TABLE 1.

Partner Responsibilities in the Public-Private Partnership to Improve Primary Health Care, Western Province, Papua New Guinea

Partner OrganizationPrimary Responsibilities
Ok Tedi Mining Limited
  • Funding

  • Overall strategic direction of program

Abt Associates
  • Manage the daily program implementation

  • Convene partnership meetings

  • Communicate and collaborate with other partners

  • Identify areas of need within catchment services and populations and engage in collaborative decision-making about potential responses

  • Employ health workers to work with local health services

  • Report on partnership funding and achievements

Western Province administration (government)
  • Provide strategic direction for the province through annual plans and other strategies and plans

  • Actively participate in partnership activities and governance

  • Communicate and collaborate with other partners

  • Identify areas of need within catchment services and populations and engage in collaborative decision-making about potential responses

District health services (government)
  • Actively participate in partnership activities and governance

  • Communicate and collaborate with other partners

  • Identify areas of need within catchment services and populations and engage in collaborative decision-making about potential responses

Local faith-based health services