Introduce, promote and maintain programs and initiatives that are community-focused in order to strengthen civil society engagement and ownership of issues in the resource sector

PNG Resource Governance Coalition

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  • The objectives of the Coalition are to:

    Be used as an umbrella organization to encompass all CSOs including community-based, faith-based, legal, environmental, transparency and anti-corruption and other non-governmental organizations that have an interest and work in or related to the Extractive Sector; accountability and the governance of the sector and the proceeds from the management and utilization of the resources;

    Contribute constructively to civil society’s participation in the introduction, promotion, awareness, and implementation of the EITI in PNG; including to hold industry and government accountable and support and guide CSO members of the EITI Multi-Stakeholder Group;

    Introduce, promote and maintain programs and initiatives that are community-focused in order to strengthen civil society engagement and ownership of issues in the resource sector;

    Develop understanding and partnerships with other likeminded resource governance organizations locally and internationally;

    Maintain high standards of good governance for the Coalition and its members;

    Establish and maintain a register of membership, as the basis for programs and outreach activities; and

    Do all such things as are incidental or conducive to the attainment of the objectives or any of them.

  • PNGRGC’s strategic partners have been Publish What You Pay (UK), CIMC, Institute of National Affairs (INA), Transparency International PNG (TIPNG), Business Against Corruption Alliance (BACA), Center for Environmental Law and Community Rights (CELCOR), Eco-Forestry Forum (EFF), and various other community-based organizations and institutions.

    Publish What You Pay, CIMC and INA and provided administrative and technical support to PNGRGC. Business Against Corruption Alliance has provided funding assistance for radio broadcasts and roadshows. TIPNG funded a workshop conducted by PNGRGC in Kavieng IN 2015. CELCOR, EFF, and others have provided technical assistance during regional roadshows.

    PNGRGC has a well-equipped, functioning office that is currently located at Level 2 IPA Building and is managed by the Consultative Implementation and Monitoring Council.

    PNGRGC recently completed three subnational capacity-building training workshops funded by the European Union through CIMC.PNGRGC has also conducted three joint provincial EITI training workshops in Kavieng, Lae, and Wewak in association with the PNGEITI National Secretariat and with funding assistance from the World Bank.

State- CSO Partnership

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  • The Civil Society Desk is a new program created within CIMC in 2012 based on government advice. It was created to coordinate and provide secretariat support services to the development of the State-Civil Society Partnership Policy. Previously it was known as the State-Civil Society Partnership Initiative Desk but was changed to CIMC Civil Society Desk due to the inclusion of other tasks

  • Key objective (s) of the CIMC Civil Society Desk is to:

    Facilitate the development of the State-Civil Society Partnership initiative;

    Coordinate and facilitate formal dialogue and partnership between Government and Civil Society Organizations;

    It’s a bridging or contact point for Government and Civil Society Organisations.

  • Coordinate and provide secretariat support services on the State-Civil Society Partnership Policy initiative;

    Coordinate and facilitate annual National Roundtable meetings between Civil Society Organisations and Government;

    Convey Civil Society issues and recommendations coming from meetings and workshops to government;

    Organising general Civil Society meetings on need basis;

    Networking and partnership with key civil society partners;

    Develop and provide research based Civil Society profile and data base.

  • CSOs

    The CIMC Civil Society Desk has partners from all Civil Society sectors because of the nature of its works. The desk’s key partners include CSOs from the following sectors:

    Health

    Education

    Disability

    Environment

    Economic/Agriculture

    Law and Governance

    Gender and Women

    Youth

    Churches

    Provincial CSOs

    Government

    Department of National planning and Monitoring;

    Department for Community Development & Religion;

    Department of Education;

    Department of Justice and Anthony General.

    Donors

    Asian Development bank (ADB);

    European Union;

    UNDP;

    DFAT.