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The Germ-Buster student workbook can be used by students independently at their own pace or with a teacher's guidance and teaches children about germs, where they are found and how to prevent them making us sick. Join Super Soap journey to destroy germs. Through various activities, such as quizzes, puzzles and song-writing, children learn about what hands do during the day, where germs live, how we pick them up, and how washing with soap in the morning, after handling rubbish and before we eat, we can stop the spread of disease and keep us healthy.

The Clean Hands, Good Toilet, Happy Family! guide borrows form the fields of health psychology and social marketing, as well as traditional health education activities, to promote owning an improved or new toilet and washing hands at critical times. The guide contains information on how to plan a campaign to get key messages across, and how to work with change agents, augmented by real-life examples taken from health promotions in the Pacific

Local communities in the Pacific have a high dependence on their natural resources for food and livelihoods. Managing small-scale fisheries resources through locally-managed marine areas (LMMAs) is an approach that has been scaled up to cover seventy-eight percent of inshore community fishing grounds in Fiji.

Fiji has demonstrated a strong commitment to cetacean conservation via national, regional and international plans and agreements. To provide baseline information in support of these efforts, this paper provides an updated listing of cetacean species found in Fijian waters and identifies locations where cetaceans have been noted on a consistent basis. Information for this review was sourced from peer-reviewed publications, field reports, historical whaling records, national consultations, anecdotal and opportunistic sources, as well as a national database held by the Fiji Government’s Department of Fisheries. Reliable and recent records were confirmed for 10 cetacean species in Fijian waters. In addition, less reliable records and regional species’ information provides support for the occurrence of at least 14 additional species or groups of similar-looking species that could not be identified more specifically. Thirteen hotspot areas within the Fiji Economic Exclusive Zone were preliminarily identified as being particularly important for cetaceans, including numerous sites within the Vatu-i-Ra and Lomaiviti passages and surrounding waters. Issues with the available data include uneven coverage, inherent biases within available sources, and difficulties with species identification and verification in some cases. Nevertheless, it is hoped that this review will provide a reference point from which to move forward with cetacean management and conservation efforts in Fiji.

This dissertation examines the relationship between contemporary development projects and the Fijian idea vanua which is commonly translated as “land” but entails meanings of people, community, and custom. Often treated as a rigid cosmological entity with its own cultural order, in this dissertation I argue that when viewed as an environmental framework in which historical actors and ideas are constantly moving in and out, vanua is actually flexible, open-ended, and has the capacity to interact and collaborate with contemporary development projects such as environmental conservation and commercial farming. This capacity is built from the entanglement of diverse historical forces (e.g. indigenous politics, pre-colonial capitalism, colonial policies) which still resonate in the environment today, and is able to affect the realization of the universal values (e.g. environmentalism, development) intended to be introduced. Here I use a small coastal village called Waitabu located on Taveuni Island as the ethnographic setting to demonstrate how these processes are played out.

Intended Nationally Determined Contributions (INDC)

The meeting was attended by 19 participants and an additional participant made a skype presentation from his home base in Apia. Included in the group were FAO technical staff from the Sub-regional Office for the Pacific Islands (SAP) and from Rome, representatives of the regional technical agency – Secretariat of the Pacific Community, country representatives from Ministries of Agriculture and National Statistics offices, private sector consultants and the Head of the Coordination Unit for the EU funded All ACP Commodities Programme (AAACP) from Brussels (participants list is attached at Annex 2).

This Ramsar COP10 National Report Format (NRF) has been approved by the Standing Committee for the Ramsar Convention’s Contracting Parties to complete as their national reporting to the 10th meeting of the Conference of the Contracting Parties of the Convention (Republic of Korea, October/November 2008).

This guide helps the Fijian community leaders, community members and trainers mobilise community action to improve good governance and leadership in communities. The Governing communities guide explains what good governance is and how it can improve communities by encouraging respect, cooperation and accountability.

This guide helps Fiji community leaders, community members and trainers mobilise community action to improve good governance and leadership in communities. The Governing communities guide explains what good governance is and how it can prove communities by encouraging respect, cooperation and accountability.