helping improve health outcomes over the longer system strengthening, including public financial term. DFAT therefore needs to continue to work management and availability of essential drugs (ii) an with GoPNG, and the other development partners, unfinished agenda of traditional health challenges, to ensure the allocation of any resources DFAT including under-nutrition and immunisation and (iii) new directly provides to MDPs are addressing right health challenges including Non-communicable diseases. ‘’the things’’. This includes health system strengthening as well as addressing the critical drivers of the preventable burden of disease in PNG. 8. Gender At a strategic level GoPNG and each of the That DFAT, GoPNG and MDPs meet to agree on a more 49 multilateral agencies are committed to gender explicit, insightful and regular means of reporting on equality and empowering women and girls. This is a gender disaggregated data, extracted from existing M&E challenging area in PNG and will take time to systems wherever possible, as a basis for better planning improve. However, there was nevertheless limited and management. operational level evidence that MDP efforts having made a real difference to gender equality. The Asian Development Bank’s RPHSDP is the investment with the most sophisticated approach to gender in its design, delivery and M&E. UNFPA provides estimates of the impact its family planning and other interventions on number of maternal deaths averted and other gender related data: see Table 2. The majority of project level reporting reviewed from other agencies did not contain sufficient and in some cases any - gender – disaggregated data. There was also an absence of thorough gender lens analysis in the reporting. DFAT is entitled to expect clear and more informative M & E reporting from MDPs, including evidence that the M & E is being used for overall performance management from MDPs, on such an
helping improve health outcomes over the longer term. DFAT therefore needs to continue to work with GoPNG, and the other development partners, to ensure the allocation of any resources DFAT directly provides to MDPs are addressing ‘’the right things’’. This includes health system strengthening as well as addressing the critical drivers of the preventable burden of disease in PNG. system strengthening, including public financial management and availability of essential drugs (ii) an unfinished agenda of traditional health challenges, including under-nutrition and immunisation and (iii) new health challenges including Non-communicable diseases. 8. Gender At a strategic level GoPNG and each of the multilateral agencies are committed to gender equality and empowering women and girls. This is a challenging area in PNG and will take time to improve. However, there was nevertheless limited operational level evidence that MDP efforts having made a real difference to gender equality. The Asian Development Bank’s RPHSDP is the investment with the most sophisticated approach to gender in its design, delivery and M&E. UNFPA provides estimates of the impact its family planning and other interventions on number of maternal deaths averted and other gender related data: see Table 2. The majority of project level reporting reviewed from other agencies did not contain sufficient – and in some cases any - gender disaggregated data. There was also an absence of thorough gender lens analysis in the reporting. DFAT is entitled to expect clear and more informative M & E reporting from MDPs, including evidence that the M & E is being used for overall performance management from MDPs, on such an That DFAT, GoPNG and MDPs meet to agree on a more explicit, insightful and regular means of reporting on gender disaggregated data, extracted from existing M&E systems wherever possible, as a basis for better planning and management. 49
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