The Pacific Network for Environmental Assessment (PNEA) Portal is an initiative of the Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP) to support government officials from Pacific Island countries and territories who work with environmental impact assessment (EIA), strategic environmental assessment (SEA) as well as Environmental and Social Safeguards (ESS).
The portal complements SPREP’s current capacity building program for EIA and SEA - including the recently launched Regional EIA Guidelines, the Coastal Tourism EIA guidelines, and SEA guidelines.
Following captures noted announcement on tarriff adjustments effective 1st March 2019.
The graph below shows how Tonga Power Limited (TPL) was holding its tariff since 2017 to February 2019, whilst diesel fluctuates over the same period.
Source: Tonga Power Limited
The following captures the Tuvalu Electricity Corporation (TEC) annual electricity statistics from 2014 to 2017
Photos from the meeting....
Work is part of the SOPAC Regional assitance to the countries on wind advisory.
The USGS Earthquake Hazards Program of the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) is part of the National Earthquake Hazards Reduction Program (NEHRP) led by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST).
Resources for the SPREP Inform workshop in Samoa
Redlist species of Samoa as of 09/04/2019
The MACBIO project classify the entire marine environment within the MACBIO participating countries to inform, in particular, their national marine spatial and marine protected area planning efforts. The draft outputs are marine bioregions that include reef-associated and deepwater biodiversity assemblages with complete spatial coverage at a scale useful for national planning. Results for the Solomon Islands have been presented to the marine experts and government of the Solomon Islands for review.
"Comparison of the average hard coral cover between the three five-year periods comprising the last 15 years (2005-09, 2010-14, 2015-19, Tab. 9.3) indicated that there was a high degree of confidence (93%) in the long-term decline, despite the uncertainty in individual yearly estimates. Further, the vast majority (90%) of this decline occurred between 2010-14 and 2015-19, suggesting that the rate of decline in hard coral cover has accelerated during the last five years"
The amended Code of the Federated States of Micronesia states in section 104 that the exclusive economic zone is contiguous to the territorial sea. The inner boundary of the exclusive economic zone of each island or atoll is the seaward boundary of the territorial sea, and the outer boundary is a line, every point of which is two hundred nautical miles seaward of the nearest point on the baseline.
The Marine Zones (Declaration) Act 2011 repeals the Marine Zones (Declaration) Act 1983. It states that the territorial sea of Kiribati comprises those waters having, as their inner limits, the baseline of Kiribati and, as their outer limits, a line measured seaward from that baseline, every point of which is at a distance of twelve (12) nautical miles from the nearest point of the baseline.
The World Database on Protected Areas (WDPA) is the most comprehensive global database of marine and terrestrial protected areas, updated on a monthly basis, and is one of the key global biodiversity data sets being widely used by scientists, businesses, governments, International secretariats and others to inform planning, policy decisions and management. The WDPA is a joint project between UN Environment and the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN).
Savina Nongebatu, a disability inclusion and gender equality advocate in Solomon Islands and member of the Pacific Women Shaping Pacific Development advisory board, reflects on journey of the program. She shares what, in her view, have been the successes, challenges and work ahead to progress gender equality in the Pacific.
This interview was conducted as part of the production for the Pacific Women Legacy Video: https://youtu.be/NIXyH2L6BHA
Sokotia Kulene, Director of the Tuvalu Gender Affairs Department (GAD), reflects on the work of GAD and the role that the Pacific Women Shaping Pacific Development has played in supporting such work. He shares what, in his view, have been the successes, challenges and work ahead to progress gender equality in Tuvalu.
This interview was conducted as part of the production for the Pacific Women Legacy Video: https://youtu.be/NIXyH2L6BHA
What makes an effective gender transformative approach, especially in Papua New Guinea? Pacific Women Shaping Pacific Development shares learning from 10 years of programming as well as key elements of successful gender transformative change identified by partners in Papua New Guinea. This video is available both in English and Tok Pisin.
Anamalia Falemaka and Ursula Tai reflect on: what an empowered woman looks like; their role model for women’s empowerment; the barriers to empowerment they see; and their vision of empowerment The video was produced alongside ‘Working for Change’ for the Pacific Women Regional Learning Forum on Women's Economic Empowerment.
Asita Molotii started her professional life fixing transmitters and receivers. Today, she is ‘working where [her] interest lies’ as Director of the Gender Affairs Department of the Tuvalu Ministry of Health, Social Affairs and Gender.
Her hope for her country is to ensure that development reaches everyone.
Pulafagu Toiafa’s passion has guided her on a journey. She started as broadcaster, undertook studies in sociology, history and politics then worked in government. In 2004, the post of coordinator for the Tuvalu National Council of Women caught her eye. She applied and has been in the role since.
Petsyio Koau is Program Manager at the Tuvalu Family Health Association (TUFHA). She’s driven by the passion to raise awareness and empower women and youth as well as see TUFHA grow into a well-recognised organisation in Tuvalu.
She shared this video message from the inaugural Tuvalu National Women and Youth Forum, held from 9–13 December. The forum focused on many issues: ending violence against women and girls; advancing sexual and reproductive health and rights; and increasing women’s participation in leadership and ‘Falekaupule’ decision making roles.