Participants attend workshop focused on family values

A THREE-DAY workshop that focused on family values aligned with the European Union-funded support to rural entrepreneurship, Investment and Trade in Papua New Guinea (Streit PNG) programme was conducted in Wewak last week.
The training for cocoa, vanilla and fish farming families in Wewak, under the theme “Mainstreaming gender perspectives into agri-food value chains”, drew 32 participants (three women, 12 girls, 14 boys and three men) from April 20-22.
The EU-Streit PNG programme is being implemented by the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (FAO), as a joint programme and in collaboration with the Government and local partners with an emphasis on local “agripreneurs”.
It considers gender and youth inclusion as a critical factor affecting food security, nutrition and household incomes, and, in its entirety, affects the sustainable development of agri-food value chains.
Moreover, the prevalence of gender based-violence among cocoa/vanilla/fisheries communities also negatively impacts efforts encouraging economic empowerment and gender balance when it comes to decision making by individuals in family settings at the local level government, district and provincial levels.