Organise, Network, Collective Action = Change
Peoples Action For Rural Development
Organizing marginalized people and communities for change.
Sustainable Community Land Forest Use Management Program SCLFUMP
Planting trees for firewood, timber, fruits, nuts, leaves and carbon sequestration
Climate change mitigation and adaptation approaches for community people.
The People of Papua New Guinea are Melanesian Society and have inhabited that land before the first white explorers and missionaries discovered them. They have customary land tenure rights over 462,840 sq. kilometres. They dwell in ethethno-linguistic societies due the existence of 850 different local languages thus diverse cultures. Sustainable land and forest management is important preserving natural sources for the future generation.
About Us
We are a NGO serving Indigenous People and Local Communities in Papua New Guinea. Our programmes are:
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1) Capacity Building for Good Governance'
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2) Sustainable Community Land & Forest Use Management since 2008
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3) Women's Micro-Enterprises Development & Microfinance Program since 2008
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4) Community Energy Access Programme (CEAP) 2023.
Our core activities are: Community development projects and programmes design, project/programmes management, organizational governance and management, agroforestry and forestation systems modling and promotion, community peoples climate change mitigation and adaptation approaches for local food systems resilience.
Nursery process requires training of the project beneficiaries to learn knowledge and skills of nursery techniques and producing quality tree seedlings for planted forest development. Quality seedlings can produce better trees in the field.
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Agroforestry and reforestation systems are long term investments, youth can particularly focus farming trees as a business. For example, a young boy can plant 3,000 Eucalyptus grandis and take care of them for 30 years. At the current market price of this particular tree species generates PGK500 to PGK1,000. It is like a savings plan.
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PAfRD aims to promote carbon credits in this approach.
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Indigenous people in their clan social group participated in tree seedlings planting. Men, women, and youth cooperated to the planting. The landowner and his family members took ownership of the trees care after planting. Vegetables with intercropped between the rows of trees. These vegetables were intended to be harvested before the tree canopy is high enough to obstruct sunlight. Weeding control in the early life of the trees was achieved through this approach.
The E.grandis is a commercial timber tree species for higher altitude localities. PAfRD has continuously trialed growing the species. Youth who have understood to potential business opportunity for this tree species can contact PAfRD technical officers for organizing planning and implementation of this tree farming business. If you have up two hectares of degraded land for converting into a planted forest, contact us.
Micro-concrete roofing tiles can be made from locally available raw materials (sand, aggregates, cement, and fibres or wires. The technology was adapted from the Parry Associates of England. The photograph shows a land care network training centre in Kerowagi district, Simbu province.
PAfRD, in line with climate change introduced permanent roofing materials from locally available materials. The MCR tiles are durable up to 70 years as compared to the corrugated roofing sheet which rusts at 30 years.
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PAfRD aims to promotes low climate change effects adaptable houses for low income earners in rural and urban areas. Women open market entrepreneurs are targeted in urban centres where land titles are issued to women.
Networking of green modeled farmers and Community Forest Governance Groups (CFGGs). Farmers and forest owners are important for economic development and growth of the country if their potentiality can be explored by SMEs policy promoters. PAfRD is promoting women and youth economic empowerment and sustainable livelihoods.