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SPREP-Tok : Issue 42. March, 2018.
SPREP Publications
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2018
A monthly e-bulletin of activities and assistance from the Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme to its member countries.
Governance assessment for protected and conserved areas (GAPA)
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2018
As global and national conservation policy evolves to include stronger ambition on governance issues, there is growing recognition that practice often falls far short of the standard set in policy
Combating marine plastic litter and microplastics: An assessment of the effectiveness of relevant international, regional and subregional governance strategies and approaches.
Waste Management and Pollution Control
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Dr Raubenheimer, Karen

2018
Summary of the suggested options on combating marine plastic litter and microplastics
2017 Pacific Environment Forum : connecting the dots - environment, knowledge and governance
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2017
The Pacific Environment Forum (PEF) is an initiative by the Secretariat to meet long standing member requests for a more informal setting to facilitate discussion amongst officials and other stakeholders on key environmental, technical and institutional issues. The PEF is held prior to the SPREP Meeting (SM) allowing for the outcomes to be tabled at the SM for its consideration. The PEF was held for the first time in 2011.
Toward defining the Blue Economy: Practical lessons from pacific ocean governance
Biodiversity Conservation

Keen, Meg R.

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Schwarz, Anne-Maree

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Wini-Simeon, Lysa

2017
Governments and regional agencies of the Pacific Islands are strengthening their commitment to sustainable oceans management through proactive policies and programs. The Blue Economy concept is increasingly being invoked, yet clarity on definitions and implementation steps remain vague. This paper reviews reports, academic literature and regional speeches to develop a Blue Economy conceptual framework which is then applied to three case studies from the fisheries sector – small scale fisheries, urban fish markets and onshore tuna processing. The cases illustrate an imbalance in attention paid to key components of the Blue Economy and missed opportunities for integration across scales, time and stakeholders with a few noteworthy exceptions. Issues of power, agency and gender remain weakly addressed even in the most recent initiatives. While clearly defining components of the Blue Economy provides a valuable tool for assessing coverage of key elements of sustainable ocean management, it is less obvious that the new label, Blue Economy, significantly advances practice beyond existing sustainable development frameworks. A proliferation in terms adds more complexity to an already challenging management space. Nevertheless, the conceptual framework is useful for structuring evaluations of practice, and helping to reveal missing ingredients necessary for the sustainable development of oceans.
Combating Climate Change in the Pacific: Regional Governance, agency and dependency

McDuie-Ra, Duncan

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Williams, Marc

2016
From the perspective of Pacific island states and territories (PICTs) much of the intense speculation and debate over climate policy seems irrelevant and immature given the oft-repeated warnings of the severe consequences for low-lying islands and atoll countries of climate change. The Pacific is not just ‘any region’ when it comes to climate change but rather, as Farbotko (2010) argues, is an ‘experimental space’ of climate change ‘canaries’. The position of the Pacific at the frontline of climate change has spurred voluminous research, however studies of the politics of climate change within the region is limited, particularly with regard to and regional processes. This paper explores the regional politics of climate change in the Pacific. Within the grand architecture of global climate governance, the region provides compelling new insights into the ways climate change is constructed, governed, and shaped by—and in turn shapes—regional and global climate politics. Through an exploration of regional governance as a strategy by which small vulnerable states respond to urgent crises, the paper explores both the potential and the limitations of collective action on environmental issues following the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP21) in Paris 2015. We argue that evolving regional governance on climate change is mobilizing resources and finance to combat climate change. On the surface it appears to be a successful manifestation of solidarity among states and territories facing a shared fate. This solidarity has been institutionalized in three key regional organizations that mobilize resources climate change action through distinct policy narratives about the place of the Pacific in global climate crisis. These organizations also distribute these resources to members. As a result climate finance in the Pacific is mostly generated by multilateral rather than bilateral donors. However, despite this apparent demonstration of regional agency, beneath the surface regional climate governance is heavily dependent on donors for finance and expertise. This exposes a dual vulnerability of PICTs. They are extremely vulnerable to the impacts of climate change while also being extremely vulnerable to growing dependencies on donors to address these impacts.
Combatting climate change in the Pacific: Regional Governance, agency and dependency

McDuie-Ra, Prof Duncan

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Williams, Prof. Marc

2016
From the perspective of Pacific island states and territories (PICTs) much of the intense speculation and debate over climate policy seems irrelevant and immature given the oft-repeated warning of the severe consequences for low-lying islands and atoll countries of climate change
Governance for Drought Resilience
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Hans Bressers, Nanny Bressers, Corinne Larrue

2016
This book is about governance for drought resilience. But that simple sentence alone might rouse several questions. Because what do we mean with drought, and how does that relate to water scarcity? And what do we mean with resilience, and why is resilience needed for tackling drought? And how does governance enter this equation? We argue that governance assessment—the study of restricting and facilitating characteristics of a governance setting—can greatly aid implementation of drought adaptation measures, thereby increasing drought resilience. In this chapter we will first discuss the occurrence of drought in (Northwest) Europe, and why governance matters for increasing drought resilience (Sect. 1.1). Second, we will shed more light on the notion of governance and how governance is dealt with by us (Sect. 1.2). Third, we will review existing governance assessment methods (Sect. 1.3). Fourth, we will use this knowledge on governance and governance assessment to introduce our key principles in governance assessment, and discuss how we have applied these in a real-life project setting (Sect. 1.4). Fifth, and last, this chapter ends with an outlook into the rest of the book, to guide the reader in reading (Sect. 1.5).
Ocean Governance: Our Sea of Islands - A Sustainable Future for Small States: Pacific 2050
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Commonwealth Secretariat

2016
A Sustainable Future for Small States: Pacific 2050 is part of the Commonwealth Secretariat’s regional strategic foresight programmes that examines whether current development strategies set a region on a path to achieve sustainable development by 2050. The publication follows a previous study on the Caribbean entitled Achieving a Resilient Future for Small States: Caribbean 2050, which was launched at the Commonwealth Global Biennial Conference on Small States in May 2016.
Fraud prevention & whistleblower protection manual
Key SPREP Documents
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SPREP

2016
This Manual elaborates the core requirement set out in the “SPREP Governance Policy” endorsed by the Senior Management in December of 2016 relating to fraud prevention. It contains SPREP’s policy and procedural guidelines on fraud. 2. This Manual provides a mechanism so anyone can report allegations of fraud with whistleblower protection. It provides guidance for the review and investigation of allegations and acting on the outcome thereof. It is done within the context of the Organisational Values and the Code of Conduct. The manual is a direct response to the issue of implementing internal controls on fraud identified in the 2012 Risk Management Plan.

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