Introduction The Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA) is a global humanitarian organization with a mission to work with people in poverty and distress to create just and positive change. ADRA Papua New Guinea belongs to the worldwide ADRA network, comprised of 120 supporting and implementing country sectors include Food Security; Health; Economic Growth; Education; and Emergency Management. ADRA Papua New Guinea has developed its expertise in these sectors and in various subsectors, specifically in Health, Water and Sanitation and Governance. ADRA Papua New Guinea (PNG) employs a team of experienced staff that design, manage, and implements its programs in accordance with donor, ADRA policies, and requirements. ADRA s technical water specialist, HIV testing and counselling specialist, M&E specialist, and an adult education specialist. The administrative and managerial team includes the Country Director, Program Director, Finance Manager, HR Manager, Project Manager. Partnership and Participation ADRA Papua New Guinea has partnered with several development agencies, government ministries and departments, and educational and research institutions to deliver development programs to communities throughout the country. We view collaboration as a cost-effective and time-saving means for implementing projects, sharing lessons, and combining technical experience and expertise for maximum project impact. ADRA values the partnership with donor partners that includes, AusAID, NZAID, USAID, ADB, EU,EC, GoPNG, PNGSDP and local communities which has enabled ADRA PNG implement its programs in PNG. ADRA PNG has developed excellent relationships with both international and local non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and community-based organizations (CBOs) in Papua New Guinea, and often partner with organizations to further our objectives. ADRA Papua New Guinea has a strong relationship with the Seventh-Day Adventist Church in PNG as well as other Anglican churches as evident by the CPP project which is now in its ninth year of implementation. ADRA Papua New Guinea is also has strong partnerships with the ADRA South Pacific Regional office and ADRA network as a whole.
Health ADRA Papua New Guinea has been implementing health programs for more than 15 years through a coordinated effort stemming from a program strategic plan to enable learning at individual, program and organization levels. Through its programs, ADRA PNG focuses on HIV prevention interventions through HIV education and awareness, sexual reproductive health and Sexually Transmitted Infections and HIV counselling and testing. ADRA PNG envisions a family approach to addressing the HIV epidemic, having already implemented interventions such as home based care (HBC), mobile clinic, STI treatment, and child sponsorship for its stand-alone ADRA Clinic. Through training and capacity building techniques, ADRA PNG builds skills in interpersonal communication, income generating activities and leadership to create an increased awareness in men, women and boys and girls to achieve monetary goals in life and explore leadership styles which can be applied to managing their own family. Mobile Clinic Conducted in a remote village in the Morobe Province Through involvement in these activities families will improve their household income and strengthened participants belief in avoiding HIV infection and remaining HIV free. The HIV prevention program experience points to an integrated community development program with ADRA PNG working closely with many organizations and government agencies such as the provincial AIDS committee and National Department of Health (NDoH). To align with the Department for Religion, Youth and Community Development (DfRY&CD) policy the HIV program engages with communities in an approach that builds on the strength in PNG cultures for storytelling to discuss HIV and AIDS at the community level. A health trainer teaches a community group about HIV Participants attending floriculture training as part of the small enterprise development component in the HIV/AIDS program ADRA Clinic Facility
Water Sanitation and Hygiene A mother and her children doing the dishes at their doorstep, they no longer walk long distance to fetch water for, bathing, cooking, drinking and cleaning the dishes and doing laundry. ADRA PNG has been delivering Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) programs for ten years. WASH activities address the provision of sustainable clean drinking water, health training and improved sanitation facilities. ADRA PNG has implemented projects that incorporate hygiene and sanitation training to improve practices in the community. The key items addressed by the WASH program are in water: by improving access to sustainable clean drinking water (such as gravity fed system, rain catchment, shallow dug wells) for rural communities so that women no longer walk a long distance to collect water and risk being harassed; and health: by improving hygiene and sanitation practices for rural communities through awareness and training. These issues were identified through baseline studies and integrated with the health