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Background/context
• An agreement has been established in 2021 between the Pacific Community and the Kiwa Initiative for the execution of the The Pacific Organic Learning Farm Network for climate resilience
• The overall objective of the project is the development of organic farming systems for food security, climate change adaptation, and biodiversity conservation to strengthen resilience of smallholder producers through the establishment of a network of Organic Learning Farms OLFs). These organic farms will demonstrate the best organic and agroecological production methods, with a focus on enhanced biodiversity, that can be adopted by smallholder producers. These farms will demonstrate the benefits of biodiversity, agroecology, agroforestry and organic production practices for climate resilience.
• The project has four main components on;
1. Establishment of the Organic Learning Farms Network,
2. Enhancing crop and agro ecological management and production systems for resilient agriculture among network of farmers clusters, facilitated through Farmers Field School Approach,
3. Ensuring sustainability through market incentives and
4. Monitoring, knowledge management learning and visibility
• It is operational in Fiji, Tonga and Solomon Islands, with exchange and learning components with the members of the agroecology demonstration farms network of PROTÉGÉ implemented by SPC with the support of European Development Fund XI.
• Project implementation has started with the establishment of five dynamic and diverse organic learning farms in Fiji, Tonga and Solomon Islands. A total of 187 farmers (116 males and 71 females) have completed the first round of organic and agroecological training for Fiji, Tonga and Nauru. This training focused on organic agricultural production while addressing climate
change adaptation at the local level.
• In 2025, the project aims to develop technical exchanges among the communities in Tonga, Fiji and Solomon Islands, through the implementation of a farmer’s field school approach. Thus, farmer field school implementation and facilitation training need to be provided to local stakeholders such as in-country coordinators, farm advisors and lead farmers, to support the running of these FFS. Below is a graph to display the network organization

Purpose, objectives, scope of services
The bidder will have to provide capacity building to the OLFN partners in charge of the implementation of the FFS within the 3 countries (Fiji, Tonga and Solomon Islands) such as In-country coordinators, Farm Advisors and lead cluster farmers. The main outcome of the farmer field school training is for all trainees to be able to facilitate by themselves farmer field schools in their own communities.
The project will contract the services of (a team of) consultants to deliver one “in person trainings” on Farmer Field School methodology to POLFN participants, per country (Fiji, Tonga and Solomon Islands).
The training sessions can take place either at one of the OFL farms or at another site selected with the project team based on the trainer's recommendations. In each country, the number of participants will vary between 15 and 25, including in-country coordinators, farm advisors, clusters lead farmers, POLFN staff and extension officer from other organisation. The final number of beneficiaries will be determined in consultation with the service provider, based on their recommendations and feedback from similar
training experiences.
After in person training, trainers should be able to provide 5 days of remote technical support per countries. The ICCs as a part of their coordination duties, will be responsible for acting as a liaison between the service provider and the pool of trainees in their country, until end of 2025 in the implementation and facilitation of their FFS.
Topics to include:
1. Farmer field school implementation methodologies
2. Facilitation of interactive, locally and culturally adapted FFS
3. Challenges of FFS based on their experiences
4. Monitoring of FFS activities and evaluation of FFS impacts, linking with the project logframe when relevant