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1 Fiji MOA-FAO-SPC Partnership Agreement Activity Matrix Project Evidence-Based Policy Development - Improve Project Planning, Implementation, and Policy Formulation Capability within the MOA Development of Agricultural Information for Policy Lead Partner Value Comments FAO 217,000 Ginger Industry Plan development Jun-Dec '16 FJD30000 Dalo Industry Plan development Aug-16 to Mar-17? FJD35000 Crop Industry Plan development & FJD Organic Policy Toolkit Oct-15 Dec-16 FJD Agriculture Policy Bank to Jun-17 Statistics Capacity Building / Training GIS training Livestock SubSector Strategy development Supported PIFON involvement in Fiji Seed Policy development Value Chain Development - Build Modern Agriculture as an Organised System of Producing, Processing, and Marketing Products

2 Supporting Fairtrade Business Development in Pacific Island Countries (coffee, sugar, horticulture) NZ MFAT NZ?? Dairy Project? MFAT In development Empowering rural and disadvantaged women through FAO Sept-15 village level food processing to Aug-17 MDF2 DFAT In design 300,000 *Across PNG, Fiji, Samoa, Tonga, Solomon Islands. Coordinatin gwith DFAT Agri-tourism linkages (concept phase) (Fresh produce, dairy) IFC In design PHAMA (Horticulture, Agriculture, Fisheries, Sawn Timber) DFAT (& MFAT) from 2009 *Across PNG, Solomons, Vanuatu, Fiji, Samoa and Tonga. Co funded with NZ Off-Season Vegetable Production technical exchange (PIFON)

3 Pacific Soil Learning Exchange, Taveuni (PIFON) Dalo Value Chain Training, Taveuni (PIFON) Ginger Value Chain Training (PIFON & FCLC) Food Security / Emergency Response - Improve Delivery of Agriculture Support Services Re-establishment of household food supplies in Fiji in areas most affected by TC Winston Emergency Support to Reestablish Agricultural, Fisheries & Aquatic Plant Production Post TC Winston Food and nutrition security Impact, Resilience, Sustainability, Transformation (FIRST) Programme FAO Mar-16 to Mar ,000 FAO FAO Jun-15 April- Dec '16 Jun ,580 33,185,840 *Project also includes SI & VU

4 Conservation of some of Fiji's important food crops (taro, banana, sweet potato, cassava, ginger, breadfruit, swamp taro, xanthosoma, banana) SPC CePaCT/ Jan-16 Mar-17 FJD 400,000 Ongoing CORE role of CePaCT as part of SPC's support to member countries in safeguarding important crop varieties for food security for all Strengthening the resilience of Pacific agricultural systems to climate change through enhancing access to and use of diveristy Establishing MOA Tissue culture lab and provision of technical in terms of trainings and attachments and plant tissue culture materials SPC CePaCT/ FAO Jan-15 Sep-16 SPC CePaCT/ AusAID Jan 14 - June 15 USD 276,000 Project also include other ITPGRFA Pacific countries of Kiribati, Samoa, Cook Islands, Palau and Tonga

5 Provision of tisue culture materials of new crop varieties for evaluation and food security purposes SPC CePaCT/ Dec-16 Mar-17 FJD 10,000 Enhanced fruit production and postharvest handling systems for Fiji ACIAR Jan-16 Dec-19 FJD 233,000 Upgrading and broadening the new South-Pacific International Coconut Genebank Research on breadfruit: enhancing methodologies for mass propagation of breadfruit Strengthening conservation and utilisation of plant genetic resources activities of CePaCT due to impact of tropical cyclone Winston Bioveris ty Int./ COGENT Jul-16 Jul-19 SPC CePaCT/ SPC GCDT Jan-16 Jan-17 Mar-17 FJD 30,000 Dec-18 Ongoing as part of SPC CePaCT'S CORE role in supporting the utilization of genetic resources with member countries on a needs basis ACIAR Project including Tonga and Samoa Project including Samoa and PNG Activity in collaboration with Fiji MOA and PIFON

6 Using modern biotechnologies to sustain food security in Pacific island countries FAO ITPGRFA BSF Jan-17 Dec-19 USD400,00 0 *Project covering all PICTs Capacity building and scientific empowerment on biotechnologies using nuclear science technology Technical assistance on TC Winston PDNA Process (Forestry Sector) Support Vulnerability Mapping UN IAEA Fiji Gov. WFP Jan-18 Dec-21 Tech Support Tech Support *Project covering UN IAEA member countries like in Pacific Financing - Innovative Business Arrangement in Agribusiness Technical support to individual private sector businesses to assist them raise commercial finance ADB * Across PNG, Vanuatu, Fiji, Tonga, Solomon Islands, Cook Islands Commercial agriculture financing concepts for Fiji Development Bank (Fresh produce; other horticulture; poultry; dairy) ADB In development

7 Investing in Impact in the Pacific Facility DFAT Up to $3m in grants; Leveraging at least $3m in new investment *Across all Pacific Research/Extension & Capacity Building - Improve Delivery of Agriculture Support Services Supporting FCLC farmer registration Review of Natures Way Cooperative R&E capacity building / training Development of an electronic repository of research and extension information system within MOA Invenotry of research information and best practices Establish a process of collecting, management and dissemination of research and extension information, IFAD, GFRAS & SEARCA, IFAD, GFRAS & SEARCA FJD17280 FJD8100 USD220,000 New IFAD Funding in partnership with SEARCA, AESA, APIRAS,

8 , IFAD, Mapping and assessment of GFRAS agriculture advisory services (AAS) & and individual capacity needs SEARCA Development of best practice and extension modules to support individual capacity needs Support capacity needs of AAS providers through capacity strengthening events (trainings, learning routes, peer-to-peer coaching, etc.) Review of extension policy gaps/needs and suport policy dialogues using evidence based best practices, IFAD, GFRAS & SEARCA, IFAD, GFRAS & SEARCA, IFAD, GFRAS & SEARCA PIRAS and SPC - Pilot countries include Fiji, Philippines and Bangledash

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