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Helping Promote Renewable Energy in Fiji Islands

The Asian Development Bank has approved $650,000 in technical assistance project to help the Fiji Islands prepare a project that will expand the Fiji Electricity Authority's (FEA's) program for renewable and indigenous resources, and to upgrade FEA's transmission and distribution networks. The technical assistance will also assess FEA's financial performance, analyze the "climate-proofing" of the proposed project to withstand extreme climate events, and assess the possibility of using the clean development mechanism for the project.

http://www.adb.org/Media/Articles/2006/9393-Fiji-Islands-power/

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Programme Experiences: Puppets for Health Education - South Pacific

In 2003, Gary Friedman Productions launched a programme using puppetry to look at sexually transmitted infections (STIs), HIV/AIDS, and other sensitive health problems and to nurture understanding and acceptance of these messages within diverse populations in Fiji. The programme uses face-to-face encounters to provide existing and potential puppeteers with the necessary skills to empower community and peer-group educators to reach out to their communities with specific performances and workshops. The medium of puppetry reaches out across educational barriers and communicates to people using their own language and customs. (Communication Initiative)

http://www.comminit.com/experiences/pds22004/experiences-510.html

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Economic and Social Survey of Asia and the Pacific 2005

UNESCO, 2005. The 2005 survey details both economic and social trends in the region, noting the impact of both unexpected events like the tsunami disaster and bird flu and continuing challenges such as persistent high oil prices, a flat US dollar and an ageing population.

http://unp.un.org/details.aspx?entry=E05ESS&title=Economic+and+Social+Survey+of+Asia+and+the+Pacific+2005

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South Pacific Business Development

SPBD's mission is to improve the quality of life of people living in poverty in the poor island nations of the South Pacific, at first focusing on Samoa. A solution to the poverty caused by poverty of opportunity is to provide the poor with the opportunity to establish their own businesses. The poor however most often do not have the capital necessary to buy the equipment needed to successfully start a small business. SPBD is committed to making "the entrepreneurial solution" viable to any poor women in Samoa. SPBD provides small, unsecured loans to groups of rural women. Women invest their loans into businesses based on their existing livelihood skills.

http://www.spbd.ws/

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'Impact aid' for Pacific compact boosted to $30M

(Honolulu Advertiser) By B.J. Reyes, Associated Press, December 18, 2003. President Bush signed legislation yesterday that renews partnership agreements with two Pacific island nations and provides $30 million to Hawai'i and three U.S. territories to offset the costs of providing for immigrants from those countries, officials said. The legislation extends for 20 years the agreements, known as Compacts of Free Association, with the Republic of the Marshall Islands and the Federated States of Micronesia.

http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/2003/Dec/18/ln/ln01a.html

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1The Pacific Development Directory (PDD)

The Pacific Development Directory provides details of agencies and organisations working on development projects in the Pacific. It lists more than 1050 organisations from 45 countries. It will inform you about avenues of assistance to Pacific island countries, enable interaction between agencies and assist in coordination and management of development programmes.

http://www.dev-zone.org/pdd/

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A Commentary on Helen Hughes' Aid Has Failed the Pacific, by Claire Slatter

A commentary on the report "Aid Has Failed the Pacific", by academic Claire Slatter, who is based at the Department of History/Politics, University of the South Pacific.

http://www.dev-zone.org/kcdocs/5938slatter.html

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A Pacific Strategy for the New Millennium

The Asian Development Bank's new Pacific strategy, will focus on helping Pacific developing countries streamline their public sectors and boost private sector investment. "Our next phase of reform support will concentrate on public sector efficiencies and promoting the private sector. These are critical areas which will create more jobs and raise incomes and the quality of life," says ADB's co-manager of Pacific operations, Cedric Saldanha. He notes that the first phase of reforms in the 1990s focused on macroeconomic stability and good governance, following the fiscal crises many countries faced in the early 1990s.

http://www.adb.org/Documents/Policies/Pacific_Strategy/

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A Toolkit for Pacific Youth: Localising the MDGs

This is the first Pacific specific MDG action toolkit aiming to empower the many youth in the region. The toolkit contains general information about what are Millennium Development Goals, why they were initiated and evidence to the progression of these Goals in the Pacific. It also focuses and mainly contains solutions and steps that Youth in the Pacific can take to achieve these Goals in their community. (Youth for a Sustainable Future Pacifika, August 2006)

http://www.peacechild.org/YSF/toolkit.htm

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ADB Pacific Strategy 2005-2009 - Responding to the Priorities of the Poor

