Role of Australian Aid in Service Delivery

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Role of Australian Aid in Service Delivery

• What should be the role of Australian Aid?
• Who is delivering services?
• How are those services being resourced?

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Increased PNG Budget Allocation

• 2006 2007 budgets allocated more funding for
  MTDS priorities - Health, Education, Transport
• Two supplementary budgets
• A significant part of K1.1 billion allocated to
  upgrading education, health and transport
  infrastructure
• K180 million allocated to upgrade facilities and
  medical equipment
• K150 million to upgrading national high schools,
  primary high schools, provincial high schools and
  technical and vocational centres.

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But still inadequate

• Donors provide the bulk of development
  expenditures in key areas
• Two thirds in health
• Three quarters in education.
• Recurrent costs (eg salaries) average 42
• Not enough left for goods and services

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Decline in Services

• One in 10 children die before their 5th birthday
• A woman in is 40 times more likely to die in
  childbirth than a woman in Australia
• Gross primary school enrolment only 59

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Why? Analysis by NEFC

• Confusion of roles and responsibilities between
  national and sub-national levels of government
• often exacerbated by poor communication
• poor accountability mechanisms
• Inequitable intergovernmental financing
  arrangements - many provinces not adequately
  funded
• inadequate support from national agencies
• lack of capacity

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Australian Support to National Government Agencies

• Central Agencies (Treasury, Finance etc)
• Eg Treasury, Finance
• Improve management build capacity
• Strengthen processes systems
• National Departments (Health, Education, Works)
• Eg NDoH, NDoE, Dept Works, etc
• Improve management build capacity
• Improve processes systems

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AusAID support to National Government Departments

• AusAID Funds for key services 2006 / 2007
• Health gt 100m kina
• Education gt 100m kina
• Infrastructure gt 120m kina
• HIV gt 50m kina
• Increasingly through Sector Wide Approaches
• Infrastructure 85 through NDoW
• Education 27 through NDoE

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Australias Support to Statutory Bodies

• Electoral Commission
• Election preparedness implementation
• Voter education
• National Broadcasting Commission
• Access to information
• Voice of the people of PNG
• PNG Sports Foundation
• Community Development eg Strongim Komuniti Klabs
• Awareness raising eg HIVAIDS Gender Based
  Violence

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AusAID Sub-National Strategy

• DLPGAs PPII program
• improve provincial corporate and administrative
  systems
• support better service delivery.
• Initial three provinces with six more provinces
  coming on stream this year.
• Positive incentive approach.
• NRI review of the organic law on provincial and
  local level government
• NEFC new intergovernmental financing arrangements
  more provinces better off

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Who is Delivering the Services?

• Not all services are delivered by government
• Private Sector delivers services
• resource companies eg mines community development
• contracting companies national and
  international
• small enterprises responding to demand
• Non-Governmental Agencies deliver services
• Salamo Uniting Church training centre
• Environmental NGOs
• Communities provide their own services
• Often with limited or no external support

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Churches Role in Service Delivery

• 46 of all health facilities
• 60 of rural health services
• 5 out of 8 nursing schools
• all 14 community health worker schools
• 47 of elementary schools
• 53 of primary schools
• 30 of secondary schools
• 41 vocational schools
• 67 teacher education institutions

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AusAID support to Civil Society

• AusAID directly supports civil society to deliver
  services
• Community Development Scheme over 1,000 grants
  to communities civil society partners
  nationwide (eg Milne Bay Counselling)
• Grants to NGOs to carry out electoral awareness
  raising
• Grants to community radio or other media
  organisations to improve access to information
• Grants to sports clubs
• Churches Partnership Program for HIV, health,
  education, training

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AusAID support to Civil Society

• AusAID also supports civil society to-
• Encourage debate eg PNG Update
• Demand and develop mechanisms for good governance
  
• eg accountability, transparency, inclusion,
  particpation
• BE accountable ie get their own houses in
  order. Are they democratic? Are women and youth
  involved in making decisions?

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Who is Resourcing Services?

• PNG Government funds non-state agencies (NGOs,
  CSOs, and Churches) to deliver services
• Donors fund service delivery by non-government
  agencies
• Private sector funds services as well as
  providing them
• Communities individuals make significant
  contributions in cash or in kind
• Service Delivery requires a Partnership

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Democratic Governance?

• Constructive partnerships between the state,
  civil society and private companies
• Strengthen all organisations so that are able to
  perform their responsibilities
• Encourage and foster democratic structures and
  processes in all organisations suited to the
  local or ognaisational context.

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Democratic Governance Program - Strategic
Principles

• Foster state and civil society partnerships
• Work as local a level as possible
• Build PNG capacity to train, advise and build
  capacity

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Democratic Governance Program

• Participatory Planning
• Small Grants for Community Projects
• Strengthening of local organisations
• eg LLGs, CSOs, village courts, CBOs, churches,
  customary groups, etc
• Awareness raising
• eg Elections, LPV, Gender equality, HIV/AIDS,
  Human Rights, Nation building, peace, restorative
  justice

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Role of Australian Aid in Service Delivery?

• To support service provision by supporting the
  strengthening of government and non-government
  systems and processes
• To foster and promote democratic governance in
  government and non-government systems and
  processes