Less Planning More Action
Papua New Guinea anticipates exponential growth in the next few years as many resource projects come into production. Where does it anticipate spending the bulk of that new found wealth? Government has given us its strategic pillars where much of the money is going to be spent. They will be in universal primary education, in basic health, in infrastructure, in tackling law and order and in growing the economy. They are indeed strategic but they need now to be broken down to far more specific areas for far concentrated effort. For let us not forget that the above strategic pillars of development have been every administration’s priority development goals since 1975. Yet despite growing budgets, including contributions from donor sources, key social and economic indicators in the country remain depressed and in real terms have regressed. Child and maternal mortality remain the highest in the Asia Pacific region. Access to schools, doctors and medicine and to clean water is negligible and