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.

Key results in Papua New Guinea between 2014 and 2017

Select strategic plan results achieved between 2014 and 2017, with the support of UNFPA

Health worker policies

Health-care worker protocols and standards developed on sexual and reproductive health for young people

Data capacity

National statistical authorities had the capacity to analyse and use disaggregated data on adolescents and youth, with support from UNFPA

Logistics systems

Functional logistics system developed for reproductive health commodities

Midwifery policies

Midwifery workforce policies developed based on international standards

Sex worker sexual and reproductive health

Sex worker-led organizations engaged in implementing sexual and reproductive health programmes for sex workers

Participatory platforms

Participatory platforms established to advocate for increased investments in marginalized young people

Gender-based violence in sexual and reproductive health plans

Gender-based violence prevention, protection and response integrated into national sexual and reproductive health programmes

Accountability for reproductive rights

Civil society organizations implemented accountability mechanisms to address reproductive rights, with the support of UNFPA

Population Analysis

Population Situation Analysis implemented

Emergencies Key results

Programme Activities

All Resources
  • All resources
  • Core
  • Non - core
  • Integrated sexual and reproductive health services
  • Adolescents and youth
  • Gender equality
  • Evidence-based policymaking
  • Organizational effectiveness
  • Integrated sexual and reproductive health services
  • Adolescents and youth
  • Gender equality
  • Evidence-based policymaking
  • Organizational effectiveness
  • Integrated sexual and reproductive health services
  • Adolescents and youth
  • Gender equality
  • Evidence-based policymaking
  • Organizational effectiveness
  • Integrated sexual and reproductive health services
  • Adolescents and youth
  • Gender equality
  • Organizational effectiveness
  • Analysis on population dynamics

Papua New Guinea 2017 Programme Activities data

Integrated sexual and reproductive health services
Increased availability and use of integrated sexual and reproductive health services (including family planning, maternal health and HIV) that are gender-responsive and meet human rights standards for quality of care and equity in access
Total Spending:
$509699
Implemented by:
UNFPA $374828 (74%)
NGO $53361 (10%)
Gov $81509 (16%)
Funded by:
Core Resources (45%)
Non-core Resources (55%)
Sexual and reproductive health
Increased national capacity to deliver integrated sexual and reproductive health services
Total Spending:
$15418
Implemented by:
UNFPA $6008 (39%)
NGO $-269 (-2%)
Gov $9678 (63%)
Funded by:
Core Resources (61%)
Non-core Resources (39%)
Family planning
Increased national capacity to strengthen enabling environments, increase demand for and supply of modern contraceptives and improve quality family planning services that are free of coercion, discrimination and violence
Total Spending:
$327031
Implemented by:
UNFPA $273401 (84%)
NGO $53630 (16%)
Funded by:
Core Resources (16%)
Non-core Resources (84%)
Maternal health
Increased national capacity to deliver comprehensive maternal health services
Total Spending:
$160655
Implemented by:
UNFPA $88824 (55%)
Gov $71831 (45%)
Funded by:
Core Resources (100%)
Sexual and reproductive health in emergencies
Increased national capacity to provide sexual and reproductive health services in humanitarian settings
Total Spending:
$6595
Implemented by:
UNFPA $6595 (100%)
Funded by:
Core Resources (100%)
Adolescents and youth
Increased priority on adolescents, especially on very young adolescent girls, in national development policies and programmes, particularly increased availability of comprehensive sexuality education and sexual and reproductive health
Total Spending:
$227616
Implemented by:
UNFPA $207566 (91%)
NGO $5663 (2%)
Gov $14387 (6%)
Funded by:
Core Resources (38%)
Non-core Resources (62%)
Adolescents and youth
Increased national capacity to conduct evidence-based advocacy for incorporating adolescents and youth and their human rights/needs in national laws, policies, programmes, including in humanitarian settings
Total Spending:
$227616
Implemented by:
UNFPA $207566 (91%)
NGO $5663 (2%)
Gov $14387 (6%)
Funded by:
Core Resources (38%)
Non-core Resources (62%)
Gender equality
Advanced gender equality, women’s and girls’ empowerment, and reproductive rights, including for the most vulnerable and marginalized women, adolescents and youth
Total Spending:
$40323
Implemented by:
UNFPA $7070 (18%)
NGO $33253 (82%)
Funded by:
Core Resources (100%)
Non-core Resources (0%)
Ending harmful practices
Increased capacity to prevent gender-based violence and harmful practices and enable the delivery of multisectoral services, including in humanitarian settings
Total Spending:
$39962
Implemented by:
UNFPA $6710 (17%)
NGO $33253 (83%)
Funded by:
Core Resources (100%)
Protection rights
Strengthened international and national protection systems for advancing reproductive rights, promoting gender equality and non-discrimination and addressing gender-based violence
Total Spending:
$126
Implemented by:
UNFPA $126 (100%)
Funded by:
Non-core Resources (100%)
Civil society and rights for all
Strengthened engagement of civil society organizations to promote reproductive rights and women's empowerment, and address discrimination, including of marginalized and vulnerable groups, people living with HIV and key populations
Total Spending:
$234
Implemented by:
UNFPA $234 (100%)
Funded by:
Core Resources (100%)
Organizational effectiveness
Organizational effectiveness and efficiency
Total Spending:
$-1039
Implemented by:
UNFPA $-1039 (100%)
Funded by:
Core Resources (100%)
Programme effectiveness
Enhanced programme effectiveness by improving quality assurance, monitoring, and evaluation
Total Spending:
$-1039
Implemented by:
UNFPA $-1039 (100%)
Funded by:
Core Resources (100%)
Analysis on population dynamics
development, sexual and reproductive health and reproductive rights, HIV and gender equality
Total Spending:
$2611765
Implemented by:
UNFPA $741991 (28%)
Gov $1869774 (72%)
Funded by:
Core Resources (47%)
Non-core Resources (53%)
Population dynamics
Increased availability of evidence through cutting-edge in-depth analysis on population dynamics, sexual and reproductive health, HIV and their linkages to povert
Total Spending:
$344671
Implemented by:
UNFPA $346412 (101%)
Gov $-1740 (-1%)
Funded by:
Core Resources (101%)
Non-core Resources (-1%)
National population data system
Strengthened national capacity for production and dissemination of quality disaggregated data on population and development issues that allows for mapping of demographic
Total Spending:
$2267093
Implemented by:
UNFPA $395579 (17%)
Gov $1871514 (83%)
Funded by:
Core Resources (39%)
Non-core Resources (61%)

