2011

• Involvement in conducting MRV and REDD+ Technical Working Group (TWG) meetings to ensure stakeholder engagement in the design of a National MRV and REDD+ Mechanism.    

• A roadmap of all DP climate change assistance to Government of PNG through various government agencies has been produced and held in Office of Climate Change and Development (OCCD) as a guide for coordination and avoid duplication among partners to advance the work of REDD in the country with a two specific provincial government consultative workshops.  

• Completion and approval of Government of PNG’s National UN-REDD Programme Document.

• Implementation began with the MRV Design Workshop led by FAO to help stakeholders to understand what they have to do (develop a MRV Action Plan and a NFI Action Plan).

• National Programme Inception Workshop held on 12 and 13 July 2011 to improve awareness amongst stakeholders on the purpose of PNG’s Programme and agreement on the Work Plans.

• In August, FAO assisted OCCD to draft PNG’s REDD+ Action Plan for Information and MRV, to help government to build their specific MRV and NFI action Plans. Report from Information, Monitoring and MRV Workshop is available here.

• A group of GIS experts from different PNG government departments and academy went to Brazil in September for a 2 week-training organized by FAO to learn about the Information and MRV system.   

• Draft of FPIC guidelines currently under review.   

• OCCD began trialing REDD awareness raising targeting government representatives at the provincial, district and local levels in Morobe and New Ireland Province.