About the EU-FCCB Programme

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The European Union-funded Forestry-Climate Change-Biodiversity (EU-FCCB) Programme for Papua New Guinea 

The EU-FCCB Programme is a cooperation programme. The overall objective is “to support a development model that reconciles forestry, climate change and biodiversity with sustainable, inclusive and gender-responsive green growth and jobs at national and pilot subnational/community levels,” with three specific objectives (SOs) as outlined below:

• SO1: Effective implementation of evidence-based FCCB policies, governance, and institutional frameworks.
• SO2: Improved FCCB awareness, knowledge, capacities, and mobilisation; and
• SO3: Increased inclusive and gender-responsive green growth.

The EU-FCCB Programme is funded by the European Union and established in partnership with the Government of Papua New Guinea (GoPNG), represented by the Department of National Planning and Monitoring (DNPM). The EU-FCCB Programme consists of three components, each implemented by a different implementing partner:

• Component 1: Support at the national/institutional level with spillovers at the local/community level” (the national component), implemented by Expertise France.
• Component 2: Support the Managalas Conservation Area (Oro province), implemented by the Centre for International Forestry Research and World Agroforestry (CIFOR-ICRAF).
• Component 3: The extension of the National Forest Inventory, which is implemented by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations.

The EU-FCCB Programme is the Pacific Islands region's largest environmental programme of the European Union. It was launched on 31 October 2023 by the Rt. Hon. James Marape, Prime Minister of Papua New Guinea, and Mr Jacques Fradin, Ambassador of the European Union to Papua New Guinea.

For more info about the European Union to Papua New Guinea, please visit: The European Union and Papua New Guinea | EEAS (europa.eu)