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.

Introduction

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.

Partnership and Participation

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A health trainer teaches a community group about HIV

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.

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.

ADRA Clinic Facility

Mobile Clinic Conducted in a remote village in the Morobe Province

Health

Participants attending floriculture training as part of the small enterprise

development component in the HIV/AIDS program

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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.

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 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

Water Sanitation and Hygiene

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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

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.

Governance

Emergency Management

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.

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Church Partnership Program (CPP) Year 9, 10, 11

AU$ 4, 327, 794.00

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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.

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.

An adult student doing practical exercise on board

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.

Education

Project History

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Rural Water and Sanitation

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Upgrading Water Supply at Kambubu SDA School

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CSOs Organizing Returnees to Education (CORE) Partnership

AU$ 756,238

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Literacy for Life (LfL) AU$ 248, 663

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Safeguarding and Empowering Communities Through

Upgrading Agricultural Skills, Disaster Preparedness, and

Environmental Management (SECURE) US$ 300, 000

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Port Moresby Small Economic Development (POMSED)

AUD 274,981

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WASH PGK 980,000

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PNG Community Based Disaster Preparedness

€ 274 000,

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