Regional Programme for Food Security (RPFS)Support to the Regional Programme for Food Security in the Pacific Island Countries
2003 - 2006 The project, funded through the Fund for Food Security and Food Safety (TFFS), Italian contribution, will fund an important “time slice” of a wider Regional Programme for Food Security (RPFS) and act as a catalyst for mobilising further financing and donor support for the wider programme.
The importance of a regional perspective and particular problems faced by small island economies also underpins the main rationale for adopting a regional approach to food security, which aims to address common problems such as (i) low productivity (subsistence) agriculture; (ii) critical gaps in technology transfer and adoption of modern techniques and inputs; (iii) poor market integration of producers and consumers; (iv) decline in traditional export earnings; (v) low HR development and institutional capacity in research, extension, policy and trade, and (vi) low awareness of WTO related issues and protocols.
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Support to RPFS in the Pacific Islands GTFS/RAS/198/ITA 1st Meeting of the Regional Project Steering Committee (RPSC) June 10th-11th 2004, SAPA Discussion Record The meeting was officially opened by Dr. Vili Fuavao, SRR, Chairman, who welcomed and introduced the participants. He thanked the participants for their commitment by their resence in the first meeting of the Regional Project Steering Committee (RPSC). He reminded the meeting of the generous support by the Government of Italy to the FAO Fund for Food Security and Food Safety (TFFS) which is supporting the RPFS for the Pacific Island Countries (PICs). He referred to the meeting objectives in particular the role of the RPSC and noted the commitments of SAPA and RAPP in providing the technical backstopping support to the project thus ensuring its immediate implementation.
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NINTH ROUND TABLE MEETING FOR PACIFIC ISLAND COUNTRIES ON WTO AND REGIONAL TRADE AGREEMENTS AND PROVISIONS
TENTH FAO ROUND TABLE MEETING FOR PACIFIC ISLAND COUNTRIES ON WTO AND REGIONAL TRADE AGREEMENTS AND PROVISIONS
Tri-Partite Review Meeting 21-22 April 2008
Apia, Samoa Summary Record of Discussions The Tri Partite Review meeting for the regional project: GTFS/RAS/198/ITA: Support to the Regional Programme for Food Security (RPFS) in the Pacific was held in Apia, Samoa, 21-22 April 2008. The review was attended by National Project Coordinators from Cook Islands, Federated States of Micronesia, Fiji, Kiribati, Marshall Islands, Nauru, Niue, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tonga, Tuvalu and Vanuatu; the representative from the Government of Italy, the representative of the Council for Regional Organization (CROP), the University of the South Pacific (USP), United Nations Education Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) the International Fund for Agriculture Development (IFAD) and FAO.
view Full Report | Food Security and Sustainable Livelihoods in the Pacific Island Countries (FSSLP) Mapping Study Update for 2009
Start-up TCP-FSSLP 2009 Poly - Micronesia The considerable food price rise and financial crises and already felt climate change effects on Pacific Island Countries (PICs) have highlighted food security and livelihoods vulnerability and fragility in the region. With many mainly very small islands dispersed in a vast ocean, the challenges for individual countries to address their common but also diverse problems, is enormous. PICs have various policies and initiatives in relating to agriculture, NRM and nutrition. However there are considerable challenges to bring them together into concerted and practical food security focused program and projects. Not least of these is the need for taking an inter-sectoral approach, which in turn requires multiple stakeholders processes, not just working strictly within an agriculture sphere.
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Start-up TCP-FSSLP 2009 Melanesia The considerable food price rise and financial crises and already felt climate change effects on Pacific Island Countries (PICs) have highlighted food security and livelihoods vulnerability and fragility in the region. With many mainly very small islands dispersed in a vast ocean, the challenges for individual countries to address their common but also diverse problems, is enormous. PICs have various policies and initiatives in relating to agriculture, NRM and nutrition. However there are considerable challenges to bring them together into concerted and practical food security focused program and projects. Not least of these is the need for taking an inter-sectoral approach, which in turn requires multiple stakeholders processes, not just working strictly within an agriculture sphere.
view Full Report Development Partners Mapping Study, 2008 Executive Summary
There are currently many bilateral and multilateral development partners who provide substantial assistance to the Pacific Island Countries (PICs), and in order that this assistance translates into better sustainable development gains priority must be given to aid coordination and harmonization of support across development agencies.
In the context of FAO programming assistance to the Pacific region (including the formulation of the expansion phase of the regional programme for food security1) this mapping exercise was undertaken to detail and analyse current and planned activities of key development partners and regional agencies in the broader agriculture sector. The overall objective of the study is to enhance harmonization and complementarity of development resources based on respective comparative advantages.
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Development Partners Mapping Study, May 2008 Incorporatiing 2009 Update by Alise Stunnenberg.
Introduction
In July 2007 Pacific Island Countries (PICs) and their development partners signed the Pacific Aid Effectiveness Principles, which call for strengthened aid management and coordination mechanisms at the national and regional level. CROP agencies and development partners have also agreed, under the Pacific Plan, to better coordinate their assistance to member countries and regional services that complement national efforts.
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