Pilot year
Program Manager, Finance & Administration Manager and Facility Coordinator in post; new OCA policies and systems tested on the ground.
Budget lines (1)
- 4.4.5 Administration and staffing — pilot year (part)PGK 445,000

An interactive projection of the 2026–2030 Strategic Plan: drag the slider or press play, and watch funding turn into protection on the real terrain of Mt Karimui.
per hectare for the whole 2026–2030 plan
per hectare per year
of community-consented forest by 2030, for $2.29M in total
This is the cost of the entire Strategic Plan — gazettal, rangers, the organisation, livelihoods and community development — divided by the 302,000-hectare target. It is not the cost of protection alone.
Before KCRMPI can carry a conservation area, it needs the people and systems to run one. The pilot year puts core staff in place and tests the organisation's new policies and systems on the ground in Karimui.
A Program Manager, a Finance & Administration Manager and a Facility Coordinator — the staff the Community Development Agency recommended.
Basic subsistence so the Director can focus on strategy, partnerships and fundraising.
The new OCA tools, policies, standard operating procedures and HR manual tested in daily operations.
Board training, an audit of accounts and the reporting donors need.
Each package is a costed part of the Strategic Plan with a concrete result. Fund one on its own, or several together — and see exactly what it changes on the mountain.
Program Manager, Finance & Administration Manager and Facility Coordinator in post; new OCA policies and systems tested on the ground.
Submissions from the LLG Council to the Governor-General, ending in declaration of the Conservation Area over the 168,000 hectares under consent.
EIA, environmental and social studies across the proposed area.
Customary land investigated, clan histories recorded, Incorporated Land Groups formed and internal and external boundaries mapped.
Community entry and awareness in the unsigned wards, extending FPIC toward the 302,000-hectare target (Ward 27 excluded).
Staffing, Board, audit and running costs that keep the organisation working through the Plan.
CEPA-endorsed management plan, Conservation Area rules, a ranger station, and rangers recruited and trained.
Carbon biomass and ecosystem surveys — the basis for the REDD+ feasibility study.
Coffee, honey, fish, poultry, piggery and nurseries through the Farmers' Cooperative — toward 5,000+ households with improved livelihoods.
A research station on the mountain and two project vehicles for field operations.
Water, solar, footbridges, housing kits, education support and three Community Resource Centres — toward improved services in all wards.
Elevation data: Terrain Tiles on AWS Open Data (SRTM / Mapzen), used under their open terms.

Whether it is the pilot year or a single package — a ranger station, a Community Resource Centre, the gazettal pathway — every contribution maps to a line in the Plan.