Employment-Intensive Recovery and Reconstruction Response (E3R)

Over half a million people were affected by the 7.5 magnitude earthquake that struck the Highlands of Papua New Guinea (PNG) on 26 February (followed by strong after-shocks and a 6.7 magnitude earthquake on 8 March), causing casualties, damaging homes and key infrastructure (including airfields, bridges, community access roads, houses, power supply, telecommunications), triggering landslides, and affecting water sources. Enga, Gulf, Hela and Southern and Western Highlands’ provinces suffered damage, with Hela and Southern Highlands being the worst affected. Apart from the immediate humanitarian assistance, there is a need to provide early recovery and reconstruction support to help the affected people to restore their livelihoods. This includes short-term emergency employment support and longer-term assistance in restoring the damaged infrastructure. For the relief and reconstruction work, the Government of PNG has allocated USD 180 million. The ILO is participating in the coordination efforts led by the Government’s National Disaster Centre and has been requested by its constituents to provide technical assistance in designing and implementing employment-intensive infrastructure-based livelihood recovery activities and support the development of a longer-term employment-intensive reconstruction strategy which will also include disaster mitigation elements.

Project symbol

PNG/18/50/JPN

Admin unit

CO-Suva

Start date

15/07/2018

End date

30/11/2019

Total allocation

114281

Total expenditure

Status

Closed

114281

Development Partners

Japan, Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare

Country/Countries

Papua New Guinea

Outcomes

Outcome 5: Skills and lifelong learning to facilitate access to and transitions in the labour market