UNFPA Papua New Guinea

A lower middle-income country, Papua New Guinea is home to one of the world’s most ethnically diverse populations. Most people live in rural areas, often in areas of difficult access. This represents a complex challenge for health care and social services delivery. Fertility rates are high. UNFPA started work in Papua New Guinea in 1996. It helps improve the quality of and access to maternal, newborn, child and adolescent health services, including for sexual and reproductive health. Programmes support in achieving the national development plans, extending measures to prevent and respond to gender-based violence, and collecting and analysing population data for development planning.

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Key results of Papua New Guinea in 2021 View more

Reproductive rights, laws and policies

Strategies were in place to align laws, policies and regulations on reproductive rights

Gender-based violence platform

A national mechanism to engage multiple stakeholders to prevent and address gender-based violence was in place

Minimum Initial Services Package

Health service providers and managers were trained on the minimum initial service package

Life skills programmes for girls

3,300

Marginalized girls were reached with health, social and economic asset-building programmes

Advocacy platforms against harmful social norms

Communities developed advocacy platforms to eliminate discriminatory gender and sociocultural norms which affect women and girls

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Key humanitarian results 2021

UNFPA-assisted safe deliveries

3,928

Affected population reached with Family Planning services

1,594

Number of women of reproductive age (aged 15-49) reached with SRH services

237

Number of people reached with SRH/GBV information and awareness activities

Number of mobile clinics

Functional health facilities supported by UNFPA that provide Emergency Obstetric Care (EmOC)

Number of safe spaces

128

Personnel trained on clinical management of rape

125

Personnel trained on Minimum Initial Package (MISP)

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Programme Activities

Papua New Guinea 2021 Programme Activities data

Utilization of sexual and reproductive health services

Every woman, adolescent and youth everywhere, especially those furthest behind, has utilized integrated sexual and reproductive health services and exercised reproductive rights, free of coercion, discrimination and violence

Total Spending:

$1,662,496

Implemented by:

NGO $166,153 (10%)
UNFPA $1,453,483 (87%)
GOV $42,860 (3%)

Funded by:

Core Resources (54%)
Non-core Resources (46%)

Integrated sexual and reproductive health services

Strengthened capacities to provide high-quality, integrated information and services for family planning, comprehensive maternal health, sexually transmitted infections and HIV, as well as information and services that are responsive to emergencies and fragile contexts

Total Spending:

$879,498

Implemented by:

UNFPA $700,654 (80%)
NGO $153,843 (17%)
GOV $25,000 (3%)

Funded by:

Core Resources (49)
Non-core Resources (51)

Sexual and reproductive health polices for those furthest behind

Enhanced capacities to develop and implement policies, including financial protection mechanisms, that prioritize access to information and services for sexual and reproductive health and reproductive rights for those furthest behind, including in humanitarian settings

Total Spending:

$188,392

Implemented by:

UNFPA $183,392 (97%)
GOV $5,000 (3%)

Funded by:

Core Resources (77)
Non-core Resources (23)

Health workforce capacity

Strengthened capacities of the health workforce, especially those of midwives, in health management and clinical skills for high-quality and integrated sexual and reproductive health services, including in humanitarian settings

Total Spending:

$310,798

Implemented by:

UNFPA $288,657 (93%)
NGO $12,309 (4%)
GOV $9,832 (3%)

Funded by:

Core Resources (79)
Non-core Resources (21)

Accountability for sexual and reproductive health

Improved domestic accountability mechanisms for sexual and reproductive health and reproductive rights through the involvement of communities and health-system stakeholders at all levels

Total Spending:

$91,872

Implemented by:

UNFPA $88,843 (97%)
GOV $3,029 (3%)

Funded by:

Core Resources (89)
Non-core Resources (11)

Delivery of sexual and reproductive health commodities

Strengthened capacities to effectively forecast, procure, distribute and track the delivery of sexual and reproductive health commodities, ensuring resilient supply chains

