UDTR — Radar mondial des droits de la Nature

Issues of governance in Papua New Guinea: building roads and bridges

Identification

Clé publique

doi:10.25911/5f20026e0da06

Auteurs

Hughes, Philip

Année déclarée

2000

Langue déclarée

en

Type source

report

Première détection

2026-11-09T19:04:47.697641+00:00

Dernière observation des métadonnées

2026-11-09T19:04:47.697641+00:00

Dernière vérification HTTP

Non effectuée

Résumé documentaire — langue originale

This paper draws on the author’s recent experiences as Environmental and Social Specialist on an ADB road upgrading and maintenance project in four provinces along the Highlands Highway, as well as reports on numerous recent and ongoing road projects in several parts of the country. The emphasis is on the Highlands region, but all the evidence indicates that the issues canvassed here apply throughout Papua New Guinea. By and large villagers, townspeople, businessmen, bureaucrats and politicians throughout Papua New Guinea are keen to see new roads built and existing roads improved, or at least maintained properly. Despite this enthusiasm for roads, for a host of reasons broached in this paper it is becoming increasingly difficult to implement road and bridge construction and improvement works throughout the country. The issues are broadly those of governance, which, following UNDP (1997) I take to mean: ‘the exercise of political, economic and administrative authority to manage a nation’s affairs. It is the complex mechanisms, processes and institutions through which citizens and groups articulate their interests, exercise their legal rights and obligations and mediate their differences’. In the case of roads, the current situation is far from one of ‘good governance’, as the ability of the state to exercise its functions of facilitating road development fairly and effectively has been severely compromised in recent years. At the same time, and partly as a response to the ‘power vacuum’ left by the state, the citizens (in this case the traditional owners of the lands on which the roads and bridges are built) are becoming evermore forceful in asserting their rights with respect to land acquisition and compensation. The result of the burgeoning problems associated with these land acquisition and compensation issues is that road and bridge projects are suffering longer delays and increased costs.

Identifiants

OPENALEX

W1173685326

DOI

10.25911/5f20026e0da06

HANDLE

1885/40877

Repères documentaires

Famille documentaire

Rapport — provenance institutionnelle à préciser

Types déclarés par les sources

report

Les mentions d’entités ne constituent pas une preuve de reconnaissance juridique. La juridiction étudiée est distincte du pays d’affiliation des auteurs.

Sources

OpenAlex · Document 1 · Document 2 · Document 3

• DOI · https://doi.org/10.25911/5f20026e0da06
• Handle · https://hdl.handle.net/1885/40877
• OpenAlex · https://openalex.org/W1173685326

Relations bibliographiques documentées

Références et liens déclarés par les sources ; ils ne constituent pas une preuve juridique ni une qualification UGLC. Affichage limité à 20 références sortantes.

• openalex:w358034298 · CITES

0 références entrantes au sein du corpus détecté

Statut documentaire

Pertinence à examiner

Bibliothèque

Cette identité n’est pas encore intégrée à la Bibliothèque juridique.