scholarly journals Effective triage in the Pacific region: The development and implementation of the Solomon Islands Triage Scale

2019 ◽  
Vol 31 (3) ◽  
pp. 451-458 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lynne E Wanefalea ◽  
Rob Mitchell ◽  
Trina Sale ◽  
Elizabeth Sanau ◽  
Georgina A Phillips
Keyword(s):  
Solomon Islands ◽  
Pacific Region ◽  
The Pacific

scholarly journals Yaws in the Western Pacific Region: A Review of the Literature

2011 ◽  
Vol 2011 ◽  
pp. 1-15 ◽  
Author(s):  
Corinne Capuano ◽  
Masayo Ozaki
Keyword(s):  
Solomon Islands ◽  
Public Health Problem ◽  
Western Pacific ◽  
Extensive Literature ◽  
Pacific Region ◽  
Political Commitment ◽  
Western Pacific Region ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
Single Intramuscular Injection ◽  
The Western Pacific

Until the middle of the 20th century, yaws was highly endemic and considered a serious public health problem in the Western Pacific Region (WPR), leading to intensive control efforts in the 1950s–1960s. Since then, little attention has been paid to its reemergence. Its current burden is unknown. This paper presents the results of an extensive literature review, focusing on yaws in the South Pacific. Available records suggest that the region remains largely free of yaws except for Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, and Vanuatu. Many clinical cases reported recently were described as “attenuated”; advanced stages are rare. A single intramuscular injection of benzathine penicillin is still effective in curing yaws. In the Pacific, yaws may be amenable to elimination if adequate resources are provided and political commitment revived. A mapping of yaws prevalence in PNG, Solomon, and Vanuatu is needed before comprehensive country-tailored strategies towards yaws elimination can be developed.

scholarly journals The PRIDE Project: Assessing the Regional Approach to Basic Education Delivery

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Lucy Mitchell
Keyword(s):  
Best Practice ◽  
Technical Assistance ◽  
Basic Education ◽  
Solomon Islands ◽  
Pacific Region ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Development Fund ◽  
Regional Dynamics ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
Education Delivery

<p>The PRIDE Project was conceived as a way to bolster the awareness, coordination and delivery of basic education in the Pacific region. The project‟s mandate was to enhance the capacity of Pacific education agencies to effectively plan and deliver quality basic education through formal and non-formal means. The project focused on the provision of technical assistance as well as support and advice to build national capacities through three key areas. First, the development of effective and realistic education strategic plans, secondly the implementation of plans (through sub-project activities) and thirdly sharing best practice through online networks, a resource centre and regional and sub- regional workshops. In total the project received €8 million from the European Union Development Fund and NZD$5 million from NZAID.1 2 The project‟s concept was developed by Pacific Ministers of Education who believed many past educational aid initiatives had not delivered successful, relevant or sustainable results. PRIDE was therefore established as a project that would be housed and operated from within the Pacific region. Being based out of the University of the South Pacific in Suva, Fiji, the project wanted to utilise and foster Pacific capacity, knowledge and ownership as much as possible. This thesis will explore The PRIDE Project‟s activities within the region. Discussion will focus on why the mandate of sector planning was chosen, and how it has many similarities to sector wide approaches. Investigation into PRIDE within the Solomon Islands will demonstrate that the project had an overoptimistic mandate which struggled to make any considerable achievements in the everyday delivery of basic education. The regional dynamics of this project will be analysed against local priorities and agendas, ultimately showing that they can sit uncomfortably next to each other. Discussion will highlight how ideas of complete Pacific ownership will continue to be a challenge for the region as capacity and infrastructure is limited. In addition, development projects need to move beyond top level sector planning to implementation and delivery if any significant changes to education provision are to be made.</p>

Incompatibility, Substitution or Complementarity? Interrogating Relationships between International, State and Non-State Peace Agents in Post-Conflict Solomon Islands

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Volker Boege
Keyword(s):  
Solomon Islands ◽  
Field Research ◽  
Pacific Region ◽  
Post Conflict ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
The Social ◽  
State Agents ◽  
State And Local ◽  
Shadow It ◽  
Violent Conflicts

