2010 Progress Report – Draft - NFP Facility

2010 Progress Reportto a standstill, in waiting for Government approval after the successful nfp stakeholder formulation process.Compared to 2009, the nfp process has finally taken off in Laos. The South Pacific Islands, Palau, Vanuatu andthe regional SPC are not moving mainly due to lack of coaching capacity (relying on FAO sub-regional staff). InIndonesia, the federal-level support for the nfp process is lacking as they are fully occupied with the much largerclimate related programs and projects.In total, 43 partner countries (Table 8), out of 70, received direct country support in 2010 (41 in 2009). As inprevious years, very few countries are spending the target of 100,000 US$ per year. Average annual countrysupport amounts to less than 70,000 US$ (not counting the GFP support to Guatemala, Liberia andMozambique).The budget for the “Nfp’s for All” initiative was almost spent as planned. The launching of second partnershipagreements was done, involving the stakeholder committees, but not in the form of capacity building workshopsas no need for this was expressed. The “Nfp’s for All” module on “Participation” was implemented in Malawi,Lesotho, Liberia, Gambia, Uganda and Zambia. In addition, a Latin American ToT event was implemented atCATIE in Costa Rica. An Asian ToT on the “Conflict Management” module was implemented at RECOFTC inThailand, and subsequent national workshops were held in China, Vietnam, Cambodia, the Philippines andThailand.The cost for Policy Backstopping in 2010 is on the same level as in 2009 and corresponds to 10% of the totalcosts. It is slightly lower than expected as the in-kind support from FAO, in terms of regional and sub-regionalstaff time dedicated to policy backstopping, remained at a high level in 2010.31