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UNCLAS SECTION 01 OF 03 PORT MORESBY 000028 
 
SIPDIS 
 
STATE FOR S/GWI AND EAP/ANP 
 
E.O. 12958: N/A 
TAGS: KWMN PREL KPAO PHUM AID CDC COM TRSY PP
SUBJECT: S/GWI PROJECT PROPOSALS - PAPUA NEW GUINEA 
 
REF: STATE 132094, STATE 012531 
 
¶1.  Embassy Port Moresby is pleased to submit a proposal 
received from the Papua New Guinea Women in Agriculture 
Development Foundation (PNGWiADF) - to establish an 
Infrastructure Training Facility and also Capacity Building 
Training for women is Papua New Guinea's fourth preference from 
post. 
 
 
 
 
 
SUMMARY OF THE PROPOSED PROGRAM 
 
 
 
¶2.  The PNG Women in Agriculture (PNGiA) Resource Centre has two 
components to this proposal which will address the full context 
of this idea. Firstly the issue of proper Infrastructure 
Training Facilities and, a dormitory for women and girls to be 
trained and accommodated as part of the enrichment training 
program. The PNGWIA Resource Centre Building idea wishes to 
address issues such as promoting issues related to educating 
illiterate women and disadvantaged young girls to learn more in 
working in partnership with literacy programs. In the resource 
centre there will be classes running from elementary to grade 6. 
 
In the curriculum we have: 
 
 
 
a) Literacy 
 
-Reading and writing 
 
 
 
b) Health 
 
-Simple nutrition classes (piggy bank on literacy) 
 
-Baking, sewing, teaching natural remedies and simple ways of 
treating sicknesses. 
 
 
 
c) Agriculture 
 
-Downstream processing and preservation of food in preparation 
of droughts, addressing climate change needs funding to run 
these program on regular basis. 
 
-Resource centre are the vocal point of a one step shop for 
training, Economic opportunities information dissemination of 
all aspects of Post-harvest Marketing, Pest and Diseases and 
other related needs. 
 
-Also supporting and training of women farmers in Food Security. 
 
-Enhance women's groups' participation for training, in adaption 
and mitigation in climate change problem solving. 
 
 
 
d) Leadership and Good Governance 
 
-Train women in Leadership and Good Governance. 
 
-Educating women on the issues of Land Reform and its benefits. 
 
 
 
e) Capacity Building Enrichment 
 
-To enrich this training building a classroom and dormitory 
would be the answer to support the trainings. 
 
-Resource centre will be the vocal point for training women in 
the community on Climate Change problem solving and in 
adaptation and mitigation. 
 
-Capacity Building Enrichment Program will address all issues of 
Gender Based Violence. 
 
 
 
f) Desired Outcome 
 
-We would like to strengthen the Papua New Guinea Government's 
vision 2050 in empowering the people through Improved Education 
and Life's skills through Literacy Programs and also in working 
our Land and Benefiting from spin-off businesses and enhancing 
 
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the level of service delivery and basic infrastructure and 
increasing trade volume. 
 
-There must be economic growth and an efficient and effective 
service delivery mechanism. Improved distribution of public 
goods and better trained human capital, will lead to the 
increased participation of people who are healthy, skilled and 
knowledgeable. This will ensure that rural and remote 
communities contribute positively to the development process. 
 
-PNGWiA will fulfill  some of its goals and achieve its plans in 
the strategic plan 
 
To achieve the above Capacity Building Enrichment Program 
funding of a training centre with a dormitory will support the 
initiatives. 
 
 
 
 
 
PROJECT DESCRIPTION 
 
 
 
¶3.  The funding will be used to enrich the proposal and build a 
Resource Training Facility to house women and girls who come to 
attend classes at the Centre. Secondly, part of the funding will 
be used to run trainings as indicated in the proposal. 
 
 
 
(A) DESIRED OUTCOMES/PERFORMANCE MEASURES 
 
-Women who attend the centre will be literate women who will 
pursue further education, can read write and calculate their 
gross income from selling their farm produce. 
 
-They will be able to learn to keep their homes and families 
clean with clean environment and provide nutritious food from 
their farms to their families and in times of drought or 
disaster they will already have had some training on food 
preservation 
 
-Thirdly, these women will already have the leadership skills to 
train other young girls and women and will address social issues 
affecting their indigenous communities. 
 
-The PNGWIA Resource Centre Building: will be a Pilot Project to 
be adapted to other provinces in PNG if it's successful in these 
18 months of operation with the method used to train other girls 
and mothers. 
 
 
 
(B)  PROJECT TIMELINE 
 
March to May 2010 
 
Stock-take and mapping of resources available to use. People and 
lessons learned and issues to address. Participatory Rural 
Appraisal Program (PRAP) exercises to be conducted. Develop data 
base and link with Training and Packages on problems identified. 
Collection of Quotes. Provide feedback to U.S. Embassy. 
 
 
 
June - August 2010 
 
Building of Resource Centre and provide report to US Embassy 
 
 
 
September - November 2010 
 
Training in progress, and provide report to US Embassy. 
 
 
 
December 2010 - August 2011 
 
Maintain stock-take of trainings done. Regular updates and 
management, techniques and trainings. Program planning for 
future training. Review training agreements and how best we can 
deliver based on needs of rural women. Provide final report to 
US Embassy. 
 
 
 
 
 
BUDGET 
 
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¶4.  Component (1) Capacity Building Enrichment Component- Budget 
 
Design and Landscaping: $3000.00 
 
Building Classroom and dormitory: $37,000.00 
 
Furniture: $5500.00 
 
Utilities: $7500.00 
 
Sub-total: $53,000.00 
 
 
 
Component (2) Activities - Budget 
 
Literacy classes: $9300.00 
 
Horticulture Trainings: $9300.00 
 
Health/Nutrition Trainings: $9300.00 
 
Leadership and Good Governance: $9300.00 
 
Gender: $9300.00 
 
Sub-total: $46,500.00 
 
Overall Total: $99,500.00 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
ORGANIZATION 
 
 
 
¶5.  PNGWIA is a recognized and registered organization and has 
worked in partnership with organizations such as Papua New 
Guinea National Agriculture and Research Institute (NARI), 
Department of Agriculture and Livestock (DAL), Australia Women 
In Agriculture (AWIA), Donor partners such as AUSAID, NZAid, 
South Pacific Commission (SPC) and other partners.  It has a 
membership of well over 3-4000 members throughout PNG registered 
in all sectors of Agriculture activities. Currently PNGWIA's 
Bank Accounts are managed by NARI and, provides audited reports 
on PNGWIA and when requested. 
 
 
 
PNGWIA has its own Executives and office bearers and Committee 
members who manage its affairs with women made up of Farmers, 
Scientists and Female Extension Officers and in Partnership with 
NARI and other stakeholders. The organization had a good 
reputation since its inception in 2006 - 2010 now and in a short 
span of time it has 3-4000 members. With the support of other 
collaborating Partners such as Australian Women in Agriculture, 
(Crawford Fund) NARI and other collaborating partners and its 
registered members the organization is successful. 
BERG