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Azerbaijan and FAO holds final workshop on NMTPF

10 December 2009 15:13 (UTC +04:00)

Baku. Rashad Suleymanov - APA-Economics. The Government of Azerbaijan and the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) held a Final Workshop in Azerbaijan to present and discuss the Draft National Medium Term Priority Framework (NMTPF).

The event was attended by the participants representing all concerned governmental organizations, including the Cabinet of Ministers, the Ministries of Agriculture, Ecology and Natural Resources, Economic Development, Research Institutions.

Representatives from the donors community, International agencies and financial institutions, NGOs and the private sector also attended.

The overall aim of the Workshop is to present, discuss and agree with the concerned parties on the draft NMTPF document so as to reach a consensus on the priorities for FAOâ€™s assistance during the next three years.

Azerbaijanâ€™s Minister of Agriculture Ismat Abasov described the NMTPF as a structure that will allow achieving the national development objectives in agricultural and rural development as well as the development of farming, stock rasing, foresting and fishing, protection and management of natural resources and ensuring the sustainability of income-generating in the agriculture, and strengthening the legal framework.

The FAO officer for Azerbaijan Mustafa Sinaser said that the NMTPF is a framework document prepared with each member country of FAO to outline the priority areas of work jointly implemented for duration of three years.

The draft framework for Azerbaijan focuses on:

1. Enabling Environment for Agriculture, Livestock, Forestry and Fishery Development
2. Protection and Management of Natural Resources
3. Sustainable Equity-driven Agriculture Production and Income Generation
4. Improvement of Rural Infrastructure
5. Strengthening the Policy and Legal Framework for Agriculture and Rural Development

It outlines FAOâ€™s possible assistance in collaboration with the national authorities and other development partners towards achieving the national development objectives in agricultural and rural development as well as the Azerbaijani Millennium Development Goals. It aims at complementing and contributing to the strategic objectives of the UN common system expressed in the UN Development Assistance Framework (UNDAF) 2011-2015.