VANUATU

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National Green Export Review of Vanuatu:
◊ Improve linkages to the tourism sector to tap the local market for artisanal products
◊ Improve quality and food safety to meet growing world quality standards
◊ Add value across entire product line to motivate replanting
◊ Organic certification
Threats
◊ Aging trees, declining supply
◊ Poor tree management promoting pests and disease
◊ Change in government policy
◊ Rising quality standards of markets and increasing competition from other countries
The National Plan of Action (NPA)
The National Plan of Action (NPA) aims to build on strengths, seize opportunities, address weaknesses and
limit exposure to threats. Its formulation took place during the Second National Stakeholders Workshop.
Elements of the NPAs were thoroughly validated through extensive focus group discussions by all key
stakeholder groups in Vanuatu. Further to that, national experts have also been engaged in consultations with
relevant stakeholders (farmers, industry groups and government) leading up to finalization of this report and
the sectoral NPAs.
Stakeholders made recommendations that the NPAs respond to four broad objectives. These were:
1. Harness existing capacity of farmers, industries and private sector to increase and sustain market
related production;
2. Strengthen the institutional capacity of the MALFFB and MTTICNVB through their relevant departments
to monitor the speedy recovery of the three sectors;
3. Create a conducive and enabling environment for all three sectors to flourish; and
4. Provide support services for enhancing farmers, MSMEs and the private sector within the three value
chains.
Following from the policy objectives, there are targeted strategies for each sector which comprise key
prioritized actions and corresponding activities to fulfil these actions over a given period of time (5 years). This
report presents the NPAs for each of the three sectors coconut, cocoa and sandalwood.
The actions and activities are formulated taking into consideration current needs, identifying a lead actor to
implement each activity and other actors also involved; a timeframe for each activity; the sequencing among
activities; and finally, an estimate of the funds needed to complete each activity.
The full detailed NPAs are available from the Government of Vanuatu. In this report, only the guiding
stakeholder recommendations, and the agreed actions and activities are presented
For the next five years, Government of Vanuatu will be dedicated to implementing all three of the sectoral NPAs
with support from development partners as part of its overall policies supporting the productive sector.