Consortium Members & Partners

As consortium lead CARE PNG leverages extensive sub-national and community networks, experience and understanding of inclusive governance and gendered dimensions of development in rural areas. This expertise has been developed through a historical portfolio of education, inclusive governance, agricultural value chain, health, resilience and humanitarian response programming in rural PNG over the last 20 years. This has positioned CARE PNG strongly to address the constraints to education service delivery and improve resource flows by mobilising communities, training teachers and capacity building CEAs on school/teacher assessments and compliance. CARE PNG ensures that the project delivers results and meets objectives, including grant and program management, and monitoring, evaluation and reporting. CARE PNG promotes gender equality in all aspects of the project especially increasing understanding of equality for girls through the Community Leadership Program. CARE PNG oversees project implementation in Jiwaka, Western Highlands Province and Simbu while ADRA oversees project implementation in WNB.

To find out more about the international efforts of CARE,  you can visit their website: https://www.care.org.

ADRA, The Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA PNG), is a global humanitarian organisation with a mission to work with people to create a positive change. ADRA PNG belong to a worldwide ADRA network comprising of 120 countries in supporting and implementing Food Security; Health Economic, Growth, Education and Emergency Management. ADRA PNG has developed its expertise in these sectors and other subsectors in Health, Water and sanitation and Governance.

ADRA is a key consortium partner working in the West New Britain province. Under the PKS project ADRA delivers programs that address all the three outcome areas of the Pikinini Kisim Save project. ADRA works in close collaboration with the Provincial Education division in West New Britain to deliver training throughout all the districts in West New Britain provinces. One of its key achievements is the coordination and collaboration of its community facilitators of adult literacy trainers who are actively teachings parents how to read and write. The ADRA PNG Adult Education Program has been in existence for 15 years. It was started in 1997 to 2003 targeting training for literacy teachers in partnership with SDA Women Ministry in Morobe, Port Moresby, Bougainville and Manus Provinces. The Pikinini Kisim Save benefits from ADRA extensive experience in this area.

To find out more about the work of ADRA, you can visit their website here: https://adra.org/.

As a consortium partner, the University of Goroka’s (UOG) role involves the upgrading of teacher qualification of current elementary teachers and education stakeholder officers to achieve the Diploma of Early Childhood Education. UOG is providing teacher training in three provinces including Simbu, Jiwaka and Western Highlands Provinces (WHP).  The overall aim of the Diploma in Early Childhood Education program is to equip graduates with relevant skills and knowledge to enable them to comprehensively prepare a child up to 8 years old to become an engaged citizen. UOG has developed specific course requirements for the Pikinini Kisim Save project to ensure elementary teachers continue to teach but engage in their studies through flexible learning. This training started in December 2018 and UOG has so far enrolled 300 teachers.

To find out more about the UOG Diploma of Early Childhood, you can visit the course description here: http://unigoroka.ac.pg/academic%20programs/soe/dip_ece.html

To find out more about the University of Goroka, you can visit their website here: http://unigoroka.ac.pg/.

The Queensland University of Technology is one of the consortium partners. Its role in the PKS project is to design a shared learning space for all consortium partners, teachers, parents, students and communities. QUT uses an integration of co-design and participatory approaches and the use of creative processes to create an interactive space for engagement and sharing of materials and experiences. The research project contributes to the monitoring evaluation, and learning of the PKS project, in particular harnessing audio-visual and digital technologies for the sharing of information. Creative research outputs generated from the research process are situated within this educational hub. Many of these provide best practice case studies in elementary education and identify ways to share these case studies with others. The materials provided through the educational hub extend beyond the digital space to networks of teachers and those actively engaged in elementary education in their communities.

To find out more about QUT, you can visit their website here: https://www.qut.edu.au/.