trainings, with participants identifying some of the practices that needed to be changed. WASH activities also include HIV/AIDS awareness as part of the health training and basic book keeping for financial transactions in relation to the projects sustainability. This complements ADRA PNG s Health program. These activities have a positive impact on the community as they address the important issues in the community that have been ignored or not addressed for many generations. The activities have helped communities identify positive changes within the household and community as a whole. The water and sanitation program is also designed to improve the capacity of beneficiaries; the project construction phase is a hands-on training for participants to carry out maintenance for sustainability purposes. Participants are supervised during the construction of the water supply system, they are also thought to identify the names of each item and how it works by doing so they are able to maintain the system after ADRA leaves the community. ADRA PNG responds to Water and Sanitation issues by: Providing quality water schemes Provide sanitation training and education Provide training on water supply system maintenance Provide latrines Provide basic book keeping training for sustainability Provide HIV/AIDS awareness
Governance ADRA PNG has been managing the Church Partnership Program (CPP) for nine years. CPP programs provide funding to 7 mainline churches including Seventh Day Adventist through ADRA PNG; therefore this program focuses on supporting the capacity building of the Seventh Day Adventist (SDA) church in PNG to proactively address development issues in communities that it serves by utilizing development approaches. The main outcomes of this CPP project are: (i) Institutional Strengthening, (ii) Improved Service Delivery and (iii) Public Sector Governance. Teachers in the CPP project installing new software on computers to improve student learning Emergency Management ADRA PNG s DRR project is aims to increase community s resilience and preparedness to disaster. It guides communities to identify hazards and their vulnerability to disasters. The project also helps them to see the importance to prepare for a disaster hence they develop a community disaster risk reduction plan which consists of a hazard map, evacuation plan, communication plan and how people can work together to reduce vulnerability and save lives and property. DRR project complements our WASH project through sanitation awareness education and agriculture project through the seed multiplication training that is conducted during project implementation. The sanitation and hygiene training shared health practices such as proper water storage and hand washing; with agriculture training improving crop production, cultivation and storage. ADRA staff assisting the community during Agriculture training as NARI officer looks on. Disaster Awareness Training for the Community ADRA Project officer presents hygiene kits to IDP s at Patep.
Education ADRA PNG Adult Education Program has been in existence for the last 15 years. It was started in 1997 to 2003 basically targeting the training for literacy teachers in partnership with SDA Women Ministry in Morobe and Port Moresby, Bougainville and Manus Provinces. It continued to the second phase through CSO empowerment concept when projects were implemented also in Eastern Highlands, Morobe and Central Provinces and Bougainville. In the third phase the program was extended to East New Britain from 2009 to 2012. The Adult Education program is now into its fourth phase where a CORE and Literacy for Life projects exist. In the CORE Project the program is now being extended to New Ireland and West New Britain Provinces through the SDA Church network and the L4L with their partner stakeholders outside of SDA Church network. The goal of these projects is to strengthen literacy service delivery in the New Guinea Islands and Central Provinces respectively in partnership with stakeholders who have the similar goals and objectives. An adult student doing practical exercise on board The focus of this program is to holistically develop a person so that he or she becomes literate by being able to Read, Write, Understand, Organize and Implement the skills and knowledge gained. The literacy is complemented by basic skills training and capacity building component for partner CSO leaders. Project History ADRA Papua New Guinea has a long history of projects; therefore here you will only find projects from the last three years. For an extensive list please contact ADRA PNG. Church Partnership Program (CPP) Year 9, 10, 11 AU$ 4, 327, 794.00 : Rural Health and Sanitation
Rural Water and Sanitation Rural WASH Upgrading Water Supply at Kambubu SDA School : : : : CSOs Organizing Returnees to Education (CORE) Partnership AU$ 756,238 Literacy for Life (LfL) AU$ 248, 663 Safeguarding and Empowering Communities Through Upgrading Agricultural Skills, Disaster Preparedness, and Environmental Management (SECURE) US$ 300, 000
Port Moresby Small Economic Development (POMSED) AUD 274,981 WASH PGK 980,000 PNG Community Based Disaster Preparedness 274 000,