Papua New Guinea Vision 2050.

The Papua New Guinea Vision 2050 is a national policy that offers the framework for a long-term strategy that maps out the future direction of the country and reflects the aspirations of the people of Papua New Guinea. Vision 2050 is built on seven strategic focus areas which are referred to as pillars: Human Capital Development, Gender, Youth, and People Empowerment; Wealth Creation; Institutional Development and Service Delivery; Security and International Relations; Environmental Sustainability and Climate Change; Spiritual Cultural, and Community Development; and Strategic Planning, Integration and Control.
From an agriculture sector perspective, to reduce poverty and help with wealth creation efforts will focus on various sectors. In the agriculture sector, efforts will expand to: establish two major economic projects in all 89 districts; Expand production volume of all major cash crops to enable downstream processing; Provide two agriculture extension officers per district; Improve the terms and conditions of employment of agricultural officers; Establish a unified agricultural plan by 2015. In the forestry sector efforts will expand to: Eliminate the export of round logs by 2010; Ensure the downstream processing of all logs onshore; and Develop forestry plantations in suitable areas, with landowner participation.
In the fisheries sector efforts will expand to: Establish fisheries projects and markets in economically viable districts; Establish one coastal fishery processing facility in the majority of maritime provinces; and Develop an aquaculture program for inland areas. In the tourism sector efforts will focus to: Register all terrestrial and marine resources as incorporated group for tourism; Introduce a tourism and hospitality curriculum in high schools, secondary schools and national high schools; and Employ attractive, aggressive marketing and promotion of Papua New Guinea, as a preferred tourist destination.
To make environment more sustainable and increase resilience to climate change, efforts will expand to: Reduce greenhouse emission by 90 percent to 1990 levels; Assist the majority of Papua New Guineans to become resilient to natural and human disasters and environmental changes; Establish a Sustainable Development Policy in all sectors, especially forestry, agriculture, mining, energy and oceans by 2015; Develop mitigation, adaptation and resettlement measures in all impacted provinces by 2015; Conserve biodiversity at the current five to seven percent of the world’s biodiversity; Establish a total of 20 national reserves, wilderness areas and national parks; Establish at least one million hectares of marine protected areas; Conserve and preserve cultural diversity; Provide 100 percent power generation from renewable energy sources; Provide 100 percent of weather and natural disaster monitoring systems in all provinces; Integrate environmental sustainability and climate change studies in primary, secondary and national high school curricula; and Establish an Institute of Environmental Sustainability and Climate Change.
Vision 2050 embraces equality and participation as a national goal and guiding principle contained in the constitution. An independent entity will develop a monitoring and evaluation framework that will be used to track progress made. Information generated through the reviews will be analysed regularly and documented in quarterly and annual monitoring reports. Reviews must be under taken by intervals during the envisioned period. It is important that major reviews are undertaken in 2019, 2029 and 2039. This will allow the next generation to reassess and set new targets for 2020 up to 2050 respectively.