This concluding chapter illustrates how, in the Soloman Islands, very significant agency lies at the social level of peacemaking. In July 2003, after several years of internal violent conflicts, the Solomon Islands became the target of the biggest peacebuilding intervention in the Pacific region to date — the Regional Assistance Mission to the Solomon Islands (RAMSI). This mission is generally presented as a success story of post-conflict peacebuilding and statebuilding. The chapter shows how locals have pursued their own indigenous processes of peace formation detached from, and parallel to, RAMSI, albeit in its shadow. It draws mainly on field research into community views on the capacities, effectiveness, and legitimacy of international, state, and local, non-state agents of peace and state formation, using the categories of incompatibility, substitution, and complementarity to analyse the approaches and practices of these actors.

Parapiromis nom. nov., a new name for Piromis Fennah (Hemiptera: Fulgoromorpha: Ricaniidae), with descriptions of three new species

Zootaxa ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 2400 (1) ◽  
pp. 29 ◽  
Author(s):  
CUI-PING BU ◽  
MARIE-CLAUDE LARIVIÈRE ◽  
AI-PING LIANG
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Papua New Guinea ◽  
Solomon Islands ◽  
External Morphology ◽  
Pacific Region ◽  
Distribution Map ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
New Name ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
Three New Species

Parapiromis Bu, Larivière & Liang is created as a new name for Piromis Fennah (Hemiptera: Fulgoromorpha: Ricaniidae), which is preoccupied by Piromis Kinberg, 1869 (Annelida), and three new species of the genus are described and illustrated from the Pacific region: P. guadalcanalensis Bu & Liang sp. nov. (Solomon Islands), P. kiungaensis Bu & Liang sp. nov. (Papua New Guinea), P. santacruzensis Bu & Liang sp. nov. (Solomon Islands). P. translucida (Montrouzier) is redescribed and illustrated, including the external morphology of adult and the structure of the male and female genitalia. A key and a distribution map to the species of Parapiromis are provided.

scholarly journals CHINESE INVOLVEMENT IN VANUATU AND SOLOMON ISLAND FOREIGN POLICY AGAINST THE PAPUA ISSUE

2020 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 95-110
Author(s):  
Marinus Mesak ◽  
Yanyan Mochamad Yani ◽  
Windy Dermawan
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Policy ◽  
Solomon Island ◽  
Solomon Islands ◽  
Pacific Region ◽  
Belt And Road Initiative ◽  
Economic Diplomacy ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
Belt And Road ◽  
Basic Infrastructure ◽  
Separatist Movement

The influence of China in the Pacific region increases due to the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) program that focuses its assistance and soft loans on the development of basic infrastructure and other supporting infrastructure. Increased economic influence has an impact on changes in regional geopolitical maps. China appears to be increasingly dominant in influencing the foreign policy of the region’s countries, including China’s involvement in controlling Vanuatu and Solomon Island’s foreign policy. At present, the issue of Papua is on the main agenda of Vanuatu and Solomon Island’s foreign policy. Significant funds are needed to finance the process of advocating for the issue of Papua in the Pacific region and the international community. One source of funding comes from Chinese aid. This article will review China’s position as a source of the financing for the Papuan separatist movement based in Vanuatu and Solomon Islands, by using a power approach and economic diplomacy. Keywords: China, Belt, and Road Initiative, economic, diplomacy, Power, Vanuatu, Solomon Island, and Internationalization of Papuan Issues.    

scholarly journals A Typology of Food Environments in the Pacific Region and Their Relationship to Diet Quality in Solomon Islands

Foods ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (11) ◽  
pp. 2592
Author(s):  
Jessica R. Bogard ◽  
Neil L. Andrew ◽  
Penny Farrell ◽  
Mario Herrero ◽  
Michael K. Sharp ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Diet Quality ◽  
Food Systems ◽  
Food System ◽  
Solomon Islands ◽  
Food Environments ◽  
Extensive Literature ◽  
Pacific Region ◽  
Kinship Networks ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
The One

