United States Agency for International Development (USAID)

In collaboration with ExxonMobil PNG, Motu Koita Assembly and National Capital District Provincial Health Authority (NCD PHA) launched a second mobile vaccination clinic in Port Moresby, today.

This second mobile vaccination clinic joins the recognizable “big yellow bus” operated by the Motu Koita Assembly to take COVID-19 vaccines directly to NCD residents, targeting small villages and hard-to-reach settlements that may not otherwise have access to vaccines.

The bus will maintain a steady supply of COVID-19 vaccines donated through the COVAX Facility.

This is to improve natural resource management; increase access to reliable and affordable energy in the country; as well as to empower women entrepreneurs in PNG.

“The United States is a proud partner with Papua New Guinea, Australia, New Zealand and Japan in the goal to bring electricity to 70 percent of PNG homes by 2030, empower women owned businesses, and to protect the lands, forests and waterways of PNG for generations to come,” said its embassy.

The 85 million brings the U.S. government contribution to more than PGK110 million ($32.5 million) since 2016.

USAID awarded K475,594 (US$140,000) in grants to the Papua New Guinea Centre for Locally Managed Areas (PNGCLMA) and Mahonia Na Dari Research and Conservation Centre (MND).

USAID awarded PNGCLMA the grant Sustainability of Community Mangrove Management through Strengthening Government Partnership. PNGCLMA will work with the Kairuku District communities and stakeholders to finalise and implement plans to strengthen the biodiversity conservation of the particularly biodiverse mangroves of Hall Sound Bay in Central Province.