Programme Documentation

UNFPA Papua New Guinea Country Programme Document

Cycle:
2012
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2015

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Cycle:
2012
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2015

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Cycle:
2008
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2012

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Cycle:
2018
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2022

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UNFPA Papua New Guinea United Nations Development Assistance Framework

Cycle:
2012
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2015

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Cycle:
2012
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2015

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UNFPA Papua New Guinea Country Programme Action Plan

Cycle:
2013
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2017

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Audit of the UNFPA Country Office in Papua New Guinea

Issue date: 28 February 2018

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Technical notes and sources
  • The results featured here are only a selection of key results in line with strategic plan 2014-17 indicators. The selection does not reflect the full picture of all results achieved during the strategic plan cycle by UNFPA programme countries.
  • The source of data for most country level indicators is the UNFPA country annual reports for 2014-2017, unless stated otherwise
  • Results featured are cumulative - i.e., achieved between the 2014 and 2017 timeframe, and reflect the net situation, true as of the year selected
  • Majority of the results are captured from 127 UNFPA programme countries
  • Indicators that are marked ‘not achieved’ could imply any of the following conditions:
    • The country may have achieved the result without the support of UNFPA
    • The country has not targeted the given indicator during the 2014-2017 period
    • UNFPA is supporting this area of work, but the result has not yet been achieved

Notes for key results

  • Maternal deaths averted: Results reflected for 46 UNFPA Supplies programme countries
  • Unintended pregnancies averted: Results reflected for 46 UNFPA Supplies programme countries
  • Unsafe abortions averted: Results reflected for 46 UNFPA Supplies programme countries
  • Number of countries that developed midwifery workforce policies based on international standards: Baseline data not available
  • Number of fistula repair surgeries supported: Baseline data not available
  • Number of countries that implemented at least 8 out of the UNFPA 10-step strategic-approach to comprehensive condom programming: Results achieved in 2014-2016 only
  • Number of countries that have capacity to implement the Minimum Initial Service Package at the onset of a crisis: UNFPA reflected non-cumulative figures for this indicator; the Minimum Initial Service Package (MISP) is a series of crucial actions required to respond to reproductive health needs at the onset of every humanitarian crisis. View here for more information on MISP
  • Percentage of countries affected by humanitarian crises that have functioning inter-agency gender-based violence coordination body as a result of UNFPA guidance and leadership: Baseline data not available
  • Number of countries that established comprehensive plan to report on UNFPA-supported Sustainable Development Goal indicators: Results achieved in 2017 only; baseline data not available
  • Number of countries that established online national population data platforms that are publicly accessible by users: : Results achieved in 2017 only; baseline data not available
  • Number of countries in which the capacity of national statistical authorities was developed to analyse and use disaggregated data on adolescent and youth: Baseline data not available; UNFPA reflected non-cumulative figures for this indicator
  • Number of countries that generated and used sub-national estimates of population, health and social data: Baseline data not available

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