Regional policy forum on Developing Public Policies for Family Farming

Post date 29/04/2021 By

Regional policy forum on “Developing Public Policies for Family Farming: Reaching Out to the Grassroots” through Participatory Policy Making co-organized by Southeast Asian Regional Center for Graduate Study and Research in Agriculture (SEARCA) and Asian Farmers Association (AFA) will be held virtually on 27th April from 9:00 am to 1:00 pm (Manilla time) via Zoom.

Regional policy forum will be attended by representatives from SEARCA, AFA and its national platforms in Southeast Asia, other farmers’, and civil society organizations (e.g., AsiaDHRRA), as well as the academe and research institutions with recent initiatives and projects related to family farming in Southeast Asia.

The objectives of the forum aim to provide a venue to identify and analyze the enabling factors and constraints to participatory policy making and how such a bottom-up approach can help ensure policy objectives are met and translated into equitable and sustainable benefits for its intended beneficiaries, primarily those at the grassroots level. Specifically, the forum aims to:

  1. Identify lessons, gaps, and bottlenecks in operationalizing participatory policy making as experienced by various actors in Southeast Asian countries;
  2. Provide evidence on how people participation has been an effective method for public policy making by looking at specific country cases as well as the experiences in the development of UNDFF’s National Action Plans (NAPs) in selected countries in Southeast Asia; and
  3. Gather insights and recommendations on how to further promote and strengthen the adoption of participatory policy making in public policy development to maximize the benefits that reaches the grassroots and ensure that policies cater to their actual needs.

This event is a great opportunity to share and learn more about on-going initiatives across the region to support family farming in the framework of the UN Decade of the Family Farming.

This is a copy of an article from the website of FAO in Vietnam
For the original article, please see: http://www.fao.org/vietnam/news/detail-events/en/c/1396803/

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