Boroko Residents Raise Concerns Over Drainage and Flooding During Rainy Weather
Port Moresby residents living in Boroko have raised concerns of heavy flooding after a recent construction of residential apartments. The residents who live near...
Category : Papua New Guinea
Safe Shelter a Major Factor in Ongoing Disaster Risk Reduction
With an analysis of the climate communities live in, IOM had identified that shelter is one of the most impacted aspects of the community’s livelihood....
NARI: Severe Food and Land Shortage for Coastal Islands
In a recent workshop facilitated by NARI has highlighted food security and climate change adaptation has key aspects to provide counter measures in prone regions....
Access to Clean Water and Reliable Sanitation Facilities Needed
by Kiwiana Ngabung – EMTV Online, Port Moresby With over half the population of Papua New Guinea without access to clean water and sanitation, the...
Works Officers learn About Disaster Reduction equipment
The Department of Works began its week’s training on how to operate and maintain Japanese Disaster Reduction equipment in Lae today. Twenty-five employees from the...
Malalaua Station Flooded
The Malalaua Station in the Gulf Province has been underwater leaving people distraught with houses flooded and food gardens destroyed. This comes after the continuous...
Forum aims to create Policy, addressing Rights for Internally Displaced Persons in PNG
The National Land and Property Rights Forum was aimed at creating a collective approach towards policy setting to address the growing issue of IDPs in...
PNG expecting a visit from YWAM’s medical ship ‘Ruach’
Image: YWAM Ships Newcastle Papua New Guinea will be expecting a medical ship along its coasts soon after the vessel undergoes some minor modifications in...
Climate Change and Development Authority: Building community resilience in PNG
Building community resilience is now an important task in terms of the ever so common talks of ‘climate change’ effects. The aim of resilience is...
PNG’s food crisis among unreported humanitarian disasters of 2016
The effects of the El Nino affected many communities causing droughts and frosts in what was stated as the worst the country has experienced in...