Plan International

Phase two PNG WaSH work

The workshop is for a phase 2 of the Water for Women Consortium project on Tuesday, 8th of August in Port Moresby.

The inception workshop aims to bring together key government stakeholders and partners to align support for Water for Women Consortium (WfWC) Phase 2.

The workshop will outline the WfWC project objectives, scope and requirements for the new phase in which it provides an overview of previous phase’s successes, challenges as well as lessons learnt and will also layout the groundwork for what is expected in the new phase.

High levels of violence against children revealed

Launched locally at a high-profile event in Port Moresby, the ‘Unseen and Unsafe: Underinvestment in Ending Violence Against Children in the Pacific and Timor-Leste’ report shows that over 70 percent or 4 million children across eight countries experience violent discipline at home, including 2.8 million (75 percent of the child population) in Papua New Guinea.