Join us at #ICSW2017 on Tuesday, 5 December 2017 from 9am to noon, USP Laucala Campus, lecture room 014-026, for a discussion on the lived realities of nuclear-affected communities in the Pacific and the incredible resilience of indigenous people to those challenges
A two-day symposium will feature select presentations by USP staff on key issues relevant to the broader working theme of Oceania – our past, present and future focusing on heritage, Resilience & Sustainability through Education & the Arts.
What does a people-centred Blue Economy look like? That is the central question that will feature during a panel discussion on Thursday, 30 August 2018, facilitated by the European Union-funded civil society strengthening program, Raising Pacific Voices (RPV).
The Understanding Risk Finance Pacific forum will take place in Port Vila, Vanuatu, bringing together policymakers, financial risk managers, and development partners, from the region and around globe, to strengthen regional collaboration on climate and disaster risk finance in the Pacific.
Transport is the very lifeline of Pacific Islands societies. Across the region, the need for clean, affordable, appropriate and safe air, land and sea transport is essential for all socio-economic development and well-being. It affects every facet of connectivity — be it economic activity, government service delivery, disaster response, climate change adaption and mitigation. Transport
The Pacific Transport Forum was announced at the Climate Action Pacific Partnership Conference to help transform national transport sectors in the Pacific. The Forum will bring Ministers, senior officials, private sector representatives and partners together to discuss the future of the marine and land transport sectors in Pacific Island countries.
To mark the the 70 th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR), the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) Regional Office for the Pacific (ROP) together with partners, commemorates the day on which, in 1948, the United Nations General Assembly adopted the UDHR, proclaiming its principles as the “common standard of achievement for all peoples and all nations.”
The world’s most climate vulnerable nations are those most directly affected by #ClimateChange. Join the world's first #VirtualClimateSummit on 22 Nov & pledge greater #ClimateAmbition to #SurviveandThrive http://www.virtualclimatesummit.org #SetpUp2018 #Talanoa4Ambition
AOSIS Climate Change Fellowship Program
The 6th Pacific Regional Conference on Disability will look ahead to 2030 and what else needs to be done to ensure inclusiveness and equality of all persons with disabilities.
The peoples of Oceania have long understood and practiced their own sustainable initiatives in their island worlds. However, the World Bank and large nations have their own specific ideas about defining and promoting sustainability in the region which they have deemed the “Blue Economy.”
The President of the Republic of the Marshall Islands, HE Dr Hilda C. Heine, will convene the first conference of the Pacific Women Leaders' Coalition Conference (PWLC) and is encouraging women leaders from various fields to participate in the conference to raise the profile and build wider support for women's issues regionally and locally. This