What works in Papua New Guinea
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Quality scores are 0–100 rubric scores; “strong evidence” reflects study design; adoptions count documented replications elsewhere. Know more
Evidence snapshot for Papua New Guinea
Papua New Guinea has seen significant progress in rural connectivity and digital access over the past decade. The Rural Communications Project extended mobile coverage from approximately 20% to 90% in rural areas by building 59 solar-powered base stations (2014–15), providing an estimated 500,000 rural residents with first-time telephony access. More recently, digital infrastructure has expanded to support financial inclusion and skills development: the Digital Bank ID Card Pilot enrolled 2,548 unbanked farmers (47% women) in East Sepik Province, while the EU-STREIT PNG Digital Resource Centres trained over 1,500 students and farmer groups in digital skills and e-commerce across five solar-powered hubs (2023–24). Evidence also documents a major public health innovation: SWEEP-TB screened 43% of Daru Island's population using AI-assisted chest X-ray technology, detecting 69 confirmed TB cases at a rate of 853 per 100,000 screened.
Drawn from: EU-STREIT PNG Digital Resource Centres — Solar ICT Hubs Connecting Sepik Smallholder Farmers to Global Markets · Papua New Guinea Rural Communications Project · Digital Bank ID Card Pilot — Village-Chief-Vouched Biometric Identity for Unbanked Farmers in Papua New Guinea · SWEEP-TB — AI Chest X-Ray Screening Confronts Hidden Tuberculosis on Daru Island, Papua New Guinea · 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
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Strengths & weaknesses vs peers
Strengths
Evaluation evidence +51 pts 100 here · 49 average
Carbon — sequestration / storage, evidenced +51 pts 78 here · 27 average
Documented learning +26 pts 100 here · 74 average
Inclusiveness / equity +24 pts 67 here · 43 average
Achievement / evidence +13 pts 100 here · 87 average
Gender-mainstreaming embedding +11 pts 100 here · 89 average
Evidence of impact / measured public value +10 pts 67 here · 57 average
Weaknesses
Evaluated outcomes -11 pts 67 here · 78 average
Transparency, ethics & data protection -14 pts 33 here · 47 average
Scalability beyond pilot -14 pts 48 here · 62 average
Evidence of learning impact -18 pts 8 here · 26 average
Efficiency -32 pts 0 here · 32 average
Effectiveness -33 pts 33 here · 66 average
Water & soil — retention, infiltration, erosion control -37 pts 11 here · 48 average
Curator validation -40 pts 33 here · 73 average
Score profile vs peers
Coloured bar: Papua New Guinea. 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
SWEEP-TB — AI Chest X-Ray Screening Confronts Hidden Tuberculosis on Daru Island, Papua New Guinea · 67
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
Each number is the practice's overall 0–100 quality score against its catalogue's rubric. Know more
Cities with evaluated practice
Where the documented practice in Papua New Guinea concentrates — each city has its own evidence profile.
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
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
Abolition of Chhaupadi — Ending Menstrual Exile Huts in Nepal's Far- and Mid-Western Districts · fit 82/100
- Rated highly transferable
- Addresses this place's weak dimensions
Guyana's One-Third Gender Candidate Quota — Two Decades of Sustained Representation · fit 82/100
- Rated highly transferable
- Addresses this place's weak dimensions
Serbia's 40% Electoral Gender Quota — From One-in-Three to Near-Parity Party Lists (2020-2025) · fit 82/100
- Rated highly transferable
- Addresses this place's weak dimensions
Bogotá's Care Blocks (Manzanas del Cuidado) · fit 82/100
- Rated highly transferable
- Addresses this place's weak dimensions
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