CDI FM - FM 90.9 - Samberigi

CDI Foundation is a non-profit Trust Fund existing under the laws of Papua New Guinea representing an emerging concept for addressing social change and development. It is primarily supported by corporations in the petroleum industry to build the capacity of rural communities in the provinces which these companies have invested ... See more to address social needs of these communities. CDI stands for Community Development Initiatives. The CDI Foundation builds upon community development initiatives originally carried out by a consortium of oil companies in the Southern Highlands and Gulf Provinces of PNG since construction of the oilfield and pipeline facilities commenced there in 1990. After ten years of lessons learned, the oil companies had identified a number of limitations to their efforts in implementing these initiatives and determined that supporting a separate, sustainable NGO would be a more effective means of facilitating development in the area. The CDI Foundation Trust Fund was established by the oil companies in 2001 as an independent, non-government organisation (NGO) to generate support for the communities that would build capacity and generate sustainable benefits beyond the life of oil and gas production in the area. People and programs were transferred from Chevron Niugini, then acting as Operator of the oilfields into the newly formed Foundation and supplemented with new staff recruited with experience from other NGOs in Papua New Guinea. CDI set about trying to establish a hybrid organisational culture of its own, attempting to draw the best elements from both the private sector and the non-profit sector

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