Relevance – Region: The project will require economies to engage in the stock taking activities and share lessons learned or their knowledge on existing policies available on sustainable and climate resilient agriculture, fisheries and aquaculture within individual sectors to enhance food security. This will be done through a workshop which brings together technical and policy expertise. The information gathered during the workshop in 2019 will be synthesised into a stocktake document which will guide Phase two of the MYAP. Climate Change is a global challenge and APEC member economies will need information, capacities and good practices that aid towards meeting this challenge and aims to contribute towards that means. This project ensures that APEC as a whole is on target with implementation of the MYAP FSCC 2018-2020.
Relevance – Eligibility: The project is under APEC’s economic and technical cooperation agenda which is aimed at attaining sustainable growth and equitable development, while reducing economic disparities among APEC economies and improving economic and social well-being. MYAP is priority of the immediate past APEC host economy (Viet Nam 2017) and the current host economy (PNG 2018).
Relevance – Capacity Building: Under the capacity building goals and objectives the project supports sustainable and equitable development in the APEC and intends to build economies (especially developing economies) capacity on food security and climate change relationships. The project has a long term benefit given the threats to food security posed by climate change and the co benefits of greenhouse gas reduction in the region. The project will identify and assess existing policies in relation to sustainable and climate resilient agriculture, fisheries and aquaculture in the APEC. The process will involve the full participation of the APEC economies and benefit from it. The project will enable member economies to improve their policies on climate change and food security relationships.
Alignment – APEC: The project linked to Niigata Declaration on APEC Food Security, the first comprehensive APEC plan for promoting regional Food Security. It also aligns to Kazan Declaration 2012 and Beijing Declaration 2014 on Food Security which stated: “the increasingly urgent need to adapt agricultural systems to climate change and help agricultural communities become more resilient to droughts and floods, especially for smallholders”. and Piura Declaration outlining new plans for tackling food security respectively. It is also related to Can Tho Statement and Da Nang Declaration 2017 on “Enhancing Food Security and Sustainable Agriculture in response to Climate Change”, addressing Food Security-Climate change relationship, which links directly with the work of APEC economies for implementing the APEC Food Security Roadmap Towards 2020 on the strategy on; Sustainable Development of the Agriculture and Fishery Sector to achieve its long term goal. It links to one of the three primary pillars: a. sustainably increases agricultural, fisheries, and aquaculture productivity and income. And it strongly aligns with the APEC PNG 2018 priority 2 on Sustainable and Inclusive Growth, (c) promoting food security to progress the work on MYAP that requires further actions. Additionally, it is aligned with Sustainable Development Goal 2 and 13.
Alignment – Forum: The project is aligning to MYAP 2018–2020 Key Actions under its Policy Work stream, focusing on assessing and stocktaking on current and ongoing policies, new policy initiatives and lightly focus on the main areas of the other work streams and engagement of developed and developing economies on climate change impacts on the agriculture, fisheries and aquaculture sectorsand the objectives of APEC Food Security Roadmap Towards 2020, point 12 on sustainable development of agriculture and fisheries sectors, the Food Security Business Plan 2014 – 2020 goal on “Sustainable development on agriculture and fisheries.
Work plan: Should the concept note and project proposal be accepted, TORs will be drafted and climate and agriculture experts (contractors) within APEC will be identified for the stock taking exercise which will involve document and analysis of existing policies and practices at the economy level in August 2018. In SOM 3 in August/September 2018 project activity outline and timeframe will be presented. By February 2019 (SOM1) early findings will be presented and recommendation made. August/September, 2019, stakeholder workshop in the margins of SOM3 to validate the results and share findings. The report will be reviewed and a final draft will be provided in November 2019.The report will then inform for the second phase of the MYAP. The steps to undertake the stock take are; i) Broad survey sent to MYAP contact point from all economies. ii) Key information’s/stakeholders interviews, iii) targeted case studies from few economies on key Climate Resilient Agriculture policies, and iv) stakeholders workshop to both validate the results and share early findings. Based on that with the project will develop a dashboard of existing CRA/CSA policies across APEC economies, it would provide an overview of the status of implementation, key objectives, focus areas, target groups, funding mechanisms and key implementation challenges.
Timeline 2018/2019
WG
Initiative
August 2018
SOM3
Aug/Sept 2018
SOM1
Feb 2019
Aug/Sept 2019
November 2019
Comment
PPFS
MYAP – Assessing & Stocktaking on economy level policies relating…
Draft TORs and engage contractors
Present Project activity outline & timeframe
Present early findings
Stakeholders Workshop to validate the result and share findings
Review Report & Final draft provided.
Engage consultants to undertake stocktake
Beneficiaries: The direct beneficiaries of the project include policy makers, technical experts on climate change, agriculture, fisheries/aquaculture and the APEC developing economies and developed economies. Indirect beneficiaries include SME agriculture farmers and fishers, researchers, students, food producers and consumers, agri-business and the general public.
Evaluation: The success or outcome will be measured by the number of developed and developing economies actively participated by contributing the necessary information. That is the number of economies that actually have a current policy or a new policy initiative on sustainable and climate resilient agriculture, fisheries and aquaculture. The impact will be measured through the number of new policies developed and or existing policies reviewed. Capacity building outcomes would be measured through assessing the levels of increase in cooperation activities, knowledge and new/strengthened capacities of APEC economy participants through pre and post event surveys. A project base line will be provided during the project preparation state to measure the stock takes success in terms of delivery of activities in time and on budget.Linkages: PPFS will oversee and manage this project under the MYAP in close cooperation with other APEC fora such as the Agricultural Technical Cooperation Working Group (ATCWG), the High Level Policy Dialogue on Agricultural Biotechnology (HLPDAB), and the Oceans and Fisheries Working Group (OFWG). PPFS will engage with the related APEC fora to ensure that MYAP activities are closely coordinated with their efforts so that there is consistency in the implementation of the MYAP. International organizations such as World Bank, FAO, IFAD etc., and regional organizations such as PIF and ASEAN and think tanks such as the Climate Institute and APEC’s Climate Center which have vast experience and knowledge on the area will be represented. Relevant domestic agencies and institutions directly linked to the project will also be represented.