Y6B: World Population Hits 6
Billion!
Country Profile: Papua
New Guinea
| Vol. 7 No. 1 | Southpac NewsUNFPA Country Support Team for the South Pacific |
June 1999 |
BRIEF ROUNDUP |
| Technical Support Activities In a three-week mission to Papua New Guinea, on 30 January to 22 February, Ms. Susan Aradeon, CST Adviser on Population Advocacy and Information, Education and Communication, provided technical advice to national counterparts managing component projects in the Reproductive Health sub-programme. During the period, she held intensive consultations with coordinators of the "Role Models", "Tok Stret", and "Population Education" component projects, shuttling between the Departments of Health, Education, Planning, various NGOs and the UNFPA Field Office. The highlight of her mission was participation in an "Advocacy and IEC Strategy Development" Workshop, as a resource person, to develop a reproductive health IEC strategy, as the basis for a national advocacy strategy.
Dr. Praema Raghavan-Gilbert, Adviser on Reproductive Health and Gender, visited Papua New Guinea on 19-23 April to provide technical backstopping to the UNFPA Field Office and national project counterparts in discussions at Project Review Meetings of the relevant Reproductive Health sub-programme components and to conduct two seminars. The first technical seminar, "An Update on Intra-Uterine Devices", was attended by 11 medical doctors, 4 nurses and 3 programme management staff; it was organized by the Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University of Papua New Guinea, in collaboration with the National Department of Health. The adviser facilitated a 1-day workshop organized by the National Council of Women for 47 selected officials of its network. The objective of the workshop was to provide adequate information and knowledge to the NCW members on safe motherhood, family planning and contraceptives, gender issues in reproductive health and male involvement to enable them to be effective advocates at the grassroots level.
Ms. Susan Aradeon, CST Adviser on Population Advocacy and IEC, was in Cook Islands during 9-17 April for a familiarization and fact-finding visit, and to assist the Ministry of Health and various government and NGO project partners in developing a reproductive health advocacy and IEC strategy and plan of action. She also helped to review various IEC materials, both print and audio-visual, currently in use or being considered for reuse. Regular consultations were held throughout the mission with Dr. Teariki Tamarua, the Secretary of Health, and Sister Ngavaevae Teokotai, Reproductive Health Project Coordinator.
"Since my last mission to Niue in mid-1994, the country’s population had fallen from about 2,300 to an estimated 1,700, due to the continued out-migration of Niueans to New Zealand". On his recent mission, on 9-19 June, Mr. William House, CST Adviser on Population Policies and Development Strategies, was requested by the Government to assess the population and development situation, examine existing re-population strategies, and to ‘put some practical ideas together for Niue’.
From June to September, a series of in-country project review meetings and technical assistance missions will be mounted by the UNFPA Representative, Sub-Regional Office, with the joint participation of CST Advisers. These missions, to Cook Islands, Federated States of Micronesia, Kiribati, Marshall Islands, Samoa, Tonga, Tuvalu and Vanuatu, will be reported in the next issue of Southpac News.
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