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Transparency International Papua New Guinea Inc.

 

PO Box 591,

Port Moresby,

National Capital District

PAPUA NEW GUINEA

 

Tel: +(675) 320-2188

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Projects and Activities

TI PNG dedicates its core resources to undertaking the following activities in an ongoing fashion:

  1. Providing a TI PNG position on hot issues of the day, such as public appointments, misappropriation of public money, and the passage of laws pertaining to our mandate, through media releases, letters to the editor and position papers to government.

  2. Disseminating information about corruption issues to the wider public, including a quarterly newsletter to all members and supporters.

  3. Supporting the growth of coalitions amongst wider PNG society, such as the Youth Against Corruption Association (YACA) and the Community Coalition Against Corruption (CCAC).

Additionally, TI PNG undertakes project and program activity that aligns with current strategic objectives. Our current program priorities are:

  1. Electoral Reform and Awareness, focusing on the 2007 national elections. This program was completed successfully with funding from AusAID. Reports of the project including financial acquittals was completed and presented to the donor and the project closed following the National Elections in 2007.

  2. Further work in partnership with the PNG Department of Education to ensure that anti-corruption values are at the core of our education system;

  3. Legislative reform such as a Freedom of Information Act, a Whistleblowers Protection Act, and the development of an Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC);

  4. ‘Working with government’ projects such as e-procurement, budget transparency, tracking resource equity, and sector status reports;

  5. Corruption research, diagnostics, and information dissemination.

Notable ongoing projects undertaken by TIPNG since 2007 include;

 

1. Sir Anthony Siaguru Walk Against Corruption (WAC)2007 - 2009

 

The Sir Anthony Siaguru Walk Against Corruption(WAC) is a fund raising event inagurated in 2007 by TIPNG.

It seeks to raise funds to sustain the long term operational costs of TIPNG and provides an avenue for members of civil society to express their concerns about corrupton by taking part in the walk.

 

 

The walks in 2007, 2008 and 2009 were cordinated by a committee comprised of 15 voluntery members committeed to deliver results. The volunteers are from various government and corporate organisations who commit time and resources to organise and cordinate the event ensuring the walk is held successfully.

A number of corporate, government, non government and educational insitutions continue to render their services volunterialy and in kind to support and ensure the walk is incident free.

 

  • The first walk was held in 2007 in Port Moresby and raised over K90 000.00 for the Siaguru Endowment Fund (SEF).
  • The second walk in 2008 was held both in Port Moresby and Kokopo, East New Britain province. This was the first successful walk in another province.These walks raised over K195 000.00.
  • The third walk this year (2009) was again held in Port Moresby and Kokopo and raised K329 000.00.

Prizes sponsored by corporate organisations are awarded annually to the best dressed corporaete team and the best anti corruption message presnted by teams. This year the focus of the walk was to have young people participate in the walk. This saw 93 primary and secondary schools including tertiarty institutions register and participate in Port Moresby and Kokopo.

 

Annual registration fees for the walk stands at;

  • Corporate team K2 000.00
  • School team K200.00

 

The WAC committee has plans to expand the dimension of the walk to other provinces and incorporate activities that can possibly get more members of civil society to participate and show support against acorruption.

 

READ More..... about the WAC and the Speech by Chairman Peter Aitsi.

 

2. Mike Manning Youth Democracy Camp - 2008

 

Background

In an ongoing effort to target PNG's future leaders, TIPNG conducts the annual Mike Manning Youth Democracy Camp (YDC), named after TIPNG's late former Chairman. The camp is held annually in June and July in Goroka, the capital of the Eastern Highlands Province. The YDC involves bringing over 50 secondary students and out of school youth from fourteen provinces together for ten days, where they experience a series of seminars and programs designed to raise their knowledge on a wide range of topics relevant to citizens in a modern democratic society.

The camp involves the students establishing their own mock republic and parliament. A constitution is drafted, laws are passed and a President is elected. This gives the youths first-hand experience of the kind of processes that underpin their democracy and the systems involved in electing their leaders. The camp also involves a series of intensive seminars, covering topics such as human rights, women in politics, HIV/AIDS awareness, good governance principles, the role of the media in a democracy and corruption in politics. Finally the camp involves a number of inspirational speakers to share their insights with the attendees - in 2009 these included Malcolm Kela-Smith, Governor of Eastern Highlands Province, and Mr Ila Geno, former Chief Ombudsman of Papua New Guinea.

The YDC deliberately targets school students who can potentially play a pivotal role in their own schools and communities. The aim is for the ideas instilled during the camp to be spread by the youths in their own homes, communities and schools to encourage wider awareness, advocacy and participation in civil society across PNG.

Funding for the YDC has been secured for the next five years thanks to the PNG Sustainable Development Program, with additional funding provided in 2008 and 2009 by the US State Department, AusAID and the UNDP.

 

Activity

Youth Democracy Camp is held annually in Goroka, Eastern Highlands over June - July.

Over 50 students and out of school youth from fourteen provinces often are in attendance. The Ten days of seminars, workshops and activities on civic education, human rights, democratic principles, voting, governance, corruption are activities carried out by those attending.

 

Impact

Instilling knowledge of good governance and democratic principles in student leaders
students undertake to conduct awareness and knowledge-sharing sessions in own communities

Students have done live radio broadcasts calling for change in youth behavior and educating the public about minimizing the trend of corruption through change of personal attitude.

Empowers youths to talk openly about corruption and its effects on individual lives and society.

We have had representatives form TI Pacific chapters in Solomon Islands, Vanuatu and Fiji attend the camp this year (2009). The idea here was the for chapters to adopt and carry out similar activities


 

4. Good Governance & anti-corruption education (GGACE)

5. Forest Governance Initiative (FGI) - 2009

 

 

            

  

 

 

 


 
 
 
   
 

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