USP Project management course designed to address and respond to climate change in the Pacific

Extracted from THE NATIONAL | edited 

PAPUA New Guinea’s project management course is designed to train people to be ready to address and respond to the impacts of climate change.

“This is a professional course that will bring PNG to the next level by providing the ideas, the practical tools and proven techniques to move forward the international projects to improve the environment here,” according to US Ambassador Catherine Ebert-Gray at the launching.
“The course has a reputation for delivering climate change services within cost schedule and resource constraints and will train participants to manage funds wisely to drive projects forward.”

Climate Change and Development Authority managing director Ruel Yamuna said: “This ready training course on project management capacity will indeed ensure efficient management of resources, not only for the government but for private sectors and civil society organisations.

“Not only it is relevant today, this is an activity that is good and practical that the Green Growth Academy will need to look into and incorporate into its programmes in the future. I say this because it addresses the issue of sustainability.

“I see this training programme support a long-term impact of the climate ready projects and we look forward to the lessons from this particular course.”

This is the eighth course organised by USAid through its ready project, in partnership with the University of the South Pacific’s through technical and further education (TAFE programme.)

About 60 people, including members of government, the private sector, and non-governmental organisations, would attend the course in two groups.

The first session was held last week and the second will continue this week.