Papua New Guinea Development Strategic Plan 2010-2030.

Papua New Guinea Development Strategic Plan 2010-2030 is a national plan that elaborates on how PNG can become a prosperous, middle income country by 2030. The directives and goals of the Constitution form the broad objectives of Papua New Guinea’s Development Strategic Plan.
To promote growth and reduce poverty the plan focuses on strategic areas. 1. Land reform, which aims at securing a well administered land market that serves the needs of landowners and contributes to the nation’s strategic development. Although PNG is endowed with abundant land resources, land has been difficult to access for development because 97 per cent of land is held under customary tenure and 3 percent of alienated land is mostly owned by the State. The emphasis of the Land Development Program is on improving the existing administration of customary and alienated land, including dispute resolution, and on strengthening the PNG institution of Incorporated Land Groups. 2. The energy reform goal is for households to have access to a reliable and affordable energy supply, and sufficient power be generated and distributed to meet future energy requirements and demands. 3. Rural development efforts will focus on strengthening lower levels of Government especially at the district and local level, promoting cooperative societies in all rural areas as an effective mechanism for developing agriculture and fisheries enterprises, establishing micro-finance banking agencies in all districts by 2030. 4. Agriculture and livestock sectors will focus on developing an agricultural sector responsive to international and domestic markets for a diverse range of products that also provide the best available income and job opportunities. Strategies include the land reform and improvements in productivity, extension services, use of new high yielding varieties of coffee, cocoa and copra, improvement of roads and general infrastructure to improve farmers’ access to markets, adoption and implementation of the International Codex food safety and fair trade standards. 5. Forestry focused on building a forestry sector that is sustainable and highly profitable. Efforts will focus on establishing a forest resource inventory, promoting sustainable forest management through reforestation and afforestation programs, preventing felling of virgin forests, pursuing downstream processing of forest products. 6. Energy and minerals focused on doubling -mineral exports, while minimizing the adverse impact on the environment. To this end, efforts will focus to strengthen the capacity of state institutions to administer and enforce mining regulations to ensure the Government’s policy is implemented effectively.
7. Environment sector focused on promoting a sustainable environment. To this end actions will seeks to ensure a balance between material wealth and a cleaner environment, economic incentives must be in place to deter pollution. Pollution taxes and transferable pollution permits will be used to fund clean production methods and technologies. Customary practices for enhancing and preserving the environment will also be strengthened as well as the monitoring and evaluation mechanisms in order to protect the environment.8. Climate change focused on adapting the the domestic impacts of climate change and contribute to global efforts to abate greenhouse gas emission. To this end, a national greenhouse gas emissions tax and permits incentive will be introduced to serve as a catalyst to promote the development of a low carbon society. 9. Natural disaster management focused on managing the risk of natural disasters. To this end, efforts will focus on implementing and enforcing building standards for the construction of infrastructure in disaster prone areas, promoting awareness, establishing an effective emergency line, improving the capacity of monitoring and evaluation mechanisms of early warning.
Regarding governance, monitoring, reporting and evaluation will be done at two levels. Firstly, at the strategic level, the Department of National Planning and Monitoring and responsible line agencies will be responsible to ensure that project outputs contribute to the outcomes identified in the strategy. Secondly, at the implementation level, line agencies and Department of National Planning and Monitoring will monitor project inputs and outputs to ensure that funds are used as intended.