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Co-ordination/Co-operation
11. The PNG local and national governments, the Save
the Children Fund and various church bodies (ie the
Catholic mission, the Dutch Missionary Society (ZOA) and
the Evangelical Church) are all trying to assist. seems to be no duplication of effort, despite no regular
in-house co-ordination meetings hosted by UNHCR in
Port Moresby.
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12. The UNHCR office in Port Moresby has virtually no
contact with its counterpart office in Indonesia because
of Indonesian sensibilities. UNHCR are now negotiating
with the Indonesian Government, however, to allow UNHCR
to have a presence on the Irian Jaya side of the border in the hope that if repatriation is supervised and guaranteed by UNHCR, most people will eventually return.
13. The UNHCR functions as part of the local UNDP
office and there is regular contact between them to
see where UNDP and other UN funds might be diverted to
help with building up the border region economically.
There is close local cooperation with the Save the
Children Fund.
Information/Disaster Preparedness
14.
UNHCR regularly visits the camps and maintains
close liaison with the PNG Government who have appointed
a superintendent to each camp from their own resources.
The Camp superintendent keeps a careful note of refugees within his jurisdiction and regularly reports changes in
numbers to Provincial Government and thence to UNHCR.
The UNHCR office is generally kept well abreast of political trends, though it is unable to forecast future
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