Total Spending:

$191,937

Implemented by:

UNFPA $191,937 (100%)

Funded by:

Non-core Resources (100)

Empowerment of young people

Every adolescent and youth, in particular adolescent girls, is empowered to have access to sexual and reproductive health and reproductive rights, in all contexts

Total Spending:

$315,327

Implemented by:

GOV $32,941 (10%)
UNFPA $148,405 (47%)
NGO $133,981 (42%)

Funded by:

Core Resources (10%)
Non-core Resources (90%)

Youth leadership and participation

Young people have opportunities to exercise leadership and participate in sustainable development, humanitarian action and in sustaining peace

Total Spending:

$245,249

Implemented by:

UNFPA $80,416 (33%)
NGO $133,981 (55%)
GOV $30,852 (13%)

Funded by:

Core Resources (12)
Non-core Resources (88)

Adolescents and youth skills and capabilities

Young people, in particular adolescent girls, have the skills and capabilities to make informed choices about their sexual and reproductive health and rights, and well-being

Total Spending:

$67,988

Implemented by:

UNFPA $67,988 (100%)

Funded by:

Core Resources (2)
Non-core Resources (98)

Adolescents and youth policies

Policies and programmes in relevant sectors tackle the determinants of adolescent and youth sexual and reproductive health, development and well-being

Total Spending:

$2,089

Implemented by:

GOV $2,089 (100%)

Funded by:

Non-core Resources (100)

Gender equality and empowerment of women and girls

Gender equality, the empowerment of all women and girls, and reproductive rights are advanced in development and humanitarian settings

Total Spending:

$2,170,561

Implemented by:

NGO $595,616 (27%)
UNFPA $1,410,166 (65%)
GOV $164,780 (8%)

Funded by:

Core Resources (20%)
Non-core Resources (80%)

Prevention and addressing of gender-based violence

Increased multisectoral capacity to prevent and address gender-based violence using a continuum approach in all contexts, with a focus on advocacy, data, health and health systems, psychosocial support and coordination

Total Spending:

$2,123,760

Implemented by:

UNFPA $1,363,364 (64%)
NGO $595,616 (28%)
GOV $164,780 (8%)

Funded by:

Core Resources (20)
Non-core Resources (80)

Elimination of harmful practices

Strengthened response to eliminate harmful practices, including child, early and forced marriage, female genital mutilation and son preference

Total Spending:

$24,901

Implemented by:

UNFPA $24,901 (100%)

Funded by:

Core Resources (100)

Gender and sociocultural norms

Strengthened civil society and community mobilization to eliminate discriminatory gender and sociocultural norms affecting women and girls

Total Spending:

$21,900

Implemented by:

UNFPA $21,900 (100%)

Funded by:

Non-core Resources (100)

Population and development

Everyone, everywhere, is counted, and accounted for, in the pursuit of sustainable development equality

Total Spending:

$811,221

Implemented by:

UNFPA $811,221 (100%)

Funded by:

Core Resources (26%)
Non-core Resources (74%)

Population data systems

Improved national population data systems to map and address inequalities; to advance the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals and the commitments of the Programme of Action of the International Conference on Population and Development; and to strengthen interventions in humanitarian crises

Total Spending:

$703,040

Implemented by:

UNFPA $703,040 (100%)

Funded by:

Core Resources (15)
Non-core Resources (85)

Demographic intelligence

Mainstreamed demographic intelligence to improve the responsiveness, targeting and impact of development policies, programmes and advocacy

Total Spending:

$108,181

Implemented by:

UNFPA $108,181 (100%)

Funded by:

Core Resources (100)

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UNFPA Papua New Guinea

Reproductive rights, laws and policies

Gender-based violence platform

Minimum Initial Services Package

Life skills programmes for girls

Advocacy platforms against harmful social norms

Key humanitarian results 2021

Programme Activities

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Programme Documentation

Notes for key results