PIFS
10 Dec 2011
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SIDS Policy and Practice
2 June 2011: The Pacific Islands Forum Secretariat (PIFS) welcomed the appointment of Andie Fong Toy, its first woman Deputy Secretary General. The Forum Secretariat underlined that Fong Toy brings to PIF extensive experience on Pacific legal issues, election observation missions and understanding of regional and international issues.
Fong Toy served as Director for PIFS’ Political Governance and Security Programme until 2008. Prior to her appointment as Director, she also served the...
10 Dec 2011
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SIDS Policy and Practice
3 June 2011: The Government of Niue has completed a peer-review process under the Forum Compact for Strengthening Development Coordination. Niue is the fifth country in the region to have volunteered to undertake a peer review since its endorsement by Pacific Islands Forum Leaders at their meeting in Cairns in 2009.
Niue has invited representatives of the Samoan and Nauruan Governments to represent the Forum island countries (FICs) on the team and a representative of AusAid to represent the...
10 Dec 2011
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SIDS Policy and Practice
9 June 2011: The Representative of the Trade Mission of Taiwan provided a loan of US$500,000 to the Council of Regional Organisations in the Pacific (CROP) agencies for the implementation of regional projects under the Regional Development Assistance for 2010/2011.
The loan will cover 15 projects implemented by CROP agencies. It will cover the implementation of regional projects in areas of education, data and information management, marine pollution, fisheries, capacity building and training...
10 Dec 2011
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SIDS Policy and Practice
17 June 2011: The Pacific Island Forum Secretariat (PIFS) has announced that the Government of Samoa is the first country to access the Pacific Environment Community (PEC) Fund. The PEC Fund is a commitment of US$66 million by the Government of Japan to support Forum Island Country (FIC) projects on the provision of solar power generation systems and sea water desalination plants.
According to PIFS, the US$4 million allocation for Samoa involves the development of a 400kWp solar photovoltaic...
10 Dec 2011
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SIDS Policy and Practice
6 July 2011: The Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP) has reported on the Pacific Islands Greenhouse Gas Abatement through Renewable Energy Project (PIGGAREP), which is being implemented in 11 Pacific island countries.
Countries participating in the US$5.23 million renewable energy project are Cook Islands, Fiji, Kiribati, Nauru, Niue, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tonga, Tuvalu and Vanuatu.
PIGGAREP, funded by the Global Environment Facility (GEF),...
