ACP-EU Development Minerals Programme

Name: Leka Heve Bonoro

Title of RWP: Geological Survey Mapping 

Brief Description:

1.Create a Policy  for Department Works in line with Mining Safety Act 1992 currently now is  undergoing review.  In order for the Department to regulate all construction quarry pit materials within PNG. This will be put together from the collective ideas and collaborative teamwork by the team PNG who attended the Workshop in Suva. These activities are stipulated in the Group RWP section 5.0.

2.Updating of DoW Gravel Pit Inventory Data Base Identifying the quarry pits  along national and provincial road networks in PNG with the assistance from Bobby Yavi and the team Geological Mapping Division, MRA.  Materials Resource Studies will be conducted on every pit to determine the suitability of the quarry pits for Construction purposes.  Funding will be required for this activity  and will be sourced from UNDP  and other Developing partners (World Bank, AusAID, ADB & JICA) and Department of Works.

3.Case Study or pilot project that will be developed by selecting a potential quarry sites and develop it by adopting the Malangati Clan model in Suva that we visited.  The Development Plan to include Management Plan, before, during and after the Quarrying process and how well it will benefit the resource owners and the community leaving around the quarry sites.  This is to show case Activity I & 2 to see its workable within PNG laws, society and culture (context).  This will require a developer or investor to finance and operate the quarry.   

Workshop: Pacific Regional Training Workshop on Environment, Community, Health and Safety, Fiji, December 2015.

Full Progress Report not submitted yet.