The MoU also aims to provide alternate avenues of income generation for locals in Laigap-Porgera once the Porgera mine eventually shuts down.
Porgera CCI Chairman, Nickson Pakea, said the MoU provide relevant training programs for local people to venture into small and medium business enterprises.
“It means that whoever is already in the field to start up a small or medium business enterprise, we will promote them, and whoever wants to venture into business, we will train them and make them become businessmen or women,” he said.