Impact Health PNG Project

11/11/2025

👏Congratulations Mr. Mathew Kaluvia on your reappointment as CEO of East Sepik Provincial Health Authority-ESPHA for a second term!🥳

✍️Mr. Kaluvia's appointment for the next four years is effective 6th November 2025 - 6th November 2029.

🩺We look forward to continuing to work with you and your management team, together with East New Britain, Central & Simbu Provincial Health Authority, to improve access to quality essential health services, strengthen health systems to address health challenges, and improve health outcomes and health service delivery in . 💊

📌Congratulations again Mr. Kaluvia & East Sepik Provincial Health Authority-ESPHA!📍

07/11/2025

07/11/2025

Minister for Health Elias Kapavore, has directed the National Department of Health (NDoH) to move to digital registration of health workers in the country, by June 2026.

Speaking at a recent workshop on Digital Health Workers’ Registration, this week, Minister Kapavore said that digital registration of all cadres of health workers is a matter of critical concern which is long overdue.

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Photo Caption: Health Minister Hon. Elias Kapavore (front - fourth right) with participants at workshop this week.

06/11/2025

📌 A Project Coordination Committee (PCC) meeting for the Impact Health PNG Project was conducted at the Papua New Guinea National Department of Health office in Port Moresby yesterday.

The PCC meeting was as required, chaired by the Executive Manager, Strategic Policy & Planning Division, Mrs. Martina Suve-Hohora, and attended by the NDoH senior management.

📍The PCC is a management committee established by the Papua New Guinea National Department of Health primarily to provide operational guidance🔎for the Impact Health PNG Project under the World Bank Financing Agreement and the Corporate Governance Framework of the Papua New Guinea National Department of Health to provide operational oversight for all project activities and its operations.⚖️

📌The PCC meeting was vital to bring members of the Committee up-to-speed with key activity updates, review the delivery of project deliverables, recommend adjustments where needed, develop strategies to address challenges if any, and make recommendations to the Project Steering Committee (PSC).⏰

🎯The meeting was attended by Dr. Dora Lenturut-Katal, Deputy Secretary, Health Compliance & Standards, Dr. Peniel Boas, A/Public Health Director, Dr. Lutty Amos, EM, Population Health and Healthy Communities, Dr. Nora Dai, Chief Anesthetist, Sharon Aisi, A/Manager, Commercial Support, Sybilla Tulem, Manager HSIP Accounts, Mr. Judah Iparam, A/Manager Health Promotions, Mrs. Zerah Lauwo, Financial Controller and project management team led by Coordinator Mr. Billy Naidi.📍

29/10/2025

💥Great catching up with Central Provincial Authority (CPHA) CEO Dr. James Amini and members of his senior management at the CPHA Office in Port Moresby yesterday.📌

✍️The Impact Health PNG Project management team met with the CPHA team to provide an update on the project implementation and discuss CPHA plans on the use of Disbursement Linked Indicator (DLI) funds it had received from the Papua New Guinea National Department of Health through the World Bank Pacific-financed Impact Health PNG Project.

📍Dr. Amini thanked the project on the performance-based funding it had received after meeting and improving project indicator targets set.

"With the current budgetary challenges that PHAs are facing, the IMPACT Health funds that we received has been a Godsend for us," said Dr. Amini.

"We want to thank the IMPACT Health Project for assisting us in a way with the money that is not coming from our usual sources," Dr. Amini said.

📌CPHA is now planning to address four key areas initially with the DLI funds it has received.

🩺💊 These include ✅improving Maternal units in various facilities, ✅distributing baby bundles to encourage ANC visits and supervised delivery, ✅park some funding for medical evacuations and ✅deal with medical supply challenges in the province.

The Impact Health PNG Project continues to work with the project provinces of Central, East New Britain, East Sepik Provincial Health Authority-ESPHA & Simbu Provincial Health Authority to improve health service delivery at the frontlines!

16/10/2025

Significant achievement for the Papua New Guinea National Department of Health and the way forward for the department. Well done Hon. Minister Kapavore and NDoH!

30/09/2025

Molot lights up!

In , Disbursement Linked Indicator (DLI) funds received by the Provincial Health Authority (PHA) through the Papua New Guinea National Department of Health's World Bank Pacific-financed Impact Health PNG Project is improving health service delivery at the frontlines - through partnership collaborative efforts.

