This paper consists of a review of existing literature relating to Incorporated Land Groups in Papua New Guinea (PNG), followed by a case study of two urban incorporated land groups (ILGs) in the city of Lae. The paper is an attempt at assessing the sustainability of ILGs in the country. The challenges facing the ILGs have heightened public fears that the land groups may not be sustainable.
Our Government is firmly committed to the principles of human rights and equal opportunity as enshrined in the National Constitution of Papua New Guinea. By introducing the National Public Service Gender Equity and Social Inclusion (GESI) Policy, the Government acknowledges its leadership role and responsibility for policy development and, as a major employer, is able to positively influence change in our workplaces and our communities.
The Papua New Guinea High Conservation Value Forest (HCVF) toolkit was developed through consultative processes and peer reviewing by experts and stakeholders. The HCVF concept was initially developed by the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) for use in forest management certification. Within FSC certification, for compliance with Principle 9, forest managers are required to identify any High Conservation Values (HCVs) that occur within their individual forest management units and manage them in order to maintain or enhance the values identified.
Oil Search Limited (Oil Search/OSL), through its wholly-owned subsidiary Markham ValleyBiomass Limited (MVB)1, proposes to develop the PNG Biomass Markham Valley project(hereafter referred to as ‘the Pro ject’) in Morobe Province, Papua New Guinea (PNG). The Project area (also referred to as Area A) is located in the Markham Valley, about 50 km west-northwest of the provincial capital Lae (Figure ES1).
Hydrobiology undertook a Hydrology and Sediment Transport Baseline and Impact Assessment for the proposed PNG Biomass Markham Valley Project (‘the Project’), which is to be located on the northern floodplain of the Markham River in Morobe Province, between the Leron River to the west and the Erap River to the east. The Project area included parts of the Leron, Erap, Rumu, and Maralumi River sub-catchments of the Markham River.
This report has been prepared by Economics Consulting Services for Markham Valley Biomass Limited. It describes the expected economic impacts of a biomass based power station in the Lae region of Papua New Guinea. The Ramu electricity grid is the most extensive in PNG and is growing but suffers from a lack of reliable capacity. There are significant benefits from any improvement in the capacity and reliability of the grid but the focus in this study is not on these benefits but on the incremental benefits of delivering reliable electricity using biomass as the primary energy
This Environmental Management Plan (EMP) applies to the power plant construction and plantation development activities as summarised in Chapter 2. The EMP serves to guide the MVB workforce in identifying, managing and mitigating potential environmental impacts that may result from these activities. In so doing, this document describes the environmental management framework that is required to identify and assess risks, implement appropriate mitigation measures, and monitor and evaluate their success to facilitate continual improvement.
This Social Impact Assessment Summary Report (SIA Summary) forms part of the PNG Biomass environmental and social impact assessment containing the consolidated results of a social impact study and assessment of potential impacts (SIA Study) undertaken by an independent contractor (SIMP Pty Ltd). The SIA Study includes further detail on the background, assessment of potential impacts, and recommendations for mitigating any unavoidable impacts.
This country profile provides an overview of the context for Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation and enhancing forest carbon stocks (REDD+) in Papua New Guinea (PNG). It examines the drivers of deforestation and degradation in PNG, describes the institutional and political‑economic context within which REDD+ is being developed, and describes the evolution of a national REDD+ strategy and associated policies and legislation
IN APRIL 1922, F. E. WILLIAMS (1893–1943) BEGAN HIS FIRST ASSIGNMENT AS THE AUSTRALIAN Territory of Papua’s assistant government anthropologist in the Purari Delta on the southern coast of what is now Papua New Guinea.1 During his eight-month trip, Williams obtained information on daily life, social relations, material culture, as well as religious beliefs and practices.2 As part of this research, he collected ethnographic specimens, made sketches and took some 96 photographs.
Rot bilong mipela. “Our road” in Neomelanesian Pidgin, or Tok Pisin. When starting my fieldwork in Papua New Guinea (PNG) on the politics of logging, I was aware of the political significance of roads that connect places – another interesting theme – with each other. Having read accounts of the political aspects of roads both in PNG and elsewhere (see Fajans 1998, Ferguson 1996, West 2006), I was still surprised how central a question roads really were.
Adding to the existing literature on the history of forestry policy and reform in Papua New Guinea (PNG), this paper focuses on the Malaysian Rimbunan Hijau Group (RH) – the largest actor in PNG’s forest industry. Rimbunan Hijau’s dominant presence since the 1980s has been accompanied by allegations of illegality, corruption and human rights
abuses. This paper outlines RH’s initial involvement in PNG’s forestry sector and discusses some of the more
controversial aspects of its engagement with concession acquisition processes and public policy, as well as its responses.
China’s Belt and Road Initiative now includes over USD 1 trillion of planned investments spanning the globe.1 Papua New Guinea (PNG) is one of the newest members of this infrastructure and trade program, and its inclusion formalizes an increasingly substantial economic relationship between the two countries.2 China owns nearly one-quarter of PNG’s debt, and has recently announced plans to launch agriculture and roadbuilding projects worth billions that have the potential to transform PNG’s rural countryside.
This Timber Legality Risk Assessment for Papua New Guinea provides an analysis of the risk of sourcing timber from areas of illegal harvesting and transport. NEPCon has been working on risk assessments for timber legality, in partnership with a number of organisations, since 2007.
In many ways The Nature Conservancy (TNC) is already successfully implementing a great many of the imperatives of the Ecosystem Approach to Fisheries in their work in Papua New Guinea and Solomon Islands. The following TNC platforms are much in line with the EAF: 1) The Marine Managed Areas / Marine Protected Areas (MMA/MPA)
In 2003 The Nature Conservancy (TNC) commenced a project titled “Protecting Coral Reefs from Destructive Fishing Practices: Protecting and Managing Reef Fish Spawning Aggregations in the Pacific”. The goal of this project is to significantly reduce the degradation of coral reef ecosystems in the Pacific region from destructive fishing practices,
Despite the importance of the sea cucumber trade in terms of foreign revenue generation for PNG and cash income for local fishers, stock collapse nationally led to a nationwide closure coming into force from 2009. There is now increasing interest in examining the role of locally based management strategies in sustaining sea cucumber populations.
In this article we describe the rapid uptake of technology that increases fishing efficiency in two parts of western Melanesia: Ghizo Island in Western Province, Solomon Islands, and Milne Bay Province in Papua New Guinea. We present evidence that demonstrates a disturbing lack of awareness among fishers of the finite nature of the stocks they are exploiting, and we argue that without corresponding systematic management interventions, the technological transformations we are now witnessing will accelerate the presentpattern of sequential overfishing of commerci ally valuable species.