Authority receives report to help it perform better

The United States Agency for International Development (USAID), through its Ready project, handed over an organisational assessment report to the Climate Change and Development Authority (CCDA) in Port Moresby.
CCDA is Papua New Guinea’s apex organisation for coordinating Government’s climate-resilience efforts and the country’s national designated authority for the Green Climate Fund.
The organisational assessment, which has been conducted jointly by the CCDA and USAID Ready, identifies strengths and weaknesses in CCDA’s policies and procedures.
This is in areas that will enable it to effectively perform its functions as the national designated authority, such as project and programme development, international procurement, accounting, oversight, planning, and monitoring and evaluation processes.
The joint organisational assessment is providing CCDA with the baseline information of their capacity to take on the roles and functions of the national designated authority.
This benefits them in planning and reconfiguring their organisational structure on how they conduct their business and how they now interact with their stakeholders at every level.
It will improve their governance, programme and project approach, and their work efficiency and effectiveness. Managing-director of the CCDA, Ruel Yamuna, said last week the organisation launched the corporate plan during Apec events.
“Today, with further support from USAID through the Ready project, we completed a joint organisation assessment report of CCDA,” he said.
“This is a big milestone for us, building on a mini-assessment conducted by UNDP two years ago.
“We are very proud to partner with USAID Ready on this achievement.
“We are look forward to a continued relationship with the Ready project to implement the JOA recommendations as support to the readiness for Green Climate Fund funding.” USAID Ready has been actively working with the CCDA since 2016, to prepare an application for a K2 million Green Climate Fund readiness and preparatory support Proposal, which the Green Climate Fund approved in Dec 2017.