Papua New Guinea | Human Rights & Social Development

Capital

Port Moresby

Population

9,501,006 (midyear estimates-SPC, 2024)

Currency

Papua New Guinean Kina

Languages

Tok Pisin, English, Hiri Motu, Papua New Guinean Sign Language

Related projects

Pacific Women Lead at SPC

Pacific Women Lead (PWL) at the Pacific Community (SPC) programme, termed PWL at SPC, provides grants for gender equality initiatives through its PWL at SPC Grants for Pacific governments and civil society, and a...

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Regional Working Group on the Implementation of Family Protection / Domestic Violence Legislation

It does this through the creation of a regional platform which brings together high-level (senior) government officials from ministries responsible for coordinating and/or implementing their country/state’s famil...

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Promoting Just, Engaged, Civic-minded and Transparent Governance programme (PROJECT Governance)

SPC is the leading implementing agency for PROJECT Governance and is collaborating with sub-grantee partners: East-West Center (EWC), CARE International and the International Foundation of Electoral Systems (IFES...

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ACP-EU Programme (Pacific) Enhancing capacity for the sustainability of Cultural and Creative Industries in the Pacific Project (CCIP)

The ACP-EU Enhancing capacity for the sustainability of Cultural and Creative Industries in the Pacific Project (CCIP) provides financial support, technical advice, and mentoring and capacity building schemes to...

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Pacific Partnership to End Violence Against Women and Girl (PPEVAWG) Phase 1 - Social Citizenship Education

The Pacific region has some of the highest rates of violence against women recorded in the world – twice the global average with an estimated two in every three Pacific women impacted by gender-based violence. Al...

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Stories

News

African, Caribbean and Paci...

The Pacific Community (SPC) is pleased to announce the second round of recipien...

Dec 20, 2022

Publications

2012

Papua New Guinea

Stocktake of the gender mainstreaming capacity of Pacific Island governments: Papua New Guinea

Braun, Treva. 2012. Stocktake of the gender mainstreaming capacity of Pacific Island governments: Papua New Guinea. Noumea: Secretariat of the Pacific Community. 34 p. https://www.spc.int/digitallibrary/get/z2fzb