ESCAP-EPOC
10 Dec 2011
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SIDS Policy and Practice
24 November 2010: The UN Asian and Pacific Training Centre for Information and Communication Technology for Development (UN-APCICT), a regional institution of the Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP), and the Secretariat of the Pacific Community (SPC) have announced a partnership to increase the capacity and use of information and communication technology for development (ICTD) in Pacific countries.
Launched at the Second Session of the ESCAP Committee on Information...
10 Dec 2011
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SIDS Policy and Practice
22 February 2011: The Secretariat of the Pacific Community (SPC), together with Palau’s Ministry of Public Infrastructure, Industries and Commerce, and Asian and Pacific Training Centre for Information and Communication Technology for Development (APCICT), convened a two-day workshop on National Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) for Development, from 9-10 February 2011 in Koror, Palau.
The workshop aimed to assist Palau in addressing the current lack of ICT capacity in the...
10 Dec 2011
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SIDS Policy and Practice
April 2011: The Pacific Island Forum Secretariat (PIFS) has announced that, as part of the Cairns Compact on Strengthening Development Coordination in the Pacific, peer reviews are underway on national planning, budgeting, financial and aid management systems and processes.
The Cairns Compact is an initiative agreed by Pacific Leaders at the 2009 Pacific Islands Forum. It aims to accelerate progress toward the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) by strengthening Forum Island countries’ (FIC)...
10 Dec 2011
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SIDS Policy and Practice
21 July 2011: The Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP), the UN Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP), and the Government of Samoa convened the Open Forum on Green Growth. The Forum aimed to increase understanding of green growth in a practical context in the Pacific region, and to contribute to the UN Conference for Sustainable Development (UNCSD, or Rio+20) Subregional Preparatory Committee (PrepCom) for Pacific Countries.
The Forum took...
10 Dec 2011
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SIDS Policy and Practice
24 July 2011: The Joint Ministerial Meeting of the UN Conference for Sustainable Development (UNCSD, or Rio+20) Subregional Preparatory Committee (PrepCom) for Pacific Countries adopted “in principle” an outcome document, including recommendations, and agreed that Pacific Island Countries (PICs) and the Council of Regional Organisations in the Pacific (CROP) would provide comments on the document prior to 1 August 2011.
The meeting was convened in Apia, Samoa, from 21-22 July 2011, by the...
