Livelihood
The PNPC is committed to improving the livelihood and income of the Project Affected People (PAPs) by providing materials, equipment, training and technical assistance in various livelihood activities for PAP income generation.
The Project’s Livelihood Program is managed through a consultative approach aimed to actively engage with the PAPs to understand their livelihood preferences and equipment/training needs. The approach encompasses: (i) augmenting existing livelihoods to be more productive; (ii) providing training and equipment; (iii) developing new and/or alternative sustainable livelihood activities to supplement their livelihood.
To achieve this, the PNPC has improved the PAPs’ existing agricultural lands and irrigation system, and, also developed a 261ha of new agricultural land provided with corresponding seasonal houses, water supply and a demonstration training center. In addition, equipment and training were provided for livelihood activities on their home plots and on off-farm activities, respectively.
Over the years, the PNPC Livelihood Program supported numerous income-generating activities, including, but not limited to:
- Provisions of hundreds of thousands of coffee seedlings
- Improving the quality of coffee production
- Provisions of thousands of fruit tree seedlings
- Household greenhouse vegetable production
- Mushroom cultivation
- Training, equipment, and provisions of fingerlings for aquaculture
- Fish fingerling production for aquaculture
- Provisions of seedlings and training for integrated cropping
- Poultry raising
- Organic fertilizer and organic pesticide production
- Livestock vaccination program
- Training and equipping of Village Veterinarian Volunteers
- Coffee end-product processing, which includes; roasting, packaging and marketing
- Promoted cash-crops with links to markets, including; (i) peanuts; (ii) ginger cultivation; (iii) Japanese Ginseng; (iv) corn cultivation, etc.
- Planting of Non-Timber Forest Products (NTFPs)
- Established and supported Village Revolving Fund (VRF) in villages to facilitate villagers’ access to credit for business
- Promoted banana and broom grass processing
