INTRODUCTION This volume is intended as a companion to Blue Pacific Continent, Volume I – Primer on Pacific Regional Climate Change Action. This reference book offers an overview of Pacific countries...
Micronesia + 20 more
Micronesia + 20 more
INTRODUCTION This volume is intended as a companion to Blue Pacific Continent, Volume I – Primer on Pacific Regional Climate Change Action. This reference book offers an overview of Pacific countries...
Micronesia + 20 more
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The “Blue Pacific Continent” is both a mindset and a geographic region. The Southwest Pacific Ocean is home to more than two dozen island states and territories that range in size...
World + 37 more
Executive summary The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic caught the world unprepared, revealing society’s vulnerabilities, systemic fragility and lack of resilience. In 2020, the Data, Strategy...
World + 15 more
Executive summary The 14 Pacific Island countries and territories covered by this multi-country strategic plan – Cook Islands, the Federated States of Micronesia, Fiji, Kiribati, Nauru, Niue, Palau,...
Fiji + 9 more
For Immediate Release Office of Press Relations press@usaid.gov Monday, August 14, 2023. Press Release Today while in Suva, Fiji, Administrator Samantha Power will announce additional investments as...
Tonga + 12 more
Commitment to expand World Bank support for health, education, social protection and climate-resilient infrastructure projects across the Pacific over next eight years SYDNEY, May 8, 2023 – The...
World + 41 more
ADB Operations Reach $20.5 Billion in 2022, Addressing Crises, Building Resilience MANILA, PHILIPPINES (24 April 2023) — The Asian Development Bank (ADB) committed $20.5 billion from its own...
Cook Islands + 14 more
Overview Through its interim Multi-Country Strategic Plan (iMCSP) 2019-2023, WFP prioritized close collaboration with national governments and communities across 15 Pacific Island Countries and...
Cambodia + 22 more
East Asia and Pacific Regional Growth to Accelerate as China Rebounds Slowing global growth, commodity prices, financial tightening to weigh in 2023 WASHINGTON, March 30, 2023 – Growth in developing...
Cook Islands + 9 more
Excerpt Joint situational analysis The Pacific Islands covered in this plan are spread across a vast and diverse region which represents more than 15 per cent of the earth’s surface. Largely made up...
Cook Islands + 13 more
Introduction The Pacific region is at a crossroads. The advancement of the Sustainable Development Goals aspirations across all sectors are facing the test of international solidarity. The Pacific...
Kiribati + 12 more
On September 28-29, 2022, during the first-ever U.S.- Pacific Island Country Summit hosted by President Biden, Secretary of State Blinken announced that the U.S. Agency for International Development...
Fiji + 11 more
CHAPTER 1 The shifting contours of the Pacific small island developing States (SIDS) disaster riskscape Blue Pacific 2050 Climate Change and Disasters Strategic pathways: Governance, Partnerships and...
American Samoa + 12 more
Pathways to Adaptation and Resilience in the Pacific analyses the Asia Pacific Disaster Report 2021 and showcases how the subregion is being affected by various risk parameters, and where new...
Fiji + 13 more
NEW PARAMETRIC MICROINSURANCE PRODUCTS LAUNCHED TO CUSHION IMPACT OF CLIMATE CHANGE IN FIJI The United Nations Capital Development Fund (UNCDF) has introduced two new parametric microinsurance...
World + 46 more
Summary for policymakers Asia Pacific Disaster Report 2022 for ESCAP Subregions: Summary for Policymakers builds on ESCAP’s Asia Pacific Disaster Report 2021, Asia and the Pacific SDG Progress Report...
World + 33 more
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Since the signing of the United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development in 2015, countries around the world have committed to equitable and inclusive development for girls...
Cook Islands + 11 more
MANILA, PHILIPPINES (30 June 2021) — The Asian Development Bank has generally endorsed a new 5-year strategy aimed at building resilience against economic shocks, delivering sustainable services, and...
World + 20 more
NADI, Fiji, 23 August, 2019: Parliamentarians from 20 Asian and Pacific nations delivered a clear message yesterday, naming the climate crisis as one of the region's most critical threats to human...
World + 13 more
The United States has long been committed to Pacific friends and neighbors in promoting a peaceful, free and open Indo-Pacific region. The United States is committed to the Pacific Islands’ future...