Knowledge Management
28 Mar 2012
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SIDS Policy and Practice
16 March 2012: The Secretariat of the Pacific Community (SPC), through the Union des Femmes Francophones d’Océanie (Union of Francophone Pacific Women), which includes French-speaking women organizations from French Polynesia, Wallis and Futuna, Vanuatu and New Caledonia, convened a meeting to discuss women’s civil rights within the framework of customary and common law, in Noumea, New Caledonia.
According to SPC, people from one of the eight Kanak nations in New Caledonia have their...
27 Mar 2012
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SIDS Policy and Practice
24 March 2012: The Secretariat of the Pacific Community (SPC) commemorated World Tuberculosis (TB) Day on 24 March, under the theme of “Stop TB in my lifetime.” In the Pacific, 16,107 TB cases were diagnosed in 2010, 14,531 in Papua New Guinea and 1,576 in other Pacific Islands countries (PICs).
According to SPC, despite good treatment success rates, TB continues to burden PICs. World TB Day 2012 calls for a world free of TB and encourages community advocating for better vaccines, more...
26 Mar 2012
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SIDS Policy and Practice
23 March 2012: The Equator Initiative has announced its 2012 Equator Prize winners, honoring 25 initiatives from around the globe for their role in advancing sustainable developments through innovative and pioneering projects.
After evaluating the 800 nominations received by the Equator Initiative’s Technical Advisory Committee, winners’ projects consist of initiatives on freshwater access, food security, sustainable energy and oceans, among others. A total of seven projects from...
26 Mar 2012
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SIDS Policy and Practice
23 March 2012: The 2012 edition of World Meteorological Day was organized by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) around the theme “Powering our future with weather, climate and water.” The Day commemorates the entry into force of the WMO Convention, which took place on 23 March 1950.
The 2012 World Meteorological Day focuses on the benefits of weather, climate and water information for different socioeconomic sectors. It builds on WMO’s ongoing efforts to stress the...
22 Mar 2012
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SIDS Policy and Practice
20 March 2012: The UN Development Programme (UNDP) has released its first Caribbean Human Development Report, titled “Human Development and the Shift to Better Citizen Security,” which covers Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, Guyana, Jamaica, Saint Lucia, Suriname, and Trinidad and Tobago.
According to the report, 12 of the 20 most violent countries in the world are in Latin America and the Caribbean. UNDP underscores that crime has become one of the main challenges threatening economies and...
