Papua New Guinea - IFC

Target 2.5 Reduced harassment of female informal sector traders
Measured by: newspaper and media Reports.
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Activities • Work with Informal Sector Technical Working Group to contribute to development of PNG policy on
informal sector, including:
a) Proposal for a market based solution, providing more legitimate market space for small vendors.
b) review of Informal Sector Development and Control Act with transparent rights and
responsibilities for market vendors operating in legitimate space, with less emphasis on control.
c) review NCDC’s policy on betel nut selling to explore ways to enable it to be a legitimate business
while balancing health and public order concerns.
Access to Justice, the Courts, and Alternative Dispute Resolution
The Investment Climate Gender Consultant’s role will undertake the activities listed below to achieve targets 3.1–3.3.
Target 3.1 20 percent of court-referred mediation users are women and 80 percent of female users are satisfied
with court-referred mediation service
Measured by: Mediation user statistics and perception surveys.
Activities • Develop and promulgate simple contract for use in common commercial transactions for women
and provide training on contract law.
• Ensure gender is mainstreamed in ADR reform process as per Table 5.2 in Chapter 5.
This includes mainstreaming gender into the Mediation Rules.
• Undertake outreach to inform business women of availability and appropriateness of
court-referred mediation.
Target 3.2 At least 20 percent accredited mediators are women
Measured by: accreditation records
Activities • Train and accredit female mediators.