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FAO Supports PNG in Adoption of Innovative Methods to Survey Rural Project News: Support to Rural Entrepreneurship, June 2021 - Issue #7 Investment and Trade in Papua New Guinea (EU-STREIT) ©FAO Dr Rabi Rasaily, FAO Senior Agricultural Officer, EU-funded STREIT Programme. UNJP/PNG/010/EC In this issue: FAO Supports PNG in Adoption • FAO supports PNG to adopts innovative survey methods of of Innovative Methods to agricultural activities Survey Rural Communities • EU supports the UN system to promote sustainable agri-rural development in PNG • FAO Gender Team engages with he EU-funded STREIT Programme monitoring of the survey progress is key local stakeholders on gender T supported with technical expertise possible.” mainstreaming within the EU- lent by FAO, assists and capacitates “One important innovation is that funded STREIT Programme the PNG’s National Agricultural CAPI uses Global Positioning System to Research Institute (NARI) to designs • UN FAO partners with women and capture the location of the households and implements survey using and field plots. This means that we can youth’s Group in East Sepik to roll Computer Assisted Personal out cocoa work link the data collected to a Interviewing (CAPI) in the greater Geographical Information System as • EU-STREIT joins leading women Sepik Region. part of the programme’s overall and youth’s group to distribute During the recently conducted training monitoring and evaluation system,” cocoa seedlings to farmers for 30 enumerators in Wewak, said Thomas Muenzel, FAO Senior Valentine Nchinda, FAO International Investment Support Officer who • EU-STREIT’s Programme Steering Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist contributed to the design of the Committee convened online to of the programme highlighted the survey. review Inception Phase of the Programme benefits of CAPI, stressing that “it The CAPI capacity developed in the saves a lot of time and provides course of the baseline survey by NARI • Mainstreaming gender immediate access to the data for and partners will be very useful, not perspectives into agri-food Value analysis and thereby substantially only during the programme chains under EU-STREIT reduces survey costs.” implementation, when more specific • 100 farmers from 20 villages As per Marjorie Andrew, NARI surveys will be conducted on attend first formal ‘vanilla Program Director and the Survey agriculture and fisheries in East and cultivation, husbandry and Coordinator, “Compared to paper- West Sepik, but also will be useful for processing training’ under EU- based survey, the data accuracy is national institutions well beyond EU- STREIT actually much improved as CAPI allows STREIT, in support of Government’s for validations during the interview. At efforts to achieve the Sustainable the same time, almost real-time Development Goals. © FAO EU Supports the UN System to Promote Sustainable Agri-rural Development in PNG hanks to the generous financial T support provided by the EU, FAO as the lead UN agency in promoting sustainable agri-rural development across the world, steers the implementation of a major rural development programme in Papua New Guinea to support rural entrepreneurship, investment, and trade (EU-STREIT) in two East and West Sepik provinces. Focused on increasing sustainable and inclusive economic development of rural areas in the northwestern part of the Country, this EU-funded programme aims to increase the economic returns and opportunities from three value chains of cocoa, vanilla and fishery in the region. ©FAO Developed under the umbrella of the 11th European Development Fund, Local farmers in the East Sepik Province participate in FAO EU-STREIT training on low-cost cocoa clone propagation this FAO-led programme works on and budding. strengthening and improving the • Increasing production of, and access Besides, 158 lead farmers (45 female) efficiency of value chain enablers to renewable energy systems; received Training of Trainers (ToT) on factors, including the business cocoa budding, and 1 022 farmers environment and supporting • Improving climate-proof rural transport infrastructure. were trained on coco and vanilla sustainable, climate-proof transport technologies, and improved and energy infrastructure Despite the obstacles created by the production, management and development in the Sepik Region, with COVID-19 pandemic, since the processing practices. focuses on the following areas: commencement of this major venture in late 2019, FAO together with the All these achievements delivered by • Increasing sustainable production partner UN agencies including the FAO and the UN systemwide and inclusiveness of the cocoa value International Labour Organization, partnership in the Sepik Region was chain; International Telecommunication made possible thanks to the