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Humanitarian Warehouse To Strengthen Disaster Preparedness In Kiribati
Friday, 29 November 2024, 9:30 pm | Pacific Community - SPC
The facility, to be built under the leadership of the National Disaster Management Office (NDMO) within the Office of the President, is a response to the call for action made by Pacific Leaders during the first Pacific Ministerial Conference on Disaster ... More >>
Collaborative Maritime Framework Set to Transform Pacific Island Maritime Sector
Tuesday, 23 April 2024, 1:12 pm | Pacific Community - SPC
Responding to a request from Pacific Transport ministers, the Pacific Community (SPC) has convened a meeting with Heads of Maritime from 15 PICTs in Nadi this week. More >>
Call For Pacific Cooperation To Manage Biosecurity Risks And Ensure A ‘Safe And Green’ Pacific Games
Tuesday, 14 March 2023, 7:39 pm | Pacific Community - SPC
14 March, 2023 Nadi, Fiji - Pacific Community (SPC), the Pacific Plant Protection Organisation (PPPO) and Biosecurity Solomon Islands (BSI), have urged Pacific countries to ensure biosecurity travel precautions for the Pacific Games are being met to prevent ... More >>
Pacific Week Of Agriculture & Forestry: The Pacific Kava Sector Anticipates Export Growth And Eyes Major Global Markets.
Thursday, 9 March 2023, 7:44 pm | Pacific Community - SPC
Pacific kava is in high demand, after the opening of Australian markets to commercial imports, raising hopes for increased interest across other global markets in Asia, North America, and the European Union. Pacific kava exporters and farmers showcased ... More >>
Pacific Governments And Partners Convene To Strengthen Disaster Risk Reduction In Agriculture
Tuesday, 15 November 2022, 6:06 pm | Pacific Community - SPC
14 November 2022 Suva, Fiji – Representatives from Government, the private sector, as well as development partners, from Fiji, Samoa, Tonga, and Vanuatu met last week for an urgent review of risk reduction strategies in the face of increasing disaster ... More >>
New Poultry Units To Boost Samoa Livestock Industry
Wednesday, 13 October 2021, 8:05 am | Pacific Community - SPC
Five new poultry farming units have been opened in Samoa as part of the island nation’s ongoing efforts to reduce reliance on imported meat. The units were constructed as part of the Pacific Regional Integrated Food and Security Initiative to COVID-19 ... More >>
SPC Supports FSM To Access USD 16.6 Million From The Green Climate Fund For Urgent Climate Action
Saturday, 9 October 2021, 6:38 am | Pacific Community - SPC
8 October 2021 Noumea, New Caledonia – The Pacific Community (SPC) today signed a funding agreement for its first full-sized project financed by the Green Climate Fund (GCF) to support the Federated States of Micronesia (FSM) in the implementation ... More >>
Bolstering Food Security In Marshall Islands
Friday, 13 August 2021, 3:58 pm | Pacific Community - SPC
Forty schoolteachers and principals in the Republic of Marshall Islands (RMI) completed a five-day workshop last month equipping schools to play a key role in strengthening the food security efforts in the country. The participants of this workshop, who ... More >>
Seeds Bring New Life To Vanuatu's Agriculture Sector
Monday, 7 June 2021, 4:22 pm | Pacific Community - SPC
Photo Credit: Vanuatu Department of Agriculture and Rural Development. Timely access to affordable seeds for farmers in Vanuatu will now be available after the Vanuatu Seed Systems Strategy Validation Workshop, facilitated by the Pacific Community (SPC), ... More >>
Expanding Connection To Science For The Pacific Fisheries People
Friday, 4 June 2021, 5:02 pm | Pacific Community - SPC
Photo Credit: P. Bosserelle, SPC Over one hundred participants from twenty-two Pacific island countries and territories met this week at the thirteenth SPC Heads of Fisheries meeting, focusing on important topics and fisheries priorities for Pacific people. ... More >>
Pacific Regional MPs meet in Vanuatu
Monday, 4 November 2019, 7:18 pm | Pacific Community - SPC
4 November, Port Vila – The Pacific Community’s Regional Rights Resource Team (SPC RRRT) will facilitate a three-day dialogue with Pacific Members of Parliament from 5 – 7 November at Ramada Resort on human rights, good governance and development. More >>
Sharing Pacific Perspectives on Climate Change
Wednesday, 26 June 2019, 2:06 pm | Pacific Community - SPC
Sigatoka, Fiji - Climate change and disaster risk finance is crucial to addressing climate change, the greatest single threat to the livelihoods, security and well-being of the Pacific. As such, a gathering on climate change and disaster risk finance ... More >>
Pacific Partnership to End Violence Against Women and Girls
Tuesday, 25 June 2019, 2:09 pm | Pacific Community - SPC
Tarawa, Kiribati –Kiribati launched the Pacific Partnership to End Violence Against Women and Girls (Pacific Partnership) programme and revealed that selected schools across the country will be involved in a survey in the coming weeks. More >>
Pacific human rights delegation to UK, Geneva
Wednesday, 19 June 2019, 1:19 pm | Pacific Community - SPC
17 June, Suva - Staff from Pacific National Human Rights Institutions (NHRI) are embarking on an opportunity to build their capacity thanks to a Study Tour and Exchange to the UK and the Human Rights Council in Geneva from 17 – 26 June 2019. More >>
Integrating Gender and Human Rights-based Approaches
Friday, 7 June 2019, 10:31 am | Pacific Community - SPC
Suva, Fiji – A workshop to integrate gender and human rights-based approaches and review performance indictors in the fisheries sector was held in Suva this week, coinciding with #WorldOceansDay and its “Oceans and Gender” theme, being celebrated ... More >>
Global Climate Change Alliance Plus - Meeting in Fiji
Thursday, 7 March 2019, 1:27 pm | Pacific Community - SPC
Delegates from ten Pacific Island countries are gathering in Suva, Fiji this week for the inception and planning meeting of the Global Climate Change Alliance Plus - Scaling up Pacific Adaptation (GCCA+ SUPA) project. More >>
Launch of the Pacific-European Union Marine Partnership
Wednesday, 14 November 2018, 1:26 pm | Pacific Community - SPC
The Pacific-European Union Marine Partnership Programme has been designed to address some of the most serious challenges faced by the Pacific Islands region. Among these are the increasing depletion of coastal fisheries resources; the threats to marine ... More >>
Regional working group to address domestic violence
Friday, 26 October 2018, 1:33 pm | Pacific Community - SPC
Nadi, Fiji – Representatives from eleven Pacific countries have agreed to establish a regional working group to help address domestic violence issues. This agreement was a key result from a regional consultation made up of senior civil servants responsible ... More >>
Pacific Sea Level & Geodetic Monitoring Facility
Thursday, 11 October 2018, 1:14 pm | Pacific Community - SPC
What: The official commissioning of a new Sea Level & Geodetic Monitoring station (tide gauge plus additional instruments) installed by the Australian Bureau of Meteorology, Geoscience Australia, the Pacific Community (SPC) and the Government of the Kingdom ... More >>
Tonga exploring cheaper and sustainable electricity
Tuesday, 25 September 2018, 1:06 pm | Pacific Community - SPC
Nuku’alofa, Tonga – Biogas generation using agriculture and animal products has promising potential for Tonga and the Pacific Islands, if pursued through a well-defined circular economy strategy. This was the conclusion of a 4 day visit jointly organised ... More >>
