Consultancy Agreement for Progressing the Pacific Islands Conservation Trust Fund Initiative: Final Report

Abstract

The intention of the consultancy was to help SPREP advance the Pacific Islands Conservation Trust Initiative mainly through the organization and facilitation of a decision by the Trust Fund Steering Committee on the future of the regional trust fund initiative following discussions and findings of the Green and Hunnam report "Pacific Islands Conservation Trust: Long term support for community-based conservation in the Pacific island countries". The consultant was tasked with the organization of the meeting of the Steering Committee to decide on the future of the trust fund initiative based on the findings and recommendations from the Green and Hunnam report. The general feeling was that after seven years, five comprehensive reports and several meetings and workshops on the issue, it was now time to decide, one way or the other, on the future of this initiative. The Third Meeting of the Steering Committee that was organized under this consultancy had that as its main key output.