Editor’s Note

Dear Valued Partners and Stakeholders, welcome to our first E-news edition for 2022. The edition carries news stories about CIMC activities from late last year 2021.

We hope that this year will be a better one for CIMC to fulfill its core responsibilities after two challenging years due to the upsurge and increased impact of Covid-19 in the country.

Although faced with severe limitations, CIMC was able to conduct some activities including Sectoral Committee meetings and participate in stakeholder and partner organized workshops during this period (2019-2021). 

Some work was done in three provinces by the Governance and Service Delivery Sectoral Committee through a partnership consortium led by World Vision International to strengthen Elementary Education in selected schools in Madang, Central and Morobe provinces. 

CIMC was able to successfully complete and launch the project in all the schools and have seen some positive outcomes from this project. CIMC also participated at meetings and workshops organised by partners including Government departments. 

Given the uncertainty around Covid-19 and the need to live the “new normal” CIMC will endeavour to bring further updates on our activities during the year during which time we expect to pick up some momentum on more activities.  

CIMC is also taking part in the Informal Economy Policy Regional Consultations as a major partner that has been working to see the development and implementation of the informal economy related policies and laws including the Informal Economy Voice Strategy.

We hope this issue provides an insight into some CIMC work during this period and hope you will appreciate the contents.