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Specific attention is given to laws that facilitate community involvement. This is because the ToR note that "the principal focus of the IW Programme is community-based activities
associated with the conservation and preservation of freshwater, community-based waste management and the sustainable use of coastal resources". The village inspired by-laws under
the Fisheries Act are an illustration of this approach being adopted in another context. The Internal Affairs Act and the Village Fono Act both make relevant provision in this regard.

The Pacific Island region's coastal fisheries produce a little over 100,000 tonnes offish and seafood products per year. They are very significant in providing food, income and jobs for Pacific Islanders, and further contribute to Pacific Island economies through import substitution and generation of

Domestic contributions dominate the relatively mi-industrialized Pacific Region. Domestic wastewater disposal (or sewerage) and disposal of domestic solid waste remain critical issues for the region. In most areas the current management of these results is not sufficient to prevent deleterious effects on public

Most of the homes are built with imported timber and concrete with roofs made out of corrugated tin. Most of the homes are of basic design with an average 2.2 rooms. Majority of the
homes surveyed appeared to be in very poor condition. About half the households have common household appliances, such as fans, refrigerators, kerosene stoves and radios, but it is not
indicative of affluence. Many still continue to cook outdoors using fire pits and wash clothes in basins.

IWP-Pacific Technical Report (International Waters Project) no.15

The Preliminary Socio-Economic Baseline Study and Waste Stream Analysis of Bikenibeu West ward on South Tarawa atoll in the Republic of Kiribati is part of a regional programmeby the IWP to devisea suitable design of community-based waste pilot projects 111 the PSIDS. The demonstration projects are to show that there are viable, low cost alternatives that can be implementedat the community levelfor the management

The framework for management of the ocean and coasts of the Pacific Islands region has been evolving since the early 1970s when Pacific Island countries played a significant role in the

This report summarises the recommendations for site selection of the IWP pilot project site and priority areas of activities. Tins is based on the findings of the participatory' situation analysis (PSA) completed in the latter half of 2002 (refer to Participatory Situation Analysis: Summary Report of Village
Consultations in Niue) and analysis of site options discussed in the April 2003 at a National Forum.

Originally written in 2003|Electronic copy kept at FL field

Call Number: 307.14099618 SUM

ISBN/ISSN: 982-04-0277-8

The IW is one of the four focal areas of the Global Environment Facility (GEF). The GEF was created in 1994 to provide funding for programs and projects to achieve global environment benefits in four focal areas: biodiversity, climate change, international waters, and ozone layer depletion, as well as land degradation as it relates to these focal areas.

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Call Number: 333.714 COO [EL]

ISBN/ISSN: 982-04-0274-3

Physical Description: 55 p. ; 29 cm

In October 1995 the 8th Pacific Regional Environment Programme meeting endorsed a proposal to prepare a Strategic Action Programme for International Waters. At the request of the South Pacific Forum the development of the proposal was coordinated by the South Pacific Regional Environment Programme (renamed the Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme, or SRPEP). Throughout 1997 the Strategic Action Programme was
formulated with funding assistance provided by the Global Environment Facility (GEF).

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Sewage is used water, or the "waste water" that comes from the toilet, or from household cleaning activities such as dishwashing, clothes washing, cleaning the house, or cleaning a
boat or motorbike. Waste water can be harmful to the environment and to your health. It is harmful to the environment because it can contain high levels of nutrients (from faeces, urine, detergents) and other chemicals. It is harmful to your health because it can contain disease-causing organisms called pathogens.

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Call Number: 363.729 4 CRE (EL)

In 2002, implementation of the coastal component of the Strategic Action Programme for the International Waters of the Pacific Islands Region (IWP) commenced in Nine. Nine's
component of the IWP involves the design and implementation of a pilot project that will address sustainable resource use and conservation issues related to coastal fisheries management.
To facilitate the IWP in Niue, the Government of Niue, through the Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry (DAFF), and the IWP Project Coordination Unit based at the SPREP in

Under the International Waters Project (IWP) in Tuvalu, a pilot project was established to address "waste" with the aim of reducing the contamination of groundwater and coastal water by human and animal waste. Community-based activities included "low-tech" solutions to addressing environmental degradation while national level activities involved activities with a more strategic institutional focus. A Communications and Sanitation Training Programme was designed to investigate the

Vanuatu was first visited by Europeans in the early 17th century. James Cook explored the islands in 1774, giving them the name "New Hebrides", which lasted until independence on 30 July 1980. The first European settler was a cattle rancher who arrived in 1854. He was soon followed by cotton growers from Australia, and later by the French, who outnumbered the British three to one by the mid-1880s.

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Call Number: 338.3727 AMO (EL)

ISBN/ISSN: 978-982-04-0372-7

The IWP project team developed a written survey questionnaire in November 2004. Primrose Malosu (IWP Project Assistant) and Russell Nari (Deputy Director, Environment Unit) introduced the survey to volunteer facilitators who had earlier participated in preparation for and conduct of a Participatory Situation Analysis (Table 1). The survey team took the survey forms to their villages and conducted interviews during the first weeks of December 2004. The survey was conducted simultaneously with the mangrove and reef fish survey.

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An ecological baseline survey of the Amal/Crab Bay Tabu Eria (AKTE) was performed between November 2004 and May 2005. Resources were surveyed with the assistance of Community Facilitators (CFs), and under the direction of the AKTE Management Committee (MC); surveyed resources included land crabs, terrestrial flora, mangroves, avifauna,mammals, finfish, shellfish, turtles and dugongs. Available literature regarding these resources and their distrubution within Vanuatu was reviewed and summarised, and traditional and local knowledge documented, including vernacular names for resources.

The ability of a government to provide useful and appropriate services that support and guide sustainable coastal resources development, management, protection and conservation is determined largely by three factors: (1) the clarity of the institutional roles and mandates given to the various government agencies concerned, (2) the appropriateness of the structure created to fill those roles and carry out mandates, and (3) the human and other resources that are applied to the required tasks.

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Call Number: 333.917 17 MCC (EL)

Tonga's International Waters Project (IWP) designed a pilot project that included the active participation of the people of Nukuhetulu as well as other stakeholders. The pilot project aimed to address the current priority environmental concern for Tonga, which is the "degradation of marine and freshwater quality". Pilot activities focused on community-based waste reduction, and were supplemented by the improvement of fresh water quality.

Sustainable costal fisheries are the prime focal area for Niue IWP, and are being addressed through a pilot project in the adjacent villages of Alofi North and Makefu, on the island's west coast. Along with other villages, these two identified the problems associated with their use of the coastal fishery and the results were published in a report "Participatory Situation Analysis: Summary Report of Village Consultations in Niue " (Niue IWP 2003). As with other Pacific Islands. Niue’s people feel their coastal waters are not as productive as they were in former years.

One of the most critical factors influencing the success of the IWP pilot projects has been the choice of sites. Communities that choose to be involved in the project were committed to the

Generally, the introduction to community monitoring commenced with a brief presentation of the concepts and use of monitoring data (see Appendix 3 for an outline of the presentation material), which led into the proposed methods that would be used in the demonstration in the pilot villages, focusing on the target species of concern that have been already identified