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SPC partnership with the European Union

The European Community Development Policy in the Pacific

Goals

The European Community (EC) development assistance, which is administered through the European Development Fund (EDF), seeks to promote :

sustainable economic and social development

smooth and gradual integration of developing countries into the world economy

alleviation of poverty

Geographic focus

These goals underpin the assistance given by the EC to the Group of African, Caribbean and Pacific States (ACP), which is governed by the current ACP-EC Partnership Agreement — Cotonou Agreement —, signed in 2000. In the case of overseas countries and territories (OCTs), EU assistance is governed by the Overseas Association Decision adopted by the European Council in 2001.

Since the Cotonou Agreement, six new states from the Pacific entered the ACP group. They are the Cook Islands, the Federated States of Micronesia, the Marshall Islands, Nauru, Niue and Palau.

The three EU-funded projects are currently implemented in Fiji, Kiribati, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tonga, Tuvalu, and Vanuatu. Extensions are scheduled to include the new ACP countries to the European development programme in the region.

The OCTs are French Polynesia, New Caledonia, Pitcairn and Wallis & Futuna.

The overall administration of the regional EDF-funded projects in the Pacific region is carried out by the Secretary General of the Pacific Islands Forum Secretariat — PIFS — for ACP countries and mandated territory representatives for OCTs. More!

Useful links:

European Development Fund	European Commission website
EuropeAid Co-Operation Office	DG Development

Cooperation for Development between SPC and the EC

The Secretariat has been chosen by the EU as the implementing agency for three EDF-funded projects in the Pacific region. In carrying out these projects the Secretariat is working in close cooperation with the governments of its member countries and territories. The Secretariat also include its partner organisations of the Council of Regional Organisations in the Pacific (CROP).

NOTA BENE: The EDF is funded by direct contributions from EC member states. Two of these countries, France and UK, are members of the Pacific Community and significant traditional donors of the Secretariat.

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