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Peer reviews add value to current processes
Monday, 2 May 2011, 11:01 am | Pacific Islands Forum
Peer reviews under the Cairns Compact on strengthening development coordination in the Pacific are an opportunity for peers from other Forum island countries (FICs) to add value to current processes established in the FIC that has volunteered to ... More >>
Vanuatu congratulated for undergoing peer review
Wednesday, 20 April 2011, 1:01 pm | Pacific Islands Forum
Vanuatu is the first of the larger Forum Island Countries (FICs) to participate in a peer review under the Cairns Compact on strengthening development coordination in the Pacific endorsed by Forum Leaders in August 2009. More >>
Peer review of development coordination underway in Vanuatu
Monday, 18 April 2011, 12:31 pm | Pacific Islands Forum
A team of government officials from neighbouring Pacific countries is currently in Port Vila to assess the country’s development coordination and links to national planning and budgeting mechanisms. More >>
Civil Society Organisations’ Dialogue will be held today
Friday, 25 March 2011, 10:19 am | Pacific Islands Forum
Recognising the important role of civil society in national development and regional affairs, the 2009 Forum Regional Security Committee endorsed the PIFS-CSO Dialogue as the mechanism to provide a structured approach to strengthen engagement between ... More >>
Pacific Islands Forum launches 40th anniversary
Friday, 11 March 2011, 3:35 pm | Pacific Islands Forum
The Pacific Islands Forum has launched its 40th anniversary by seeking insight into “Pacific Regionalism: Past, Present and Future”. More >>
Young Professional - Economic Reform
Tuesday, 8 March 2011, 4:50 pm | Pacific Islands Forum
In 2007, the Pacific Islands Forum Secretariat implemented the Young Professionals programme, in recognition of the need to foster the development of young people with policy skills, scale up human resources, and strengthen policy mandates and the associated ... More >>
Forum to move beyond basic education for girls
Tuesday, 8 March 2011, 11:12 am | Pacific Islands Forum
In a statement to mark the 100th anniversary celebration of International Women’s Day on 8th March 2011, the Secretary General of the Pacific Islands Forum Secretariat, Tuiloma Neroni Slade says “Pacific women and girls deserve not only equal access ... More >>
Pacific Islands Forum 40th Anniversary Leaders’ Lectures
Friday, 4 March 2011, 10:45 am | Pacific Islands Forum
Keynote Address by Honourable Meltek Sato Kilman Livtuvanu Prime Minister of Vanuatu and Chair of the Pacific Islands Forum More >>
Aid for Trade achievements of PICs
Thursday, 3 March 2011, 3:08 pm | Pacific Islands Forum
The Aid for Trade achievements of Pacific island countries were featured at the World Trade Organization’s Workshop on Small, Vulnerable Economies on 17 February 2011 in Geneva, Switzerland. More >>
Regional workshop discusses Cairns Compact implementation pr
Tuesday, 22 February 2011, 4:09 pm | Pacific Islands Forum
The second regional workshop on the Cairns Compact on Strengthening Development Coordination has opened in Nadi, Fiji with a call for more guidance and direction to the Forum Secretariat in coordinating the region’s collective efforts to progress the implementation ... More >>
Resilience In The Pacific
Monday, 21 February 2011, 12:01 pm | Pacific Islands Forum
It is a privilege, always, to be in the Capital, the city of my own beginnings, and I want to thank the Institute of Policy Studies and the New Zealand Institute of International Affairs for their kind invitation and the opportunity to play a part ... More >>
FSM adopts comprehensive trade policy
Sunday, 20 February 2011, 7:51 pm | Pacific Islands Forum
The Secretary General of the Pacific Islands Forum Secretariat, Tuiloma Neroni Slade has congratulated the Congress of the Federated States of Micronesia (FSM) for adopting a ground-breaking National Comprehensive Trade Policy. More >>
Trade Ministers reconfirm commitment to PICTA
Wednesday, 16 February 2011, 10:30 am | Pacific Islands Forum
Pacific ACP Trade Ministers have reconfirmed their commitment to the Pacific Island Countries Trade Agreement (PICTA) . At their meeting held earlier this month in Apia, Samoa, Ministers committed to advancing a range of initiatives currently in place ... More >>
Meeting Of The Forum Ministerial Contact Group On Fiji
Monday, 14 February 2011, 4:55 pm | Pacific Islands Forum
The Fourth meeting of the Pacific Islands Forum Ministerial Contact Group (MCG) on Fiji met at the Vanuatu Reserve Bank Conference Room in Port Vila, Vanuatu. More >>
Tongan Minister 'Akolo new Pacific ACP Lead Spokesperson
Monday, 7 February 2011, 3:25 pm | Pacific Islands Forum
Tonga’s Minister for Labour, Commerce and Industries, Honourable Lisiate 'Aloveita 'Akolo is Lead Spokesperson for Pacific ACP States’ negotiations with the European Union (EU) on a comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA). Minister ‘Akolo ... More >>
Japan funding to increase foreign investment/private sector
Friday, 4 February 2011, 4:05 pm | Pacific Islands Forum
The Government of Japan will contribute US$200,000 to the Pacific Islands Forum Secretariat for two regional projects that support economic development in the region. The contribution is part of Japan’s annual support to the activities of the Forum Secretariat. The ... More >>
Work intensifies in preparation for EPA negotiations
Friday, 4 February 2011, 2:49 pm | Pacific Islands Forum
The Pacific ACP region is not alone in its struggle to negotiate a comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) with the European Union (EU). “On the international stage, ACP-EU Economic Partnership Agreement negotiations have reached a stalemate ... More >>
Secretary General urges Pacific ACP States to unify
Friday, 4 February 2011, 11:06 am | Pacific Islands Forum
The Secretary General of the Pacific Islands Forum Secretariat today urged Pacific ACP States to unite for strength in the international arena. “I have no doubt in my mind that we, Pacific islanders, have the resilience to make this work,” said ... More >>
Pacific Region Pushes for Renewed impetus for EPA with EU
Tuesday, 1 February 2011, 11:34 am | Pacific Islands Forum
The Pacific region’s top trade officials, experts and Ministers gather this week in Apia, Samoa, to deliberate on key issues surrounding negotiations with the European Union on a fair and comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA). Today Pacific ... More >>
PIFS appoints new Young Professionals
Tuesday, 1 February 2011, 9:34 am | Pacific Islands Forum
A new group of five young people from member countries of the Pacific Islands Forum have been placed in the various Programmes of the Pacific Islands Forum Secretariat in Suva, Fiji under the Young Professionals Scheme. The Young Professional Scheme, ... More >>
