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Key role in respect of environmental safeguards is to ensure that environmental safeguards for the project are implemented effectively during construction.

The term gender-based violence highlights gender dimension of the violence and the root cause of the violence. However the Pacific, gender-based violence is often used against women and girls to adopt a gender-neutral approach to the issue.

The Environmental and Social Safeguards working groups (ESSWG) was formed to provide a platform for PRIF partner safeguard experts to share knowledge and best practice, and work collaboratively to build capacity for improved of safeguard implementation.

Cumulative impacts are those that result from the successive incremental, and/pr combined effects of an action, project or activity when added to other existing, planned and/or reasonably anticipated future ones impacts that would not be expected in the case of a stand-alone development.

Pacific island countries rely heavily on private sector consultants to support environmental and social management systems.

This short video aims to showcase the launch of the Vanuatu ocean monitoring network under the Vanuatu Climate Information Services for Resilient Development in Vanuatu (Vanuatu CISRD) project

Protected areas (PAs) are a cornerstone of global conservation and central to international plans to minimize global extinctions. During the coming century, global ecosystem destruction and fragmentation associated with increased human population and economic activity could make the long-term survival of most terrestrial vertebrates even more dependent on PAs.

The dual mandate for many protected areas (PAs) to simultaneously promote recreation and conserve biodiversity may be hampered by negative effects of recreation on wildlife.

This paper contrasts seven spatial biodiversity conservation area designations by six different bodies.

Gender equality, a universal agreed principle and value has been adopted widely but implemented to varying levels in different sectors. Our study was designed to contrast how gender development and fisheries sectors view and invest in gender and then explore opportunities to strengthen collaborative relationships and networks between the two, with the aim of improving capacity for gender inclusion in practice in fisheries.