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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. 2/2016 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] ©FAO 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. ©FAO ©FAO Improving agricultural statistical capacity