Growing Trees now
Climate Mitigation and adaptation
Agro-forestry systems, reforestation and afforestation are promoted to landowners and communities to increase participation in the global effort on carbon removal.
Mangrove forests reforestation projects are crucial marine sea foods sustainability.
Menduna mangrove restoration project in Tuna Bay, Taurama, east of Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea. is community effort for biodiversity and ecosystem protection.
Coffee Growers' Association
Tree Farming as a Business
New coffee planting program integrated with Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation. 50,000 hectares coffee planting project, 160,000,000 trees to be planted.
Coffee first fruits in year three.
Need strategic partners to fund $650 per ha.
Carbon removal by coffee-based agroforestry system. Indigenous people and communities contributing to the global effort in global warming reduction.
Cocoa Growers' Association
Cocoa planting program 2025 -2030 : 100,000 hectares, 160,000,000 trees to be planted.
Cocoa trees bear first fruit in year two.
Need strategic partners to fund tree planting at US$650.00 per ha.
Carbon removal by cocoa-based agroforestry system. Indigenous people and communities contributing to the global effort in global warming reduction.
Youth Green Entrepreneurs are planting trees as a business:
1. Balsa blocks and plantations
2. Teak blocks and plantations
3. New Guinea red cedar
4. Candlenut
5. Sandal wood
6. Eucalyptus grandis
7. Rosewood
8. Taun (Pometia pinnata)
9. Cashew nut
10. Kwila (Instia bijuga).
100,000 hectares planting program.
National Green Entrepreneurs' Network (NGEN)
100,000 households to plant 1,500 trees each, thus 160,000, 000 trees.
Sponsor one household at US$650.00 per ha.
Vision
Youth led green and blue economic development for richer indigenous people and communities
Mission
Model 100,000 youth green entrepreneurs to operate green and blue SMEs based on core competencies.
Core Values:
1. Honesty and hardworking, results oriented
2. Transparency
3. Accountability
4. Innovative, adaptive and market driven
5. Risk and sustainability management
People's Action For Rural Development Inc. 2006 - 2024
About Us
People's Action for Rural Development is a local NGO in Papua New Guinea, Indo-Pacific Region. We promote rural and nature based enterprises and support sustainable land and forest governance. We are projects developers and Project implementation management partners. We create awareness, mobilise community people for collective action governance institutional development. We focus on disadvantaged social groups to collectively identify livelihoods problems and find solutions. 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 developers, project/programmes management, organizational governance and management, agroforestry and forestation systems modelling and promotion, community peoples climate change mitigation and adaptation approaches for local food systems resiliences
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.
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.
PAfRD aims to promote carbon credits in this approach.
Joseph Puma1
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.
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.
The Village Women's Banking Programme (VWBP) is a community-based financial initiative created by Joseph Pumai, the Programs Director of Peoples Action for Rural Development (PAfRD) in Papua New Guinea. This program aims to support uned village women and girls who require credit to finance their informal micro and small businesses. With the existing financial market often and informal lenders imposing high interest rates, the VWBP has established systems and to address these challenges. Its primary goal is to provide access to credit for these women, offering a microfinance solution tailored to the local economic context to help combat inequalities.