The Pacific Regional Digital Strategy is an initiative under the Pacific Plan to promote economic growth, sustainable development, good governance and security in Forum Countries. The Strategy establishes the following priorities...
Globally, the maritime sector is male-dominated and in many places it does not provide a safe environment for women or equal opportunities for their empowerment. Two per cent of international seafarers are women and, despite progress made in the last two decades, particularly under the International Maritime Organization (IMO) framework, more needs to be done for this sector to contribute to achieving Sustainable Development Goal 5 (SDG 5): Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls
Considerable studies were conducted in recent years with the aim of improving the resilience of infrastructure to disasters in the Pacific region which is increasingly prone to extreme weather events
Pacific island ecosystems make up one of the worlds biodiversity hotspots, with high levels of endemism. However, Pacific islands areparticularly vulnerable to invasive species; because of their isolation and relatively recent human occupation, native species have not evolved to cope with the impacts of predators, herbivores...
The PRISMSS is a regional mechanism, which facilitates the scaling up of invasive species management in the Pacific. It provides management support for on the groud invasive species actions
The Oceania region is very prone to natural disasters having experienced two Category 5 cyclones in as many years; Tropical Cyclone (TC)Pam struck Vanuatu on 13 March 2015 and TC Winston struck Fiji on 20 February 2016.
This first report from the study team uses results from visits to 13 of the 15 NMHSs and the survey completed by 14 of the countries during June 2018 to examine the feasibility of a Pacific based WMO regional training centre.
SPREPs Environmental and Monitoring Governance (EMG) Programme convened a regional meeting for participants to review the successes of the ACPMEA Project Phase 2, discuss and share experiences in implementing the ACPMEA project, and establish clear linkages to the Inform project.
The Nagoya Protocol on access to genetic resources and the fair and equitable sharing of benefits arising from their utilization to the convention on biological diversity, also known as the Nagoya Protocol...