Micronesia, Federated States of
23 Nov 2012
Convened by the Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP), this two-week course is open to participants from the Cook Islands, Federated States of Micronesia, Fiji, Kiribati, Nauru, Niue, Marshall Islands, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tonga, Tuvalu and Vanuatu. The course will focus on landfill and dumpsite management, leachate treatment and management, and environmental monitoring. [ for more information: http://sids-l.iisd.org/events/waste-...
22 Nov 2012
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SIDS Policy and Practice
19 November 2012: The Secretariat of the Pacific Community (SPC), together with the UN Population Fund (UNFPA), and UN Women, convened the “Regional Gender Mainstreaming Stocktake and Gender Statistics Meeting,” in Nadi, Fiji, in early November.
Attended by representatives from the Pacific region, the meeting focused on sharing and discussing information gleaned from SPC’s work undertaking “gender stocktakes.” According to SPC, gender stocktakes were completed from 2009-2010 for...
12 Nov 2012
Convened by the Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP), this course, is open to participants from the Cook Islands, Federated States of Micronesia, Fiji, Kiribati, Nauru, Niue, Marshall Islands, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tonga, Tuvalu, and Vanuatu. The course will focus on various waste management techniques, including policy and strategic approaches to integrated solid waste management, hazardous waste management and other key waste management...
06 Nov 2012
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SIDS Policy and Practice
5 November 2012: The Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP) has announced that the Japan Technical Cooperation Project for the Promotion of Regional Initiative on Solid Waste Management (J-PRISM) programme, a five-year project funded by the Government of Japan, is successfully building the capacity of Pacific Island countries through a “learning-by-doing” approach. J-PRISM is coordinated in partnership with SPREP.
According to SPREP, J-PRISM activities are centered...
05 Nov 2012
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SIDS Policy and Practice
28 October 2012: Participants in the second technical workshop of the Western Indian Ocean Coastal Challenge (WIO-CC) adopted a declaration committing to fulfill the WIO-CC, including by addressing the need for a resource mobilization and sustainable finance strategy that includes private sector engagement. Representatives from Comoros, France (Réunion), Kenya, Madagascar, Mauritius, Mozambique, Seychelles, and Tanzania (Zanzibar) attended the workshop, held from 22-26 October 2012, in Port...