EU • Increasing sustainable production Union, United Nations Capital financial contribution that aimed at and inclusiveness of the vanilla value Development Fund and United fostering agricultural production and chain; Nations Development Programme, rural development in the Country. • Increasing sustainable production successfully established the The support provided by the EU and inclusiveness of fishery value programme in the provinces and the enables the UN to tirelessly directs its chain (coastal, riverine and programme succeeded in delivery key efforts to make sure that the farming- aquaculture); activities and benefit to local dependent rural populations benefit beneficiaries in target areas directly. • Establishing conducive policy and from shared prosperity and contribute regulatory environment for As of 31 December 2020, 9 729 to growth and development. It also sustainable rural agripreneurs and households (estimated 48 645 people) supports the Country to improve its MSMEs established; directly benefitted from Cocoa performance in managing activities, including the distribution of environmental resources and risks • Strengthening value chain support 37 205 cocoa clone seedlings to emanating from climate change and services and resilient to climate establish cocoa budwood gardens. disasters. change impacts; © FAO 2 FAO Gender Team Engages with Key Local Stakeholders on Gender Mainstreaming within the EU-funded STREIT Programme ncouraging youth and recognizing “These trainers who will henceforth Council of Women, Youth and Persons E the vital role of women in the be called coaches, can be anyone that with Disabilities (PWDs) from Kalang. development of the Cocoa, Vanilla and lives in the community such as, The same is being arranged for West Fisheries value chains was the main farmers, teachers, or just any actor Sepik Province. focus of a meeting between Support to within the value chain who will “Gender and youth inclusion is a key Rural Entrepreneurship, Investment remain in the community to continue part of the EU-funded STREIT and Trade in Papua New Guinea (EU- to provide them support after the programme with women playing a key STREIT) and East Sepik provincial programme ends,” explained EU- role in the targeted value chains. EU- administration and government line STREIT International Gender and STREIT and the EU-funded SPOTLIGHT agencies in Wewak on 26 January Youth Inclusion Specialist Ms. Patu programme on Gender Based Violence 2021. Shang. will be coordinating closely in the The purpose of the meeting was to seek During the meeting, the FAO Gender Sepiks” advised Mr. Anthony Bennett, understanding and collaboration in the and Youth Inclusion Strategy was FAO Lead Technical Officer of the mainstreaming of gender and youth reviewed and discussed by the programme. inclusion under the three value chains participants. The local agent for EU-funded STREIT of cocoa, vanilla and fisheries being EU-STREIT used the opportunity to Programme, Dr. Deane Woruba, in his supported by the EU-funded STREIT also create a linkage with the remarks explained that EU-STREIT aims Programme. provincial administration. The to help rural people move away from This collaboration will take place meeting was co-chaired by EU-STREIT subsistence to commercial farming through a new Gender Mainstreaming and the provincial administration and agriculture, especially now that cash and Technical Working Group was also attended by line ministries/ crops such as vanilla and cocoa are (GMTWG) that will mainly partners and NGOs like East Sepik being targeted for improvement. communicate, coordinate and ensure collaboration among stakeholders including NGO’s, donors, community EU-STREIT’s major activities on Gender and Youth Inclusion leaders and provincial administration from line ministries and other UN • Constant trainings and workshops on raising of awareness among agencies such as UN women. This stakeholders, partners and beneficiaries on the important role played by collaboration is important to help all women and youth in the three value chains. implementers and stakeholders to • Conducting focus group discussions with women and men across all three understand the programme as well as value chains to identify gender-based constraints within value chains as well where women and youth can as possible approaches to remedy the constraints. participate actively and assertively under the Cocoa, Vanilla and Fisheries • Developing Programme’s Gender and Youth Inclusion Strategy based on the value chains. The group will equally consultative meetings with local stakeholders (provincial administration, line help to provide technical advice and ministry officers, NGOs and UN agencies) as well as desk review of main support to key sectors as well as documents on “Gender in Agriculture
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