Impact Health PNG Project

24/12/2025

📍Wishing our families, friends, colleagues & partners, Merry Christmas🎄& Happy New Year! HAPPY HOLIDAYS!👋🙂

21/12/2025

East Sepik PHA plans major activities using IMPACT Health disbursement funds in 2026

The East Sepik Provincial Health Authority-ESPHA is planning major health service delivery improvement interventions using performance funds it received from the Papua New Guinea National Department of Health (NDoH) through the World Bank Pacific-financed ‘Improving Access to Health Services in PNG: Financing the Frontlines (IMPACT Health) Project’.

The Impact Health PNG Project management team met with members of the East Sepik PHA, including CEO Mathew Kaluvia, during an early December visit to the province.

Mr. Kaluvia acknowledged the support of partners, including the Catholic Church Health Services PNG, Christian Health Services Papua New Guinea, Australian Government Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, the Papua New Guinea National Department of Health and World Bank Pacific through the Impact Health PNG Project, and other partners who have and who continue to support East Sepik deliver much needed health services and improving health indicators in the province.

“We have a good team in East Sepik PHA – from the Board to the SEM and to our SMOs – we are working really hard to achieve and improve on our key indicators," said Kaluvia.

"We are also coming up with strategies on how to improve in certain areas.

“We are working towards strengthening our health system through partnerships. We fund immunization programs, transportation of medical supplies, antenaetal care visits – all of these are very important indicators."

While acknowledging some of the geographical challenges that hinder health service delivery in the province, Mr. Kaluvia said one of their strategies to minimize staff complacency is moving district health managers around.

“At the end of the day, we want to acknowledge our hardworking staff. We presented certificates and recognitions to appreciate their hard work.

"It is very challenging for us when it comes to trying to reach those areas, especially waterways, island and maritime villages - it's very challenging for our staff when they are carrying boxes of vaccines, and have to walk through muddy waters when the tide is low for instance.

“I would like to thank my team. We are working really, really hard. We are committed. And as such, we will see this trend improve from previous years going forward,” said CEO Kaluvia.

The Impact Health PNG Project comprises four components including Component 2 – Disbursement Linked Indicators (DLIs).

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

A DLI approach changes the focus from ‘payment before work’ to ‘payment after work’ - a method of payment against delivery of results.

Working with the project provinces of New Britain, , East Sepik Provincial Health Authority-ESPHA and Simbu Provincial Health Authority, the Impact Health PNG Project aims to strengthen Primary Health Care in rural and remote communities, and provide tools and financing to strengthen service delivery and capacity of these PHAs.

The Project aims to address bottlenecks of health financing in the project provinces as well as address challenges in Governance and on Health Systems.

03/12/2025

✍️Health Facilty Audit (HFA) exercise at Lawes Road Clinic half-way through a one-week training with World Bank Pacific-financed Impact Health PNG Project PHA representatives from , , East Sepik Provincial Health Authority-ESPHA and Simbu Provincial Health Authority facilitated by in partnership with Health Service Standards & Compliance - Health Facilities Branch. More updates on this exercise & training later. 🎯

27/11/2025

🩺Health service delivery can be challenging at times

📌Crossing the Melkoi River in Pomio District, , to deliver , malaria bed nets, health registration & treatment books, among other health supplies for Uvol Health
Centre in August 2025 was challenging. ⚖️

✅Uvol Health Centre is at least a four (4) hour drive from Pomio District headquarters. On a good day, this Catholic Church Health Services PNG-run Level 3 health facility serves over 13,000 rural people of can also be reached by boat.

✅The ‘baby bundle’ program was initiated by the East New Britain Provincial Health Authority (ENBPHA) to encourage mothers to go for four (4) or more Antenatal Care Visits, to have Supervised Delivery at health facilities and also to improve Infant & Newborn Care. ☂️

✅Using Disbursement Linked Indicator (DLI) funds recieved from the Papua New Guinea National Department of Health through the World Bank Pacific-financed Impact Health PNG Project, ENBPHA procured & supplied baby bundles to all health facilities in the province. 📍

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.

Read More: https://tvwan.com.pg/news/6752



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!

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!