This AusAid strategy aims to help Papua New Guinea reduce poverty and promote sustainable development. The strategy aims to reflect a genuine partnership between Papua New Guinea and Australia, a partnership driven by Papua New Guinea ownership and leadership.

This report provides an assessment of the first-year performance of GRM International Pty Ltd, the organisation contracted by NZAID to manage the pre-award processes of two NZAID scholarships schemes in Papua New Guinea (PNG): the New Zealand Development Scholarships scheme in the Public category (NZDS-Public) and the Short Term Training Awards scheme (STTA).

James Cox has interviewed a cross-section of Papua New Guineans and others closely associated with the country. The respondents reflect on the challenges their country faces and discuss how they could be – and are being – resolved. More abstractly, they were asked to consider what, for Papua New Guineans, constitutes 'a good life' (gutpela...

The rapid spread of HIV/AIDS in Papua New Guinea has created a health emergency, with at least 120,000 Papua New Guineans likely to have HIV/AIDS. In this report, Miranda Darling Tobias discusses the biological, social and political factors that are responsible for the rapid rise of the HIV/AIDS infections in order to identify the practical...

Pacific 2020 highlights major challenges facing the Pacific, Papua New Guinea and East Timor in the next 15 years. It emphasises the importance of economic growth to surmount these problems and provides practical policy options in nine key sectors to maximise growth. The report was produced as part of the Pacific 2020 project in collaboration...