Integration of climate change into development strategies at all levels - Papua New Guinea

Development Planning in Papua New Guinea

Central to the PNG Vision 2050 is the integration of bottom-up planning approaches, and the integration of climate change into development strategies at all levels.

During the week of 5^th September 2011, a national workshop on provincial-scale development planning took place in Lorengau, Manus province.

The workshop focused on national planning efforts, and on improving PNG’s ratings on the Human Development Index and agreeing on indicators for progress on the Millennium Development Goals. Participants from several provinces joined with the Manus Government to engage in discussions with the National Planning office on how to implement the ‘Papua New Guinea Vision 2050: National Development Planning Reform Process’.

Local Community Planning

Linked to these discussions but in a parallel process next door in a large former gymnasium, nearly 100 participants carried out a ‘participatory 3D modeling’ (P3DM) training and activity. These men, women and youth were from every corner of Manus and its surrounding islands, from local community groups and community representatives, local NGOs and local government. Collectively, they created a large model (1:25,000 scale) of the province, and transposed their local knowledge of features and land-use changes, and interpreted maps and existing data, to provide a detailed, verified, geo-referenced living landscape of the province.

Here’s an overview and some more details for you: Development Planning and Participatory Planning in Manaus

Posted by Anne Wallach Thomas on Thursday, September 15, 201110:08PM

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