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The Future Leaders Program: The Pacific Leadership and Governance Precinct

The Future Leaders Program (FLP) was a foundational program of the Pacific Leadership and Governance Precinct (The Precinct), a joint initiative of the Papua New Guinea (PNG) and Australian Governments. The FLP was a key part of the Precinct’s goal to develop more ethical and capable public sector leaders to ...

Data Management and Transparency in the Extractive Sector

Papua New Guinea (PNG) has substantial oil, gas, copper and gold deposits as well as a significant number of existing resource projects. Increased transparency in the extractive sector is widely recognised as important for translating mineral wealth into sustainable forms of broad-based development. The Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative is a global ...

Subnational Payments in PNG’s Extractive Sector

As Papua New Guinea (PNG) works to transition its natural resources into inclusive and sustainable forms of development, the taxes, fees and levies collected from extractive projects provide much-needed revenue to the national government. These ‘resource rents’ help the national government to fund basic services to its citizenry—many of whom ...

The Impact of Mobile Banking in PNG

Papua New Guinea (PNG) has some of the highest unbanked rates in the world. With geographically dispersed communities, low population density, low financial literacy, relatively underdeveloped telecommunication and banking infrastructure, and diverse cultural and language groups, it is estimated that two thirds of PNG’s population do not have reasonable access ...

Preventing and Countering Violent Extremism in Africa: The Role of the Mining Sector

The majority of counter terrorism efforts have been security and intelligence led, with an emphasis on military and kinetic strategies to ‘defeat’ terrorism. Over the past decade in particular, global efforts have also focused on strategies for preventing and countering violent extremism (P/CVE), particularly on the role of international institutions, ...