Location
SPREP LIBRARY
Publisher
University of Oregon
Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP)
Publication Year:
2012
Publication Place
Eugene
Physical Description:
15 p.
Call Number
[EL]
Collection
Material Type
Language
English
Record ID:
39738
Legacy PEIN ID:
79777
General Notes
Report prepared for SPREP
Available online
Subject Heading(s)
National Capacity - Samoa
Environment - Protection - Samoa
Environmental management - Samoa
Abstract
UNEP established the NCSA program with the goal of identifying country level priorities and needs for capacity building to address global environmental issues, in particular biological diversity, climate change, and land degradation, with the aim of catalyzing domestic and/ or externally assisted action to meet those needs in a coordinated and planned manner (http://www. unep.org/dgef/NCSAs/tabid/1900/language/en-US/Default.aspx). This report synthesizes NCSAs written between 2007 and 2010 from the following 10 governments: the Cook Islands, Fiji, Kiribati, Niue, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, the Solomon Islands, Tonga, and Vanuatu (see Appendix I; NCSAs were not available for other SPREP countries). The reports first section identifies the major themes that these NCSAs document with respect to vulnerabilities, sources of threats, and incapacities. The reports second section builds on this information to identify strategies that would assist national governments and SPREP in more effectively addressing the gaps that the NCSAs document. These strategies are intended to help SPREP use its unique institutional position and resources to facilitate member state efforts to remedy their incapacities, address their vulnerabilities, and enhance their ability to achieve their commitments under the Framework Convention on Climate Change, the Convention on Biological Diversity, and the Convention on Desertification. The strategies are intended to help SPREP, at the request of and in collaboration with national governments, develop policies and programs that can be usefully applied in all countries while respecting and reflecting the diverse situations of each.
Location
SPREP LIBRARY
Publisher
University of Oregon
Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP)
Publication Year:
2012
Publication Place
Eugene
Physical Description:
15 p.
Call Number
[EL]
Collection
Material Type
Language
English
Record ID:
39738
Legacy PEIN ID:
79777
General Notes
Report prepared for SPREP
Record Created: 18-Feb-2012
Record Modified: 23-Feb-2021