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Target audience, stakeholders and geographical coverage
In the tsunami emergency and rehabilitation response, FAO fulfill its mandate as the UN technical agency specialized in fisheries, agriculture and forestry issues. The FAO overall goal for the tsunami programme is to ensure that:
Fisheries, agriculture and forestry based livelihoods of tsunami affected coastal rural areas are protected, rehabilitated and enhanced in a sustainable manner.
In this context, FAO adopted the UN Secretary General's special envoy motto "To build back better livelihoods in the tsunami zone".
To this purpose, FAO is working in most tsunami affected coastal rural areas in Indonesia, Sri Lanka, the Maldives, Thailand, Myanmar, the Seychelles and Somalia, with well identified target audiences and stakeholders, such as:
- governments of the affected countries and their central and district structures (mainly the ministries of Fisheries, Agriculture and Forestry), but also ministries of planning and reconstruction specialised bodies);
- affected rural and coastal communities;
- partner international and national NGOs (implementing partners) also for delivery of inputs, training and monitoring work;
- donors, UN organizations and country teams.
FAO role and approach in transition from recovery to longer term development: "continuing to build back better"
As the lead UN standard bearer in agriculture, fisheries and forestry sectors, FAO's role is to provide the countries affected by the tsunami with technical and policy guidance to plan, implement and coordinate all rehabilitation efforts in the fisheries and aquaculture, agriculture (including livestock) and forestry interventions with the aim of optimizing sustainable outcomes.
Together with key partners, FAO is ensuring a smooth transition from the emergency phase (12 months after the tsunami) to the recovery (about 2 to 3 years after the tsunami) and longer term reconstruction and development, bridging the gaps and advocating for the sustainable management of natural resources, thus helping people to rebuild their livelihoods better than before. To do so requires an adherence to a set of principles that build on the FAO's extensive experience in sustainable management of fisheries, agriculture and forest resources. These key principles are at the core of all building back better activities:
- Recognize the sovereign right of each country affected;
- Base all interventions on livelihoods, poverty alleviation and food security of the most vulnerable;
- Adopt participatory approaches, and to the extent possible rely essentially on inputs and skills and capacities used prior to the disaster and available locally;
- Promote activities which are economically viable and compatible with sustainable fisheries, agriculture and forestry management practices.
- Stress environmental sustainability in reconstruction strategies and activities to ensure the integrity and diversity of local ecosystems on which the well being of coastal communities depends;
- Adopt flexible and adaptive methods in order to respond to the multi-dimensions and complexity of the tsunami disaster and to match the diversity of stakeholders and their specific livelihoods needs;
- Strengthen national and local institutional capacity;
- Adopt a collaborative approach with international/regional development partners and donors for improved planning, implementation, coordination and information sharing;
- Adopt multi-sector and integrated / holistic approaches (linked to the interdependency of communities and socio-economic linkages between sectors and geographic areas), especially in view of the fragile coastal ecosystems affected by the tsunami.
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