Australia will continue to strategically reposition our aid program to PNG to focus on a few key areas, deliver better results and implement the program in a coherent manner. Responding to the Development Cooperation Treaty Report recommendations, the PNG program is repositioning itself to focus on improved service delivery in education and health, including HIV/AIDS. The program will engage selectively in the law and justice sector and maintain support for transport infrastructure. Initiatives falling outside these sectors, such as support to land and aspects of agriculture, will be phased out or repositioned to contribute more directly to improved outcomes in health and education service delivery. This will bring a new coherence to the program, enabling us to monitor results in a few key sectors. The program will manage the risks and impacts associated with the PNG national elections in 2012. A major challenge will be to continue to engage and deliver programs in the lead-up to the national elections, predicted to be among PNG’s most challenging. The program is analysing the risks associated with the elections and is developing an integrated response to addressing these. The enabling programs that include gender, the sub-national program, economic and public sector, the Strongim Gavman Program and Strongim Pipol Strongim Nesen will continue to improve their linkages to other AusAID sector programs. All enabling programs will be redefined to ensure they are best placed to support service delivery outcomes in the four priority sectors. Gender equality will be at the centre of the program, with a strong focus on the economic and social benefits of participation for all. The program will continue to implement the findings of the Joint Review of Technical Adviser Positions, including reducing the number of advisers by one third by mid 2012. The reductions will occur mainly in the areas of rural development, education, and health and HIV/AIDs, reflecting a move to rebalance funding from advisory support to direct service delivery. The program will adopt a much more effective and innovative approach to performance and management, with the ability to demonstrate the results we have achieved clearly. The PNG senior management team will meet regularly to manage program finances, human resources, performance and quality, and other key corporate responsibilities more proactively. We will undertake a performance audit and improve our approaches to monitoring. The program will continue its work to strengthen capacity to manage for results. In particular, it will manage for the achievement of results set out in the Australian 2011–12 Budget.
Australia will continue to strategically reposition our aid program to PNG to focus on a few key areas, deliver better results and implement the program in a coherent manner. Responding to the Development Cooperation Treaty Report recommendations, the PNG program is repositioning itself to focus on improved service delivery in education and health, including HIV/AIDS. The program will engage selectively in the law and justice sector and maintain support for transport infrastructure. Initiatives falling outside these sectors, such as support to land and aspects of agriculture, will be phased out or repositioned to contribute more directly to improved outcomes in health and education service delivery. This will bring a new coherence to the program, enabling us to monitor results in a few key sectors. The program will manage the risks and impacts associated with the PNG national elections in 2012. A major challenge will be to continue to engage and deliver programs in the lead-up to the national elections, predicted to be among PNG’s most challenging. The program is analysing the risks associated with the elections and is developing an integrated response to addressing these. The enabling programs that include gender, the sub-national program, economic and public sector, the Strongim Gavman Program and Strongim Pipol Strongim Nesen will continue to improve their linkages to other AusAID sector programs. All enabling programs will be redefined to ensure they are best placed to support service delivery outcomes in the four priority sectors. Gender equality will be at the centre of the program, with a strong focus on the economic and social benefits of participation for all. The program will continue to implement the findings of the Joint Review of Technical Adviser Positions, including reducing the number of advisers by one third by mid 2012. The reductions will occur mainly in the areas of rural development, education, and health and HIV/AIDs, reflecting a move to rebalance funding from advisory support to direct service delivery. The program will adopt a much more effective and innovative approach to performance and management, with the ability to demonstrate the results we have achieved clearly. The PNG senior management team will meet regularly to manage program finances, human resources, performance and quality, and other key corporate responsibilities more proactively. We will undertake a performance audit and improve our approaches to monitoring. The program will continue its work to strengthen capacity to manage for results. In particular, it will manage for the achievement of results set out in the Australian 2011–12 Budget.
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