USAID-LGP supports PNG Environmental Alliance (PNGEA)
News Highlights November 2, 2022
PNG Environmental Alliance (PNGEA) completes second general membership meeting in Port Moresby (24 -25 October).
PNG EA was set up with support from USAID’s Lukautim Graun Program to give civil society a voice on critical environmental issues in PNG. Through PNG EA, civil society groups now have an environmental advocacy platform for coordinated and collective action to help guide natural resource development in PNG that safeguards the rights of land and resource owners, as well as care for our environment by promoting global best practice in the way we manage and use our natural resources.
Key outcomes from the meeting include:
- Renewed understanding of PNGEA’s organizational management, including arrangements for commencement of a full-time coordinator.
- Decision on new members of the PNGEA
- Agreed joint action on a moratorium on Forestry Clearance Authorities and Incorporated Land Groups
- Agreed joint action on PNGEA’s position statement to the new PNG Government about PNG’s climate change REDD+ regulations development
- Confirmed, agreed, and finalized PNGEA fundraising strategy and grievance mechanism
PNG EA members include:
Bismarck Ramu Group, Centre for Environmental Law and Community Rights (CELCOR), Consultative Implementation and Monitoring Committee (CIMC), FORCERT (Forests for Certain – Forests for Life), Institute of National Affairs (INA), PNG Council of Churches (PNGCC) Research Conservation Foundation (RCF), Wildlife Conservation Society PNG (WCS PNG) and Bread for the World (BftW)
