This report showcases the findings of the Baseline Assessment of Resource Governance and Development Impacts (“the Baseline”) conducted for the Australia Papua New Guinea Economic Partnership (APEP).
Implemented through APEP’s Sustainable Governance of Natural Wealth Pillar, the purpose of the assessment was to understand how landowners and communities experience resource governance and development impacts in four of Papua New Guinea’s (PNG) extractives provinces: Morobe, New Ireland, Gulf, and Western Province.