrastructure Development Department.Long-serving teacher, Christine Malakai, from Iogi village in the North Fly, said this was the first time teacher’s houses and classrooms were maintained since the school opened back in the 1980s. This is her eleventh year teaching at MPS.“Being a long serving staff member, on behalf of the teachers, we all appreciate so much the way OTDF came in to maintain the school. We are very grateful. The teachers are very mindful to take care of the

The Board of Directors of Middle Fly Investment Limited (MFIL) and Upper Lower Ok Tedi Limited (ULOTL) attended their Board of Directors meeting in Port Moresby on July 7 to 8, 2016. The Local Directors attended the meeting along with external Directors from OTML and OTDF. ULOTL Directors took the opportunity to inspect properties in the Nation’s Capital as an interest to expand their real estate investment. The meeting helped the Directors realise the opportunity for investing in residential properties in the capital city due to the increasing demand and continued returns.

buildings after maintenance works are complete,” Ms Malakai said.There are currently 24 teachers from all regions of PNG teaching at MPS and more than 800 students.“It (MPS) is one of the biggest feeder schools to St Gabriel’s Technical School. We always try our best to have students out there,” she said. Maintenance work began on in April will be completed by the end of September.

News in Brief

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Renovated teacher’s house

SAFETY at work is a priority at OTML and it’s taking steps to address issues that contribute to unsafe work practice such as drug and alcohol abuse. The Asset Protection Department (APD)conducted awareness in Tabubil and Kiunga for all employees including OTDF employees. During the awareness with OTDF the APD officers explained the use of the drug detection device known as Securitect Drug Wipe. Facts of drug abuse were also communicated during the awareness, stating that tetrahydrocannabinol or THC, the active drug in marijuana, remains in a person’s blood for 72 hours after consumption. The Illicit Drug Testing commenced on July 25.

Montfort Primary gets renovation

SCREENING for the OTDF 2017 Education Scholarships began in early August.OTDF Scholarships Officer Bonnie Yakumani said the total number of students budgeted for the 2017 scholarship is 357 for both the CMCA and Preferred Area Development areas such as Telefomin, Oksapmin and Olsobip.Scholarships are offered to Western Province and Telefomin district students only and applications closed on June 30.“We have received heaps of applications by email, post and hand delivery. Screening will continue through to September and will involve the local trustees to identify whether student applications and results are

genuine. Applications are for new secondary school leavers who will go for studies in tertiary institutions in 2017. The ones that are currently on scholarship are okay to continue and they will still be supported next year,” Mrs Yakumani explained.She said the focus of the scholarship program is to encourage the students to align with the new OTDF Strategic Directions and go into agriculture, teacher training and nursing colleges.“We are encouraging female participation and also looking at Universities, Technical Colleges and recruiting students for the PNG Maritime College and cadet training with V Ships on board the OTML and CMCA owned vessels”.

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