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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