UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) - Internship Programme for Asia and the Pacific (RAP)

Organizational Setting

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) leads international efforts to defeat hunger and to achieve food security for all and make sure that people have regular access to enough high-quality food to lead active, healthy lives. With over 195 Members, FAO works in over 130 countries worldwide. We believe that everyone can play a part in ending hunger. 

The Internship Programme aims to attract talented young women and men who are strongly motivated to share their new perspectives, innovative ideas, and latest academic experience in FAO’s domains. The Programme provides a learning opportunity to the participants to supplement their academic knowledge with a practical work assignment in a field related to the work of FAO.

Through the FAO internship experience, interns will contribute to the UN Sustainable Development Goals and FAO's Strategic Framework to support the 2030 Agenda through the transformation to MORE efficient, inclusive, resilient and sustainable agri-food systems for better production, better nutrition, a better environment, and a better life, leaving no one behind.

Reporting Lines

• The intern will report to an assigned supervisor. 

Technical Focus 

• The intern will be assigned to different fields of work according to his/her profile and to the needs of the Organization. 

Tasks and responsibilities

• The intern will perform the functions specified in the Terms of Reference (TOR) prepared by the hiring office.

About FAO RAP

Governments of Member Nations in Asia and the Pacific value FAO as a convener of regional knowledge sharing meetings and a repository of up-to-date information and advice on sound, sustainable agricultural practices that benefit all stakeholders – from providing expert advice on a wide range of food and agricultural practices, to strong collaboration with national research institutes to improve agricultural statistics, to extension work in the field that helps improve the food security and livelihoods of smallholder farmers and fishers. We also help countries prevent and respond to outbreaks of plant and animal diseases and build resilience to the effects of climate change and natural disasters. Up and down the value chain, from farm to fork, FAO’s team of specialists at the Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific, as well as those in country offices and at our headquarters in Rome, work to help our Member Nations and their people produce and consume safe, nutritious food, sustainably and in ways that reduce loss and waste.

Based in Bangkok, Thailand, these specialists at FAO Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific backstop the technical fieldwork of more than 300 projects at any given time. The Regional Office also administers FAO Representations in 15 countries across the region and a Subregional Office in the Pacific that works with governments and partners in a further 14 Pacific Island countries.