27 May 2016 - State agriculture, forestry, fisheries, and livestock
agencies and representatives from research extension and statistics field
offices along with supporting staff from the FSM Department of Resources and
Development convened on May 23, 2016 for a week-long training workshop in Kolonia,
Pohnpei to train the State Trainers for the 2016 FSM Integrated Agriculture
Census (IAC) to fully prepare their respective State enumerators on the IAC materials
to count natural resource information across the FSM.
Agriculture, forestry, fisheries, livestock, research
extension and statistics representatives from the States of Chuuk, Kosrae,
Pohnpei, and Yap attended the workshop facilitated by the FSMR&D’s staff
from the Division of Statistics and Division of Resource Management and
Development), with support from the FSM National Congress, Food and Agriculture
Organization to the United Nations (FAO), Secretariat of the Pacific Community
(SPC), India Government and US Department of Agriculture (USDA). This multi-donor project is to support the 2016
FSM Integrated Agriculture Census with data collection of agriculture (crops and
livestock), forestry and fisheries information from all households in the four
FSM States. This information will be
compiled at State and National levels to guide Government line agencies and
policy-makers on developing sectoral interventions and development partners on
technical assistance projects/programs.
“Census
is the mother of all information gathering,” Statistics Assistant Secretary Mathew
Chigiyal stated during his opening remarks. “This effort requires teamwork
between National and State line agencies and within each State amongst the
resource agencies because the success of this Census depends on this teamwork
and each team is dependent on each other for a successful outcome.”
The workshop included presentations from both national
government support staff and state resource management experts in the field in
which they gave an overview on team preparation, materials, support tools and
lessons learned from the pre-testing trial to assist the 2016 FSM IAC State
Trainers.
“I am one of those from Agriculture who insisted on this
Census and this training gives me the confidence to learn from our pre-testing
experience and carrying out the Census in July,” said Adelino Lorens, Pohnpei
State Agriculture Division Chief.
“This workshop allows
for a face-to-face time in coordinating with the Chuuk, Kosrae, Pohnpei and Yap
State Managers to develop a detailed training plan for our supervisors and enumerators,”
said Marlyter Silbanuz, FSMR&D’s Agriculture Program Manager.
For additional information please contact Alissa Takesy at FSM
Department of Resources and Development at (691) 320-2620/2646/5133 at alissa.takesy@fsmrd.fm
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