What works in Port Moresby
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Evidence snapshot for Port Moresby
Port Moresby has benefited from targeted safety and service interventions. The Meri Seif women-only bus service grew from 1 bus serving 21,000 riders in 2014 to 11 buses serving over 600,000 riders yearly by 2019, directly responding to a 2014 finding that over 90% of women and girls had experienced violence on public transport. The Family Support Centre at Port Moresby General Hospital was seeing approximately 15 clients per day before a 2016–17 upgrade added capacity for 12 additional clients daily—over 1,000 more people annually. The evidence demonstrates significant scale-up in violence-response services but does not quantify broader development outcomes across the city.
Drawn from: Papua New Guinea Rural Communications Project · Papua New Guinea National REDD+ Programme — GCF Results-Based Payment · Papua New Guinea's Digital-Accessibility Gap — A 2025 WCAG Pledge Against a 9.5/100 DARE Index Score · Family Support Centres — Papua New Guinea's Hospital-Based One-Stop Model for Family and Sexual Violence Survivors · Meri Seif — Women-Only Safe Bus Service, Port Moresby · Family and Sexual Violence Units - Royal Papua New Guinea Constabulary · SevisPass — Papua New Guinea's TECH5-Built National Digital Identity System · SME Access to Finance Project — Papua New Guinea's Risk-Share Loan Guarantee Facility, and Its Overstated Results
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Strengths & weaknesses vs peers
Strengths
Carbon — sequestration / storage, evidenced +56 pts 83 here · 28 average
Evaluation evidence +51 pts 100 here · 49 average
Documented learning +26 pts 100 here · 74 average
Inclusiveness / equity +24 pts 67 here · 43 average
Sustainability (ongoing) +16 pts 94 here · 78 average
Achievement / evidence +12 pts 100 here · 88 average
Gender-mainstreaming embedding +11 pts 100 here · 89 average
Fire resilience — risk reduction, evidenced +11 pts 17 here · 6 average
Weaknesses
Evidence of learning impact -10 pts 17 here · 26 average
Evaluated outcomes -12 pts 67 here · 79 average
Transparency, ethics & data protection -14 pts 33 here · 47 average
Equity & inclusion -17 pts 33 here · 50 average
Teacher capability & pedagogy -21 pts 17 here · 37 average
Innovation level -24 pts 38 here · 62 average
Demonstrated reach -26 pts 50 here · 76 average
Water & soil — retention, infiltration, erosion control -31 pts 17 here · 48 average
Efficiency -33 pts 0 here · 33 average
Effectiveness -34 pts 33 here · 68 average
Curator validation -40 pts 33 here · 73 average
Score profile vs peers
Coloured bar: Port Moresby. Grey bar: peer average across the corpus. Both on a common 0–100 scale.
Points compare this place's average on each dimension with the average across all evaluated places, on a common 0–100 scale. Know more
Top good practices here
Papua New Guinea Rural Communications Project · 92
Papua New Guinea National REDD+ Programme — GCF Results-Based Payment · 67
Papua New Guinea's Digital-Accessibility Gap — A 2025 WCAG Pledge Against a 9.5/100 DARE Index Score · 64
Meri Seif — Women-Only Safe Bus Service, Port Moresby · 63
Family and Sexual Violence Units - Royal Papua New Guinea Constabulary · 63
SevisPass — Papua New Guinea's TECH5-Built National Digital Identity System · 60
Each number is the practice's overall 0–100 quality score against its catalogue's rubric. Know more
Recommended to adopt or replicate
Transferable practices from elsewhere that address this place's gaps.
Ciudad Mujer — El Salvador's Integrated Women's Services Programme · fit 100/100
- Rated highly transferable
- Backed by strong evidence
- Addresses this place's weak dimensions
Already adopted in 3 other places
SASA! Community Mobilisation Programme against Intimate Partner Violence — Uganda · fit 100/100
- Rated highly transferable
- Backed by strong evidence
- Addresses this place's weak dimensions
Already adopted in 4 other places
Karya — Fair-Wage AI Data-Work Platform Bringing Digital Income to Rural India · fit 100/100
- Backed by strong evidence
- Addresses this place's weak dimensions
safe+natal — Comadrona-Designed Smartphone Checklist for Maternal Risk Screening in Rural Guatemala · fit 100/100
- Backed by strong evidence
- Addresses this place's weak dimensions
Digital Green — Video-Mediated Agricultural Extension · fit 100/100
- Backed by strong evidence
- Addresses this place's weak dimensions
Kartu Prakerja – National Digital Skills and Financial Inclusion Programme · fit 100/100
- Backed by strong evidence
- Addresses this place's weak dimensions
Rwanda's Land Tenure Regularization Programme — Titling Land in Women's Names · fit 90/100
- Rated highly transferable
- Backed by strong evidence
- Addresses this place's weak dimensions
- Rated highly transferable
- Backed by strong evidence
- Addresses this place's weak dimensions
Already adopted in 6 other places
Fit estimates how well a practice matches this place, 0 (poor) to 100 (excellent); the list is ordered to favour practices that address this place's gaps. Know more