Author: Gerard Poigeno
AIT Library Call Number: AIT Thesis no. HS-89-34
Year: 1989
Academic Program: Human Settlement (HS)
Type: Thesis (M.Eng.) – Asian Institute of Technology, 1982
Examination Committee: Hans Detlef Kammeier (Chairperson); Shlomo Angel, Raymon W. Archer (Examination Committee Members)
Abstract: The promotion of growth and development of smaller district towns has been considered one of the policy aims in trying to counteract Papua New Guinea’s unbalanced growth. The roles of these towns are vital as they should provide the immediate needs and services to their surrounding hinterland and therefor establish strong ties. But the main problems seen today of the smaller district towns are, that their present locations lack accessibility in relation to the people within their vicinity, and that the links between these small centres and the rural people are very weak. In reflection to this, this study on the case of kupiano, and administrative centre, was conducted to determine its development potentials and constraints as a rural growth centre, and its present roles and influences leading into the future development of the surrounding areas. And thus, it was found that the main attracting services establishing outstanding links with the hinterland population to this town were the Vegetable Market, the rural Health Centre, and the High School. The most active service provided to the people was the agricultural extension services linking the surroundings to the town enabled the people to travel easily to this centre, while those areas with poor accessibility both ways were otherwise difficult to reach. Some of the lessons to be learnt from this study may help pave the way into guidelines to rural growth centre planning in Papua New Guinea and perhaps be interrelated with the policy considerations of the country’s development aims. Within the nations of the Third World the struggle for rural development has to take many different forms. We all start from different power and economic bases, and there is no universally applicable policy blueprint which we can use. But by the different routes appropriate to our starting point and our cultural heritage, we each have to create … conditions (for rural development. Julius K. Nyerere
Scholarship Donor(s): Canadian International Development Agency
Note: A thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Engineering
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