ADB is currently preparing a new strategy to guide its operations in the Pacific. ADB is consulting widely and early in the process, and invites comments on our Discussion Paper. This third ADB Pacific Strategy is being formulated in the context of generally disappointing development performance in the Pacific in the past decade. This discussion paper sets out ideas on policies and approaches that will respond to the priorities of the poor. It also provides a list of possible questions on which we seek discussion and comment.

http://www.adb.org/Documents/Policies/Pacific_Strategy/pcfstrat2005-09.asp

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Aid has Failed the Pacific (PDF)

By Prof. Helen Hughes for the Sydney-based free enterprise lobby-group, The Centre for Independent Studies. 7 May 2003 Issue Analysis 33. Since 1970 the Pacific has received A$100 billion in aid. However for most people, life is no better than it was 25 years ago. Redistribution has been from the poor to the rich and small elites have appropriated the benefits of what little growth there has been. Far from helping the Pacific to grow, aid has damaged it and Australian policy makers will have to change aid policies accordingly if they are to combine compassion with effective economic policy.

http://www.cis.org.au/IssueAnalysis/ia33/ia33.pdf

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AID/WATCH: Australian aid budget puts governance before sustenance

By Tim O'Connor, 2004-05-12. The Federal Government handed down the 2004/05 budget last night and the news is not good for Australian aid recipients. Instead of focusing on providing basic services the aid budget gives huge funding allowances to Australian government departemnts in the name of 'governance'.

http://www.aidwatch.org.au/index.php?current=4&display=aw00577&display_item=1

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Aiding or Abetting? Dilemmas of foreign aid and political instability in the Melanesian Pacific

International Institute for Sustainable Development, by Oli Brown, March 2005. "Since independence, the self-governing nations of Melanesia - Papua New Guinea (PNG), the Solomon Islands, Fiji and Vanuatu - have been the recipients of a steady flow of foreign aid. Between 1995 and 1999 average per capita aid to Melanesia was US$73, three times that to Sub-Saharan Africa and 35 times aid to India. Yet aid in Melanesia seems to be failing to achieve many of its goals. The Melanesian countries are amongst the poorest in the Pacific. There is considerable inequality of wealth and power, governments often fail to provide even basic services and corruption is rife. In recent years the Melanesian Pacific has experienced civil war, coups and political instability. Previously considered relatively secure, Melanesia has become known as an 'arc of instability'." (Abstract)

http://www.iisd.org/pdf/2005/security_aiding_or_abetting.pdf

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Asia and the Pacific into the 21st Century:Prospects for Social Development

The study reviews the progress in social development in the region, and identifies priority issues requiring attention.

http://www.unescap.org/esid/psis/publications/theme1998/

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Asia-Pacific Development Information Programme

The Asia-Pacific Development Information Programme (APDIP) is an initiative of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) that aims to promote the development and application of new Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) for poverty alleviation and sustainable human development in the Asia-Pacific region. It does so through three core programme areas, namely: Policy Development and Dialogue, Access, Content Development and Knowledge Management APDIP delivers on its objectives through activities that involve awareness raising and advocacy, building capacities, promoting ICT policies and dialogue, promoting equitable access to tools and technologies, knowledge sharing, and networking. Strategic public-private sector partnerships and opportunities for technical cooperation among developing countries (TCDC) are the key building blocks in implementing each programme activity.

http://www.apdip.net

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Asia-Pacific in Figures 2000

This is the electronic version of the 2000 edition of Asia-Pacific in Figures published by the ESCAP secretariat. Data are available for all 57 regional members and associate membersof ESCAP. They were posted on 13 June 2001. " Site contents: HTML and Excel files with socio-economic statistics for: American Samoa, Australia, Cook Islands, Fiji, French Polynesia, Guam, Kiribati, Marshall Islands, Federated States of Micronesia, Nauru, New Caledonia, New Zealand, Niue, Northern Mariana Islands, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tonga, Tuvalu, and Vanuatu. Also it includes statistics for a number Asian countries.

http://www.unescap.org/publications/detail.asp?id=741

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Asian Development Bank Pacific Studies Series

