Every year approximately 100,000 Fijians encounter a legal problem and need access to mechanisms that lead to fair resolutions.
While women make up 50 percent of global population, they are still not able to take up their rightful place in national parliaments across the region to review and vote on national laws, development priorities and budget allocations.
Education of the deaf children is crucial to give them the ability to fulfill their full potential.
Traditional Fijian voyaging bridges ancestral wisdom and renewable energy, inspires youth and proves carbon-neutral travel is possible
It’s after 2 o’clock in the afternoon and a group of women from Etil (a village 20 minutes from Port Vila) gather around 54-year-old matriarch, Wakalani Alphonse.
The partnership sets the stage for stronger cooperation in accelerating progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals.
The fund will support the low-lying atoll nation adapt to increasing climate risks, particularly more frequent and extreme droughts which impact the country’s freshwater supply.
BLOG | Sensemaking in a complex world: What matters most for the Pacific?
Every once in a while, it is important to step back from what we are doing and take a look at why we are doing it, and whether our larger purpose is served well by it (or what might serve this larger purpose better instead). For the UNDP Pacific Office in Fiji, which had just experienced a full leadership rotation, it was a perfect time to undergo such a reflection moment, and take a broader look at our programme portfolio as a whole.
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BLOG | Testing behavioural-insights-informed interventions to change plastic habits
As lifestyles change and a perpetual influx of single-use plastics are introduced in Honiara, the capital city of Solomon Islands, the city’s waste management system cannot keep up with the daily generated 80 tonnes of solid waste, of which 21 percent is plastics.
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BLOG | The heat is on
Today, on UN Day, I have chosen to focus this article on the need to accelerate climate actions, in order to save not only our generation, but our children’s future. Indeed, we are being scolded by today’s youth about the need for urgent action! Global greenhouse gas emissions are reaching record levels and show no sign of peaking, yet they must!
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About the Pacific Office in Fiji
9,937,200
Population
31.4
Poverty rate
$2678.2
GNI per capita
0.645
Human Dev. Index
