Enabling Environment

Strategic Objective: Enabling environment (policy, markets, institutions) for sustainable agricultural development influenced

Major strategies

• Conducive socio-cultural environment influenced
• Marketing opportunities to agricultural commodities enhanced and utilised by smallholder farmers.
• Institutional arrangements improved and utilised by relevant clients and stakeholders.
• Income opportunities identified for and utilised by farming communities
• Access to socio-economic services for smallholder farmers improved
• Improved ability of farming communities to mobilize land for agricultural development.

Under the NARI Re-aligned Structure, Enabling Environment is the third Programme of the Institute. The Programme operates both within the wider Institute Framework of NARI to complement the other Programmes as well as to draw expertise from them.  This Programme is also considered a National Programme because it takes into account issues of importance outside of the Institute framework, which affect the development of the agriculture sector.  For instance, for sustainable development, the agriculture sector needs a favourable and congenial environment, not only of agro-biophysical conditions, but also of affirmative policies, effective and efficient marketing systems and adequate institutional support and arrangements.   Often such environment is not readily available or its development requires special efforts or takes time as an integral part of interactive development process.

The Programme aims to influence an enabling environment for sustainable development, hence, its main thrust is to:

• take stock of existing socio-economic and agriculture development domain environment and their parameters
• help develop priority and high impact research portfolios
• understand impact of external factors on the development of farming communities and of the agriculture sector in general
• understand and project environmental needs of improved technologies
• design appropriate strategies and policies for influencing such environment, relating to improved technologies
• develop and utilize appropriate approaches and methods of planning, monitoring and impact assessment

The above are addressed through various areas of research such as:

• socio-cultural and economic research
• impact assessment
• market and marketing systems research
• innovation systems studies
• policy and strategic research
• spatial information system analysis
• research planning and program development

Staff

The Enabling Environment Programme is coordinated from the NARI Head Office in Lae, Morobe Province. The following is the strength and distribution of programme staff at present:

• Ms. Norah Omot, Programme Leader - NARI Head Office
• Mr. Joshua Ryan, Snr M&E Officer/Economist - NARI Head Office
• Mr. Jimmy Maro, GIS Officer - NARI Head Office
• Mr. Clifton Gwabu, Resource Economist - Southern Regional Centre, Laloki, Central Province
• Mr. Eleo Dowa, Economist - NARI Head Office
• Mr. Arnold Patiken, Economist - NARI Head Office

Enabling Environment Programme
NARI Head Quarters
Sir Alkan Tololo Research Centre
Kana Aburu Haus
P.O Box 4415
Lae 411, Morobe Province
Papua New Guinea

Phone: (675) 475 1444
Fax: (675) 475 1450
Email: naripng@nari.org.pg