ADB publishes this series to provide the governments of its Pacific developing member countries with analyses of economic and other issues. The studies are also expected to shed light on the problems facing governments and people in the Pacific islands, and to suggest development strategies that combine both political and technical feasibility.

http://www.adb.org/documents/books/Pacific_Studies/default.asp

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Asian Development Fund

The Asian Development Fund (ADF) is a special fund og the Asian Development Bank. The ADF helps reduce poverty and improve the quality of life for poor people throughout Asia and the Pacific. ADF has since 1973, been a major instrument of concessional financing in support of equitable and sustainable development for the region.

http://www.adb.org/ADF/default.asp

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AusAID: Pacific 2020

The Pacific 2020 project is part of Australia's commitment to support broad-based economic growth in the Pacific, an important element in reducing poverty and achieving sustainable development in the region. The main component of Pacific 2020 is a report (in preparation) that will examine practical policy choices for stimulating sustainable and widely shared economic growth in the Pacific, Papua New Guinea and East Timor. The background papers (available on this webpage) to Pacific 2020 provide the framework and content for the final Pacific 2020 report. They are also useful in their own right as they present a separate analysis of the nine policy areas covered by Pacific 2020.

http://www.ausaid.gov.au/hottopics/topic.cfm?ID=4696_2977_1016_710_2650

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AusAID: Why our Aid to the Pacific is so Important

Published 15 May 2003. Papua New Guinea and the countries of the South Pacific are some of Australia's most important development partners. While it is true that many countries in the Pacific are experiencing problems, critics of Australia's aid program fail to acknowledge that without our on-going assistance the situation would be far worse.

http://www.ausaid.gov.au/hottopics/topic.cfm?Id=2157_7967_5228_415_6958

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Australia's International Development Cooperation, 2004-2005 [Budget]

AusAID. Documents on Australia's International Development Cooperation Budget for 2004-2005 are available on this webpage.

http://www.ausaid.gov.au/budget04/default.cfm

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Canadian Foreign Policy Aid in the Pacific

Pacific Peoples Partnership, February 03, 2004. "The small island nations of the South Pacific continue to be among the poorest, most highly militarized, least economically and democratically secure in the world, and for many years PPP has been advocating that this reality be reflected in the priorities and goals of Canadian foreign policy and aid. While Canadians have long been concerned about investing in the development of the South Pacific, the Canadian government is still challenged in providing concrete aid and humanitarian relief to the Pacific island regions that would most benefit from foreign aid ... In 2004, however, CIDA announced the elimination of its bilateral assistance programme to the South Pacific ..."

http://www.pacificpeoplespartnership.org/archives/000008.html

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Carving Out - Development in the Pacific

This 13 part multimedia series takes the pulse of the Pacific. In 'Carving Out' Pacific Islanders talk about cultural identity, health, education and the state of their environment, voicing their practical solutions to the big questions affecting the Pacific. Produced by Radio Australia in English and Tok Pisin.

http://www.abc.net.au/ra/carvingout

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Economic and Social Survey of Asia and the Pacific 2003 (PDF)

UNESCAP, April 2003. Although the global economy lost momentum in 2002 in the face of weak investment activity in the private sector compounded by mounting geopolitical uncertainties, the UNESCAP region remained largely unaffected. However, in the face of continued global uncertainty such as war and health concerns, the picture is none too optimistic for 2003. "Asia-Pacific Economies: Resilience in Challenging Times" is the theme of this year's Economic and Social Survey of Asia and the Pacific. Some of the Survey's highlights: ---Developing economies of the region exceeded 2001 GDP growth by nearly 2 percentage points in 2002. Developed economies of the region also improved upon their 2001 performance in 2002, although Japan remained in recession. ---Over the region as a whole, inflation declined further in 2002 from an already low level in 2001. Higher GDP growth in the region was achieved partly through easier domestic monetary and fiscal policies and partly through higher intraregional trade flows. Along with the economic and social challenges facing the region, Governments also have to deal with environmental problems and the environment-poverty nexus.

http://www.unescap.org/pdd/publications/survey2003/index.asp

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Economic and Social Survey of Asia and the Pacific 2008

Chronic neglect of the agricultural sector in Asia and the Pacific is condemning 218 million people to continuing extreme poverty, and widening the gap between the region's rich and poor, according to this United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) report. The sharp rises of food prices - which hit the poor the hardest - have simply reinforced the message. (ESCAP, 27 March 2008)

http://www.unescap.org/survey2008/

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