Policy Reform and Governance

LGP focuses on supporting national and local governments and communities as they advance participatory land-use planning—particularly toward defining and managing conservation areas for their biodiversity and ecosystem functions. Policy development is a long and convoluted process, and proposals or opportunities can expire due to a variety of challenges in the policy process.

Advancing policy is LGP’s approach, building on the advocacy that already created consensus during earlier steps. LGP will facilitate additional policy advances, such as a review of PNG’s multilateral environmental agreements, development of the Biodiversity Offsets Policy, adoption and ratification of the Nagoya Protocol, outreach on the Protected Areas Policy Implementation Plan in the LGP provinces, and development of the provincial protected areas laws that are compatible with the new protected areas bill. LGP will support these significant legal framework elements as feasible, working to pilot recommended activities in the target sites.