World Wildlife Day, on 3 March, is an opportunity to celebrate Papua New Guinea’s exceptional wildlife, and the forests that sustain our people and Planet.
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Port Moresby, 31 March 2021: The United Nations Development Programme is partnering with the Royal Papua New Guinea Constabulary (RPNGC) to launch a new information management system that will better protect women and girls across the country.
The importance of accounting for biodiversity and ecosystem services for future economic and environment sustainability is growing globally with Papua New Guinea now joining these efforts.
National Women’s Day reminds us of the critical role women play in ensuring healthy, prosperous, and successful societies. It also reminds us of the barriers they continue to face in achieving true equality, writes UNDP Resident Representative Dirk Wagener.
March 2021 edition of the UNDP Papua New Guinea newsletter.
The UN Country Team coordinates under four Priority Working Groups to implement the United Nations Development Assistance Framework (UNDAF) – People, Planet, Peace, and Prosperity. This report demonstrates the team's progress towards implementing the UNDAF and the UN's 2030 agenda.
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Port Moresby, 8 March 2021:Celebrating women on the frontline of the COVID-19 response and recovery for 2021 International Women’s Day, is in honour of women’s leadership roles in Papua New Guinea.
2020 Human Development Reports Reminds World of the Cost of Business as Usual
Traditional models of development have come at an unprecedented price for our planetary systems, our way of life and the future of humanity according to the 2020 Human Development Report.
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Celebrating World Wildlife Day in Papua New Guinea
World Wildlife Day, on 3 March, is an opportunity to celebrate Papua New Guinea’s exceptional wildlife, and the forests that sustain our people and Planet.
Papua New Guinea is blessed with incomparable levels of diversity. On World Wildlife Day 2021 we focus on ‘Forests and Livelihoods: Sustaining People and Planet’, to highlight the central role of forests, forest species and ecosystems that sustain people globally, particularly forest communities.
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About Papua New Guinea
60%
population of youth
12 %
wage employment rate
2 712
gross national income (GNI) per capita
155
out of 193 countries in the Human Development Index
