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Due to funding constraints it was decided that the pilot project would be located in the Central Province.When invitations were requested for expressions of interest to host the pilot project, the public in the Central Province was advised that those intending to apply should ensure the environmental issues in their respective villages are relevant to the focal areas and preferably in the same order of importance. Barakau was among the sixty villages that responded.

An assessment of the site was conducted on 6 December 2004 by Joe Aitaro and Ann and Clarence Kitalong of The Environment. Inc. (TEI). The TEI team conducted a qualitative and quantitative assessment within the waste disposal site and along the forest and river surrounding the site.The team identified and recorded flora and fauna found within and immediately adjacent to the site. At selected points the TEI team described the habitat, flora and fauna. The red dots on indicate reference points from this assessment.

This is a report on research conducted by the author under the auspices of research funding provided by The University of Adelaide and the International Waters Project (IWP)1 of the
Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environmental Programme (SPREP). The focus of the research project has been to examine how existing arrangements of and approaches to governance affect the management of coastal resources and environments in three South Pacific countries: Fiji, Vanuatu and the Solomon Islands. It is not a comparative study.

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The International Waters Project (IWP)1 is a 7-year, USD 12 million initiative concerned with management and conservation of marine, coastal and freshwater resources in the Pacific islands region, and is specifically intended to address the root causes of environmental degradation related to trans-boundary issues in the Pacific. The project includes two components: an integrated coastal and watershed management component, and an oceanic

During a review of the priority environmental concerns in Vanuatu (Tapisue et al. 2003) sustainable coastal fisheries were highlighted as an area for action under the IWP. IWP Vanuatu, in close consultation with the National Task Force, screened a number of potential communities to host the IWP pilot project. Coastal resource management has increasingly become a priority in many communities, but is sometimes hampered due to the
lack of cooperation within and among communities, often as a result of land boundary and village leadership disputes (Johannes and Hickey 2004)..

Before making a commitment to a given area, programs such as IWP must collect information on local institutions, community history, social and political structures, livelihood strategies
and opportunities for. and constraints to achieving program activities. This information provides insights that can help in dealing with specific local issues and in identifying key
issues, as well as factors for improved management of marine resources.

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Call Number: 333.784 4 KIN (EL)

ISBN/ISSN: 978-982-04-0355-0

This is a report on research conducted by the author under research funding provided by The University of Adelaide and the International Waters Project of the Secretariat of the Pacific
Regional Environmental Progrannne (SPREP).1 The focus of the research project has been to examine how existing arrangements of and approaches to governance affect the management
of coastal resources and environments in three Pacific countries: Fiji. Vanuatu and the Solomon Islands. It is not a comparative study; tins report focuses on Vanuatu.

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The stakeholders consultations held in February and April 2004 formed the preparatory phase for the subsequent 10-dav Training of Trainers Participatory Learning and Action (TOT-PLA) Workshop held 21 April-4 May 2004 at the Otintaai Hotel. The TOT-PL A workshop was facilitated by Simione Koto and Floyd Robinson of Partners In Community Development Fiji and Dr Natasha Stacey. IWP Community Assessment Specialist. The IWP-K model for
stakeholder engagement.

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This report on Tokelau has been prepared for the South Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP) and the Office for Tokelau Affairs (OTA) on the basis of the terms of reference set out in Annex I. It is written at a time of great administrative and organisational change for Tokelau. It also comes at a time of great environmental need and an increase in international environmental activities. On this scene Tokelau is a player with a great interest in and sympathy for the environment but with little or no law on environmental matters. The object of this

Our story begins on a lovely afternoon in Samoa. Lady Vini, a beautiful hawksbill turtle, had laid her eggs on the beach and was now looking for food in the coral reef. She had just found a tasty looking sea sponge when, all of a sudden, she felt herself
being pulled backwards in the water.

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Call Number: 597.92 LAD (EL)

ISBN/ISSN: 978-982-04-0377-2

Physical Description: 24 p. : ill. ; 21 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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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.