We are excited to report that Australia’s Minister for Foreign Affairs Julie Bishop has announced $3 million of funding over three years from the Australian aid program to establish the Papua New Guinea Family and Sexual Violence Case Management Centre (CMC), based in Lae.
Ashlee Betteridge from the Development Policy Centre spoke with Daisy Plana (pictured left), the Senior Social Worker and CEO of the PNG Family and Sexual Violence Case Management Centre in Lae, about the importance of case … Read more
Papua New Guinea (PNG) has epidemic levels of family and sexual violence (FSV) directed against women and children. A case management centre (CMC) will promote individual case management and inter-sectoral coordination to better assist survivors to access services, support and justice.
Kamalini Lokuge, National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health, ANU, discussed integrated support for survivors of gender-based violence and what is needed as part of the gender-based violence panel at the 2013 PNG Update. This presentation … Read more
PNG has extreme levels of family and sexual violence (FSV) directed against women and children. Few survivors receive proper medical care. Even fewer receive the counselling, support and intervention they need to obtain protection, let alone justice.
Dr Kamalini Lokuge has been interviewed by Sophia Callander for the spring edition of the ANU Reporter on the the family and sexual violence Case Management Centre (CMC) in Lae, PNG.
We’ve compiled a list of resources for those who are interested in learning more about the issue of family and sexual violence (FSV) in PNG.
Watch a video of Ume Wainetti’s public lecture at ANU’s Development Policy Centre in May, titled ‘Combatting family and sexual violence in PNG: What has been achieved and what is needed?’.
Lae, PNG’s second largest city, is the site of the Case Management Centre. It is a very promising location in PNG to begin an effort to address the gaps in services for survivors of family and sexual violence.
The goals, objectives and key activity areas of the Lae CMC.
