2024 Regional Human Development Report: A Complex Landscape of Progress and Challenges

"In a world defined by uncertainty, we need a renewed sense of solidarity to tackle our interconnected challenges. We must focus on both empowering people today and prioritizing the well-being of our young people – the future stewards of our Blue Pacific. This means making smart investments in their human development: education, health, and opportunities that will equip them to thrive and tackle challenges yet to come."
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Pacific Women in Power Forum Commences in Auckland

Serving as the impetus for further collective action, women leaders from parliaments across the Pacific have convened on Auckland for the Pacific Women in Power Forum.

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Government of Japan's Digital Agency Expands Collaborative Partnership with Palau

A delegation from the Government of Japan's Digital Agency has arrived in Palau to further support toward the establishment of an efficient, digitized border management system at the country’s ports of entry.

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Auki Women Market Vendors : Driving Force for Local Economic Development

Marketplaces across the Pacific Islands play pivotal roles in driving local economic development, and the Solomon Islands are no exception. Here, marketplaces serve as vital economic intervention sites for rural market vendors and farmers.

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Blue Bond
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Launch of Fiji’s first-ever Sovereign Blue Bond

The efficient functioning of the maritime industry is critical to human livelihoods in a country like Fiji. Some within the sector like to use the phrase ‘no shipping, no shopping’, with almost 95 percent of goods entering the country coming via its seaports.

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Unloading materials from the vessel to small boat to access shallow waters at Lib Island.
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Fire, Floods, Drought: Over Two Decades of Navigating Through Climate Challenges in the Pacific

UNDP stands ready to support communities affected by drought and link this back to the long-term goal of water resilience in the face of climate change, which will only exacerbate these events further.

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What we do

In the Pacific, UNDP provides regional and country support to ten countries - Federated States of Micronesia, Fiji, Kiribati, Republic of the Marshall Islands, Nauru, Palau, Solomon Islands, Tonga, Tuvalu, and Vanuatu - and regional support to five countries - Cook Islands, Niue, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, and Tokelau - together with a total population of 2.4 million. We work on effective governance, inclusive growth as well as resilience and sustainable development.  

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Multi-Country Programme Document (2023-2027)

This 5-year multi-country program is an outcome of the Pacific Cooperation Framework for 2023-2027, integrating the national plans of 14 Pacific Island Countries and Territories in line with the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the Small Island Developing States Accelerated Modalities of Action Pathway. With clear guidance from the UNDP Strategic Plan (2022-2025) and building on the achievements of the previous program cycle, UNDP's contribution to the Cooperation Framework will effectively implement the Secretary General's directives to aid small island developing States and advance the Blue Pacific Continent strategy.

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Artisanal mining
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Stronger Value Chains Are Vital for Artisanal Small-Scale Mining

The Forum on Sustainable and Inclusive Mineral Value Chains enables participants to share knowledge and innovations in artisanal and small-scale mining, on more s...

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Empowering communities through integrating climate change adaptation and biodiversity conservation approaches

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Field Notes: Documenting Land Registration and Boundary Demarcation in Bellona

In the heart of the Solomon Islands, amidst the azure waters of the Pacific Ocean and lush greenery within the islands, lies the captivating Bellona, one of the m...

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SECSIP completes pre-election training for CSOs

The UN Development Programme (UNDP) has continued its support to the Solomon Islands Electoral Commission (SIEC) through a series of pre-election trainings for Ci...

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Handover of Emergency Operations Center in Ebeye: A Milestone in Disaster Preparedness and Response

A significant milestone in disaster preparedness and response capacities for the Republic of the Marshall Islands (RMI) has been achieved with the official handov...

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Our Impact

1.8

million

people in Fiji, PNG, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tonga and Vanuatu, now have access to formal financial services.

9,000

households

supported with livelihoods recovery, community infrastructure, early warning systems, and Post-Disaster Needs Assessment after Tropical Cyclone Harold in Fiji, Solomon Islands, Tonga, and Vanuatu.

10.99

hectares

of mangrove forests and 5.57 hectares of coastal areas in Kosrae State, FSM were rehabilitated.

4

women

were elected as Members of Parliament for the Solomon Islands 2020 National Elections. It is the the highest number ever in its law-making body.

200≈

new jobs

created in green/blue businesses in the Pacific.

1,777

people

reached in Tonga through the REACH project Fiji model.

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