When these trainings came, I noticed that there is change in the community,” she said. The National Agriculture Research Institute have also provided farming and animal husbandry.
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“IOM provided us with a water catchment, FAO trained us on how to plant sweet potato, potato, wheat and rice, UN Women provided baking training and GBV training, Peace training. This has motivated us, and we are all working towards a better livelihood for us and our children,” she said.Ĭouncillor Maureen said the UN have given her community a lot of training. I’m also a single parent who struggled to put my six children through school. “I saw that a lot of mothers, their husbands had left them, and they struggled with their children to put food on the table and pay school fees. The United Nations in Papua New Guinea, through its agencies FAO, IOM, and UN Women are supporting Councillor Maureen to help her community. The perseverance paid off when their first partner, the Fresh Produce Development Agency (FPDA) stepped in to assist with basic agriculture training.įast forward to 2022, other partners have come on board to assist the community. Her ambition is to supply the whole of Hela Province with seeds from her multiplication site and ultimately improving farming practices.Ĭouncillor Maureen said that they initially lacked the skills and knowledge, but persevered. Her backyard plots have now become a multiplication site and she is supplying seeds, providing training in farming, sewing and horticulture to both the host and displaced communities in Hoiebia. We started changing the practice of planting sweet potato mounts to creating plots for different vegetables,” she said. I wanted to do something similar in my village, so I came back, and mobilized mothers and youths and we started our backyard farming.
“I lived for 30 years in Mt Hagen, and I saw they planted a lot of variety of vegetables. She first started backyard farming because she observed that the community planted only sweet potato and were not exposed to growing other garden foods such as potato, carrots, cabbage and broccoli.
Councillor Maureen opened her home to her community and those displaced by conflict back in 2013 when she first became the councillor. What do the member states expect from the world body? This book also explores the security perspectives of the members states, how the United Nations can minimize the volatility of member states and their reluctance to give support in the field of security, and the ways in which a real and effective partnership can be organized and secured between the United Nations and member states regarding conflict prevention and conflict management.Īt a time when security issues are becoming more complex, this book will be useful both for students and practitioners in the field of international affairs.Hoiebia Village acts as a sanctuary for communities affected by conflict in the Hela Province. The ability of the United Nations to resolve conflicts depends upon the support of member states. International Security Management and the United Nationsexplores the issues relating to the management of global peace and security - the kinds of comparative advantage the United Nations holds in the field of security compared to other states and regional organizations, the kinds of assets the United Nations has in terms of normative as well as operational capacities that states and regional arrangements lack and the assets the United Nations possesses to effectively deal with security issues. Global peace and security are among the United Nation’s core missions.
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