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1. SABL leases flawed

   rait man's blog Women shocked, all agreements defective By ... also asked if they had based their investigation report on what was provided by executives of ILGs and landowner companies.  Mr ... I am not against development, but if one does not know what ...

   rait man - 11/11/2011 - 06:39 - 3 comments

2. Road works - did we make a big mistake?

   rait man's blog By Scott Waide Prior to 1995, Papua New ... got to blood their wares, cut their teeth, worked out what works and what doesn't. Then the Aussie advisers told us we have to do ... do what they tell us, dismantling an essential component of development along the way and they then tell us we are corrupt...... Every ...

   rait man - 04/10/2011 - 08:21 - 7 comments

3. Local communities file court action against PNG govt to stop PMIZ

   rait man's blog Over 400 landholders have filed a court action ... are choosing to invest in Lae, major donors like the Asian Development Bank and Japanese government and other Pacific Island nations, who ... IT WAS SQUASHED BY THE PEOPLE. IT COULD BE GOOD TO LOOK UP WHAT HAPPENED THERE, PEOPLE DIDN'T WANT, NOR WAS IT TRULY CONSTITUTIONAL. ...

   rait man - 15/05/2011 - 08:59 - 3 comments

4. Resource Development: Why the hurry?

   rait man's blog BY ARTHUR WILLIAMS* QUITE A FEW DECADES ago ... citizens of Lavongai Island that the only way forward for development was to embrace timber felling (despite knowing it was a very poorly ... … no economic activity…” He failed to address what had happened to the island from 30 years of timber deals. Renowned ...

   rait man - 04/04/2011 - 10:06 - 0 comments

5. Govt's Development Strategic Plan undermines our Constitution

   ACTNOW's blog Papua New Guinea's Development Strategic Plan for 2010-2030 undermines the principles in our ... to understand and relate to the fundamental question, ‘what kind of society do we want?’ which was asked by the Constitutional ...

   ACTNOW - 13/09/2016 - 04:37 - 0 comments

6. Looting and Riot is a result of the wrong model of development.

   Cathy Tukne's blog Wednesday 10 th January marks a dark day in ... houses looted and set aflame after failure to reconfigure what is said to be a technical glitch in the payroll system that caused the ... has become dominated by a foreign and imposed model of development based on unrestrained capitalism. This is a far cry from what was ...

   Cathy Tukne - 19/01/2024 - 15:27

7. Papua New Guinea's soldiers and cops victims of our failed model of development

   rait man's blog By Martyn Namorong Papua New Guinean film maker ... goes, “if you pay bananas you get monkeys.” Basically what it means is that you will never be able to keep the best and brightest if you cannot pay them well and what you end up with are monkeys.  Former PNG Defence Force Commander, ...

   rait man - 26/02/2012 - 10:52 - 0 comments

8. Storytelling and Food: How Pacific Islands are Revitalizing Pride in their Food Culture

   ACTNOW's blog Source: AgroEcology Fund Rucha Chitnis ... New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Fiji and Vanuatu. Q: What sparked your interest in using media to highlight the food culture in ... a highly refined diet is causing health problems. Q: What made you take your film project to other Melanesian countries? ...

   ACTNOW - 16/08/2017 - 10:18 - 0 comments

9. Rhetoric and reality: Millennium Development Goals

   rait man's blog By Jo Chandler, The Age THE clock is ticking in ... Nations headquarters, where 140 world leaders and countless development activists gathered this week to evaluate progress on promises they ... cent of primary school-aged children are in school. ''What we do if we achieve the MDGs is to prove to ourselves as a global ...

   rait man - 24/09/2010 - 05:21 - 0 comments

10. PNG Ways: hybrid livelihoods and human development

    ACTNOW's blog   Summary of paper given at the 2015 Waigani ... made commitments to ‘Papua New Guinean Ways’ and Human Development, a decade before the UNDP’s Human Development project. Customary ... Constitution cautioned of ‘the darkness of neon lights'. What remains of that vision, today? Almost uniquely, Papua New Guinea did ...

    ACTNOW - 08/04/2016 - 07:10 - 0 comments

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