Policy Reform and Governance
The LGP will focus on supporting national and local governments and communities as they advance participatory land-use planning with communities and local government—particularly towards defining and managing conservation areas for their biodiversity and ecosystem functions. Policy development is a long and convoluted process, and great proposals or opportunities can expire due to any number of challenges in the policy process. Advancing policy is our approach, building on the advocacy that already created consensus on earlier steps. The LGP will facilitate additional policy advances, such as a review of PNG’s Multilateral Environmental Agreements (MEAs), development of the Biodiversity Offsets Policy (BOP), adoption and ratification of the Nagoya Protocol, outreach on the Protected Areas Policy Implementation Plan (PAPIP) in the LGP provinces, and development of the provincial Protected Areas (PA) Laws that are compatible with the new PA Bill. The LGP will support these significant legal framework elements as feasible, working to pilot recommended activities in the target sites.
