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Papua New Guinea and FAO
Partnering for sustainable agricultural development and food security
The 40-year partnership between Papua New Guinea and FAO was strengthened recently with the opening of a country
office in 2013. FAO assistance has aimed at achieving food security through environmentally sustainable local food
production. Recent interventions have focused on strengthening policy and planning, including the development of a
National Agriculture Development Plan. As a small island developing state (SIDS), adaptation to climate change and disaster
risk management are important features of cooperation.
The FAO Country Programming Framework (CPF) for
Papua New Guinea (2015-2017) is to centre on five
priority areas:
Capacity in data collection, management and
analysis
Policy, legal, regulatory and strategic
frameworks for sustainable agriculture,
forestry and fisheries development
Capacity for agricultural products to meet
market standards and be competitive on
target markets
Sustainable management of forests and trees
Sustainable and efficient fisheries
management and practices
Jointly prepared with the Government and other
development partners, the CPF reflects relevant
priorities in key national development strategies
and goals. Priority areas are also in line with the UN
Development Assistance Framework (UNDAF) for the
country.
Supporting sustainable fisheries
management
Papua New Guinea has an extensive and valuable fisheries
sector with largely unpolluted coastal waters, high-elevation
lakes and streams, and more than 200 miles of declared
fishing zone. About 18 percent of the world’s total tuna stock
is located in Papua New Guinea’s Exclusive Economic Zone
(EEZ).
In partnership with the National Fisheries Authority and
provincial authorities, FAO implemented a Technical
Cooperation Programme (TCP) project for the development
of a community-based aquaculture farm. Located in the
province of Manus, the project helped selected communities
to develop commercially viable and environmentally friendly
mullet fish farming systems.
FAO is also implementing a TCP project to assist the National
Fisheries Authority in minimizing opportunities for illegal,
unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing in Papua New
Guinea.
Current regional fisheries projects that the country is involved
in include: an intervention funded by the Global Environment
Facility (GEF) for the development of fisheries strategies to
address bycatch management; and a project to address the
impacts of climate change, such as a rise in sea level, on
maritime jurisdictional claims for fisheries management.
These interventions have helped FAO to strengthen relations
with the National Fisheries Authority and other key players
involved in the sustainable management of Papua New
Guinea’s fisheries sector.
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Matching FAO’s expertise to Papua New
Guinea’s development priorities
Contacts
Programme Officer to Papua New Guinea
UN House, Level 14, Deloitte Tower Douglas Street
Port Moresby
Tel: +675 3212877
E-mail: [email protected]; [email protected]
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Ken Shimizu
Ensuring food security through
policy support
FAO provided technical assistance to develop the 20072016 National Agriculture Development Plan (NADP), a
comprehensive and strategic planning instrument integrating
commodity and provincial plans.
In partnership with the Department of Agriculture and
Livestock and other government agencies, FAO has also
undertaken activities to renew Papua New Guinea’s National
Food Security Policy for the next ten years. The process
involved multi-stakeholder consultations to formulate the
new policy and ensure relevant inputs from the competent
government agencies. Further activities involved the
strengthening of coordination and linkages with other
relevant policy processes under way in the country. A new
national food security policy framework for the period 201625 has been drafted as a result of this process.
As a complement to this policy project, FAO is partnering
with the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and the
Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR).
With funding from the UN Delivering Results Together Fund,
this collaborative effort entails the implementation of a joint
programme to improve policy responses necessary for fulfilling
the right to adequate nutrition in the country.
Developing effective systems for
sustainable forest management
Papua New Guinea is host to a remarkably diverse number of
species and ecosystems, comprising the third largest tropical
rainforest estate in the world. The majority of the population
lives in traditional societies which are heavily dependent
on forest resources as a source of nutrition, medicine and
livelihoods.
Increasingly, the sustainable capacity of these forests has
come under threat, largely owing to deforestation, conversion
and logging-related degradation.
In efforts to improve forest harvesting practices and limit
forest degradation, FAO has partnered with the National
Forestry Authority to provide technical support for the revision
and upgrading of the Logging Code of Practice (LCOP),
Planning, Monitoring and Control (PMC) procedures, training
programmes and a code implementation system.
In addition, FAO is providing technical assistance to the Forest
Authority and the Office for Climate Change and Development
through the UN-REDD Programme (the United Nations
Programme on Reducing Emissions from Deforestation
and Forest Degradation). Activities are designed to support
readiness actions for REDD+ under the Climate Change
Convention. The main objective is establish the National
Forestry Monitoring System in the country. A Satellite Land
Monitoring System laboratory was developed at the Office for
Climate Change and Development, and relevant operators
have been trained. Assessment tools were introduced to
enhance the capacity of the Forest Authority to conduct
annual national forest monitoring, and a web portal was
developed to provide REDD+ information to the public.
FAO has also been
supporting the National
Forestry Authority in
preparing the country’s first
Multi-purpose National
Forest Inventory to estimate
greenhouse gas emissions
in Land Use and Land Use
Change and Forestry.
“Small island developing
states face considerable
challenges, but they also
have great potential.”
José Graziano da Silva
FAO Director-General
Outstanding achievements in remote sensing
assessment
Under the first phase of the inventory, a major achievement
was the completion of the remote sensing-based national
forest assessment using FAO’s Collect Earth GIS tool. This
is an outstanding achievement, considering that such an
assessment had not been conducted since 1995. Under the
second phase, forests were stratified and plots to be surveyed
have been selected and mapped. Various trainings on
inventory methodology, data analysis, biodiversity assessment,
plant species identification, ornithology and soil survey have
already been conducted, and the field inventory exercise has
commenced.
Support to drought recovery
In response to the El Nino-induced drought and frost which
negatively affected the agriculture sector in 2015, FAO is
helping the Department of Agriculture and Livestock to
address the drought-related effects. Assistance includes
sectoral coordination on drought relief and mitigation and
agricultural recovery activities. In partnership with the World
Food Programme, a food security cluster has been established
in Papua New Guinea for the first time.
Country gender assessment
FAO is also supporting the Government of Papua New
Guinea to conduct a country gender assessment and gender
analysis of the national agriculture and rural development
sector. The assessment is expected to deliver a set of policy
recommendations on how to improve gender equality
promotion and its mainstreaming into agriculture and rural
development.
Project activities have been initiated under the Global Strategy
to Improve Agricultural and Rural Statistics. The assessment
and strategic plan to be produced as a result of project
activities will identify specific country-level interventions
required to strengthen Papua New Guinea’s agricultural
statistical capacity.
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Improving agricultural statistical capacity