Papua New Guinea
24 Jan 2013
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SIDS Policy and Practice
23 January 2013: The Pacific Island Forum Secretariat (PIFS) has announced the team of Pacific experts tasked with conducting an independent review of the Pacific Plan for Strengthening Regional Cooperation and Integration. According to PIFS, the review team already has initiated national consultations on the Pacific Plan.
The Pacific Plan serves as a framework to guide the work of national governments, regional agencies and development partners in support of national action by PIFS member...
09 Jan 2013
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SIDS Policy and Practice
14 December 2012: Commonwealth education ministers have agreed on a set of core recommendations for a framework to succeed Education for All and the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in education.
Representatives from 12 Commonwealth countries, including the education ministers from six, met in London, UK from 12-13 December 2012, to conclude their recommendations on the post-2015 development agenda for education. The Ministerial meeting was chaired by the Minister of Education and Human...
18 Dec 2012
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SIDS Policy and Practice
14 December 2012: The Global Environment Facility (GEF) and the UN Development Programme (UNDP) launched a publication titled “Catalysing Ocean Finance: Transforming Markets to Restore and Protect the Global Ocean,” in Washington, DC, US. The two-volume publication illustrates how public investment can reverse declines in global ocean health, scale up ocean planning and policy tools, leverage financial flows and transform ocean markets towards sustainability.
The publication includes a case...
05 Dec 2012
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SIDS Policy and Practice
4 December 2012: Through the REDD+ Partnership, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO), in collaboration with the UN Environment Programme World Conservation Monitoring Centre (UNEP-WCMC), have launched an online database of REDD+ investments.
The voluntary REDD+ database (VRD) was launched with data collected by Australia, France and Papua New Guinea for the purpose of improving REDD+ transparency. The VRD also supports the exchange of experiences on REDD+, and the...
26 Nov 2012
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SIDS Policy and Practice
22 November 2012: The Save Our Species (SOS) initiative has announced its support for 25 new projects. In this second round, SOS is funding conservation projects on dolphins, dugongs, manatees, gibbons, rhinos and tigers, as well as lesser known but similarly threatened species such as river turtles, Asian crocodiles, flying foxes, freshwater fish and plant species.
SOS is a global coalition initiated by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), the Global Environment Facility...
