Press Statement

With the official launch of the Transparency International 2021 Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) report this afternoon, the new data has now indicated a minor improvement in PNG’s score, from previous years. With a score of 31 out of 100 and a ranking of 124 out of 180 countries surveyed this year, PNG’s score has revealed a 4-point increase from last year. Although coming in at 14 points below the Asia Pacific Average of 45, and 12 points below the global average of 43, the results also indicate that there is still a lot of work to be done in combatting corrupt individuals, networks and systems in the country.

Transparency International Papua New Guinea (TIPNG) is calling on the Government to ensure lessons learnt from multiple Parliamentary Public Accounts Committee Public Hearings dating back to 2014, on the poor performance by contractors of medical supplies, are not ignored for political convenience.

In what has now been one of the most ambitious public opinion surveys of corruption in the Pacific, the official launching of the first ever Pacific component of the Transparency International Global Corruption Barometer (GCB), has now underscored a silver lining, in what is an otherwise burgeoning trend of corruption across the Pacific.

With the official closing of Transparency International PNG (TIPNG) Bougainville Active Civic Engagement (ACE) program last Friday, the participation of five young men and women from the notorious Konnou “no-go-zone,” in South Bougainville has now yielded a hallmark of unity for the Autonomous Region of Bougainville (AROB). 48 participants representing 17 youth associations and three

Tuesday 28th September 2021 marks the International Day for Universal Access to Information as declared at the global level by the United Nations (UN) in October 2019 recognising the significance of the rights of citizens to access to information. On the occasion of this important day, “TIPNG welcomes the announcement at the Open Government Partnership