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Plant Production and Protection Division for a world without hunger Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations Elements for Developing PGRFA Regional Collaborative Activities Chikelu Mba Plant Genetic Resources and Seeds Team Plant Production and Protection Division

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Plant Production and Protection Divisionfor a world without hunger

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations

Elements for Developing PGRFA Regional

Collaborative Activities

Chikelu Mba

Plant Genetic Resources and Seeds Team

Plant Production and Protection Division

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Outline• In Context

– Food and nutrition security

– TCP/SNO/3401 – Optimizing the Use of PGRFA for Adaptation to Climate Change

• Second Global Plan of Action for PGRFA– Three Targets (Conservation, Use, Institutions and

Human Capacity)

• National PGRFA Strategy– Developing and Implementing a National PGRFA

Strategy

• Perspectives on Regional Commonalities

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Profiling Food (In)Security

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• Framework for the management of PGRFA

• 18 Priority Activities in four main groups:

• In Situ Conservation and Management

• Ex Situ Conservation

• Sustainable Use

• Building Sustainable Institutional and Human Capacities

• Implementation to be monitored through 3 targets

• Conservation

• Sustainable Use

• Institutions and Human Capacities

• Will assist countries domesticate international norms and processes and meet commitments

The Second GPA

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The blueprint for the management of a country’s PGRFA

• Template to implement the Second GPA, other PGRFA-related commitments

• Customizable

• Identifies the national vision, goals and objectives, and the corresponding plan of action

• Assigns responsibilities, resources, and timeframes

• Aligned with national development objectives, e.g. food and nutrition security, climate change, desertification, etc.

National Strategy for PGRFA: What?

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• Enhances the efficiencies through:

• national-level coordination of all PGRFA-related activities thereby enabling concerted actions,

• the pooling of resources and

• the avoidance of wasteful duplications and rivalry

• Facilitates the monitoring of progress

• Fosters partnerships and linkages

• Facilitates the ease of developing country reports to regional and global initiatives, frameworks, agreements, etc.

National Strategy for PGRFA: Why?

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National coordination, e.g. by National PGRFA Committee, to encompass:

o public sector -- ministries, departments and institutions (e.g. agriculture, environment, commerce, education, science and technology, tourism, etc.)

o private sector

o civil society

Two distinct levels of involvement by relevant sectors:

o Policy makers

o Practitioners – germplasm curators, plant breeders, other scientists, seed sector, extension services, environmentalists, educators, etc.

National Strategy for PGRFA: By whom?

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Stage A: Establishment of a coordinating mechanism

o Should derive from existing institutions and processes, such as the National PGRFA Programme

o A core team from the National PGRFA Programme (or similar structure) be appointed to coordinate and drive the preparation of the strategy

o This core team is referred to as the ‘National PGRFA Committee’

National Strategy for PGRFA: How?

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Stage B -- Content of Strategy

Conduct country assessment on the state of PGRFA to identify gaps and priorities across the PGRFA continuum, from conservation, through use to seed delivery

Based on the country assessment define clearly what the strategy sets out to accomplish

Formulate a vision statement

Define action plan with goals, activities, targets, indicators and timeframe

Provide detailed budget

National Strategy for PGRFA: How?

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Stage C -- Finalization and consultation

Extensive consultation with widest stakeholder base

Inputs from a broad spectrum of interest groups contribute to shaping the final version of the National Strategy for PGRFA

Stakeholder consultations must be well planned and facilitated in order to ensure meaningful participation

National Strategy for PGRFA: How?

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Implementation of the National PGRFA Strategy

Execution of agreed upon activities

Monitoring and evaluation

Reporting on the agreed activities

National Strategy for PGRFA: How?

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Measures in a National PGRFA Strategy

Strengthened linkages between PGRFA curators and users

Efficient conservation of PGRFA

Improved PGRFA use to address national crop improvement

goals Strengthened linkages between crop improvement and seed

delivery Implementation of national rules and legislations

Increasing public awareness

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Regional Collaboration Adds Value to Development and Implementation of National PGRFA Strategy?• Common key gaps, constraints and needs? • Activities to address these over the next two

years • what exactly should be done; • by whom; • how should it/they be executed; • how should implementation be monitored?

• In the contexts of:• climate change adaptation and mitigation• National Sovereignty over PGRFA

Regional Collaborative PGRFA Activities

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Thank you very much!!!