The Impact Health PNG Project uses project indicators called DLIs - a results-based financing system where PHAs implement specific indicators and are rewarded for meeting targets set under these indicators.

Molot Community Health Post in the Duke of York (DOY's) main Island, is an hour's boat ride from Kokopo, the capital of East New Britain.

Thanks to support using DLI funds, a 10-KvA solar system was procured and transported to Molot that now lights up this Level 2 health facility, currently under construction with local government funding and nearing completion.

Molot Community Health Post serves a catchment population of more than 7,000 people and currently operates out of an old prison block manned by five health workers.

The Impact Health PNG Project team last week visited Molot with state agency partner representatives from the Department of National Planning & Monitoring, Department of Treasury, National Procurement Commission, and PHA staff to see first-hand how DLI funds are used by to support health service delivery at the frontlines.

25/09/2025

Timely gifts to the people of & the greater New Guinea Islands region thanks to the recently ended financed by & implemented by the Papua New Guinea National Department of Health.

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25/09/2025

Gutpela luksave Simbu Provincial Health Authority and great initiative!

22/09/2025

While preparations were underway in the week before Independence, health workers in East New Britain (ENB) were also busy attending various trainings in Kokopo.

District health workers, including officers in charge (OICs) of health facilities in ENB attended polio training in preparation for the second round of vaccination in the province.
In the same week, more than 20 participants from the polio training continued on to attend an environment & social safeguards (E&S) training, focusing on establishing a grievance redress mechanism (GRM).

The E&S and GRM trainings were conducted by the Papua New Guinea National Department of Health's Impact Health PNG Project financed by as part of the Bank's requirements to establish a feedback system or mechanism for all its projects.

The training conducted by the Project’s Environment & Social Safeguards Specialist Ms. Martha Ginau, raised interest and discussion from participants on various conflicts, including potential conflicts and processes in place in dealing with conflicts or complaints.

The health workers were from both government and church-run facilities in the province, with participants keen to share insights into existing systems they use and what processes/services were there to deal with other issues by other stakeholders.

The training covered an overview of the GRM, different conflicts and social issues faced by health workers or health facilities, different ways of seeking redress & solving conflicts, processes involved in handling & resolving conflicts, working with different stakeholders & parties in solving conflicts, and developing action plans to establish complaints mechanism such as installing suggestion, complaints and compliment boxes by which patients or clients may raise issues of concern and their personal observations.

Participants from now join more than 100 other health workers in , & who have attended a similar E&S and GRM training, with some health facilities moving forward in setting up their feedback mechanisms.

Setting up processes to be able to address conflicts or grievances is a requirement for all World Bank-funded projects. It is also one of the Impact Health PNG Project objectives; to create demand for services, and is important in the health care system for patient engagement, in data integration and patient acquisition, etc.

GRMs help healthcare workers communicate and engage with patients effectively, ensuring patients feel understood and cared for.

GRM systems integrate various sources of patient data to provide a comprehensive view of patients’ habits and activities and help with creating demand for health care services if patients or clients feel they are being heard. By managing a patient relationship before, during, and after treatment, GRM systems play a vital role in patient acquisition and retention.

05/09/2025

🎉Great to see Impact Health PNG Project provinces, including East New Britain (ENBPHA), conduct some of its activities using performance-based funds received (Disbursement Linked Indicator funds) through the project - to improve health service delivery at the frontlines.🩺

🇵🇬Both the Impact Health PNG Project and the recently ended COVID-19 Response Projects are implemented by the Papua New Guinea National Department of Health with funding support from the World Bank Pacific.🌐

🩻Through the COVID-19 Response Project, the Papua New Guinea National Department of Health procured 28 GeneXpert machines (10-colour), 10 Tru Net instruments, and 35,000 cartridges, which are being distributed to PHAs through the Central Public Health Laboratory (CPHL).🧪

02/09/2025

🎉Congratulations, Dr. Ako Yap, on your reapointment to the position of CEO, East New Britain Provincial Health Authority (ENBPHA) up to 24th November, 2028!

🩺We look forward to working together with you and your management and program teams to deliver on improving some of the national health indicators in .

Impact Health PNG Project also congratulates you and your team for successfully conducting your Quarter 2 & 3 Review in Palmalmal, Pomio District - the first to be held in a district, for ENBPHA.

Congratulations again Dr. Yap!