Pacific Type II Umbrella Partnership/Initiatives

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Pacific Type II Umbrella Partnership/Initiatives

• Implementing Sustainable Development Through
  Partnership Coordination

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What Value is added by Type II Label
Implementation through Partnerships is not a new
thing

• Offers a platform for coordination
• International exposure (WSSD Launching, CSD,
  International Forums, Websites)
• Wider group of stakeholders involved (reflective
  of pillars of SD)
• Long term goals, common benchmarks determined by
  interested partners (voluntary programmatic
  approach to efforts)
• We know that it comes with the principles of SD

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14 Pacific Umbrella Type II Partnership/Initiative
s

• Ocean (Australia, NZ, PICs)
• Ocean Forum
• Energy (EU, Denmark, PICs)
• PIEPP, Project developing with EU
• Adaptation to Climate Change
• Capacity Building
• SIDS negotiations training
• Governance
• Mainstreaming Nature Conservation
• Implementation of the Mainstreaming Conservation
  Strategy 2002.
• Roundtable review.
• Health

• Water and Wastewater
• Pacific and Caribbean
• Land Resources
• Information and Communication Technology (ICT)
• Sustainable Tourism
• SIDS Developing capacities to reduce
  vulnerability
• Community Development
• Waste Management (Japan, NZ)

Providing Platforms for Coordination www.SIDS-net.
org
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Development since WSSD

• Initiatives Matrix (Facilitators, coordinating
  committee, interested partners, related
  Initiatives)
• Developing a matrix showing development at all
  Levels
• Road maps for further development
• Milestones, Projects, Coordination mechanisms,
  Contribution to MDGs, Agenda 21, BPoA, JPOI
• Partnership interest further developed (Network
  created)
• UN PIF Missions developed a Road Map of how to
  market activities at the International level and
  leverage resources, for activities under these
  Initiatives.
• Initiative development, and lessons learnt, seen
  as important input to the BPoA10 pacific
  preparations
• Initiatives are taking their own development
  paths.

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Some Examples

• Developments related to the Water Initiative
• 2 new projects funded and being implemented
  outside of traditional funding systems
• Island Climate update newsletter
• Hydrological technicians training
• Developing an Inter-SIDS Pacific-Caribbean
  programme for action on water and climate
• NZ-US Climate accord and partnership programme
• Currently discussing possibility of white water
  to blue water project similar to that in the
  Caribbean
• Example of inter-SIDS partnership initiatives
  directly benefiting the National level
• Scavenger well trials project being piloted in
  Majuro and some Caribbean Islands. The results of
  which may be replicated in other SIDS

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Examples Cont.

• Developments with Energy Initiative
• 2 projects have developed
• Institutional capacity for energy planning and
  policy development(SOPAC)
• People capacity building for utilities training
  (PPA)

These projects will directly assist PICs in
developing and implementing their National Energy
Policies and Plans
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Waste Management

• PALM 2003, Japan and PIF leaders identified
  amongst other issues to jointly undertake
• A priority focus on waste management, protection
  and sustainable use of the environment and
  natural resources, global warming and
  vulnerability and disaster management.
• Japan in collaboration with regional partners are
  now developing a regional waste management
  strategy for the region.

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Next Steps?

• Umbrella Initiatives are now being recognized as
  platforms for coordination.
• Refine NARs where needed, identify priorities
  and look at opportunities to address these issues
  through these partnership mechanisms
• Build bilateral, multilateral or sub-regional
  partnerships on, or using, these umbrella
  initiative platforms
• Strengthen or build on mechanisms (reflective of
  3 pillars of SD) in country to promote
  coordination of national initiatives (WSSD task
  forces)
• Work towards providing a policy framework to
  support that mechanism (NSDS, integration into
  other national strategies, policys or plans)