Extensive literature describes the importance of food environments (FEs) as a driver of food choices and nutrition outcomes; yet existing FE frameworks do not adequately capture the diversity of FEs relevant to the Pacific Region. This limits identification of opportunities in food systems to reduce the multiple burden of malnutrition. We present a conceptual typology of FEs including six primary FEs relevant in the Pacific; wild; cultivated; kin and community; informal retail; formal retail; and food aid and services. We then apply this typology to food acquisition data from Solomon Islands 2012/13 Household Income and Expenditure Survey and analyse the relationship between FEs and diet quality. The cultivated FE accounts for 60% of the quantity of food acquired nationally, followed by wild (15%), kin and community (9%), and formal and informal retail FEs (8% each), with wide variation between urban and rural households, provinces and wealth groups. Reliance on different FEs is a significant predictor of diet quality and affirms the importance of subsistence fisheries and agriculture, and community and kinship networks. Integration of a FE typology such as the one presented here in commonly conducted household expenditure surveys offers significant opportunity to advance our understanding of food system leverage points to improve nutrition and health.

scholarly journals Human Rights and the WTO: Issues for the Pacific

2009 ◽  
Vol 40 (1) ◽  
pp. 351 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarah Joseph
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
World Trade Organization ◽  
Papua New Guinea ◽  
Free Trade ◽  
World Trade ◽  
Solomon Islands ◽  
Pacific Region ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
The Impact

In the Pacific, Australia, New Zealand, Fiji, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands and Tonga are World Trade Organization members.  This article examines the human rights concerns regarding the WTO, in particular the impact of WTO rules regarding trade liberalisation on poverty and development within developing states.  The author comments on the costs of conditional WTO membership and the possible consequences of free trade and globalisation in the Pacific region.

scholarly journals The PRIDE Project: Assessing the Regional Approach to Basic Education Delivery

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Lucy Mitchell
Keyword(s):  
Best Practice ◽  
Technical Assistance ◽  
Basic Education ◽  
Solomon Islands ◽  
Pacific Region ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Development Fund ◽  
Regional Dynamics ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
Education Delivery

<p>The PRIDE Project was conceived as a way to bolster the awareness, coordination and delivery of basic education in the Pacific region. The project‟s mandate was to enhance the capacity of Pacific education agencies to effectively plan and deliver quality basic education through formal and non-formal means. The project focused on the provision of technical assistance as well as support and advice to build national capacities through three key areas. First, the development of effective and realistic education strategic plans, secondly the implementation of plans (through sub-project activities) and thirdly sharing best practice through online networks, a resource centre and regional and sub- regional workshops. In total the project received €8 million from the European Union Development Fund and NZD$5 million from NZAID.1 2 The project‟s concept was developed by Pacific Ministers of Education who believed many past educational aid initiatives had not delivered successful, relevant or sustainable results. PRIDE was therefore established as a project that would be housed and operated from within the Pacific region. Being based out of the University of the South Pacific in Suva, Fiji, the project wanted to utilise and foster Pacific capacity, knowledge and ownership as much as possible. This thesis will explore The PRIDE Project‟s activities within the region. Discussion will focus on why the mandate of sector planning was chosen, and how it has many similarities to sector wide approaches. Investigation into PRIDE within the Solomon Islands will demonstrate that the project had an overoptimistic mandate which struggled to make any considerable achievements in the everyday delivery of basic education. The regional dynamics of this project will be analysed against local priorities and agendas, ultimately showing that they can sit uncomfortably next to each other. Discussion will highlight how ideas of complete Pacific ownership will continue to be a challenge for the region as capacity and infrastructure is limited. In addition, development projects need to move beyond top level sector planning to implementation and delivery if any significant changes to education provision are to be made.</p>

Taxonomy of the fern genus Didymochlaena (Didymochlaenaceae) from Asia and Pacific islands based on morphological and molecular evidence with the description of four new species and one new status

Phytotaxa ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 479 (1) ◽  
pp. 71-82
Author(s):  
HUI SHANG ◽  
ZHEN-LONG LIANG ◽  
LI-BING ZHANG
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Papua New Guinea ◽  
Pacific Islands ◽  
Solomon Islands ◽  
Taxonomic Revision ◽  
New Guinea ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
Molecular Evidence ◽  
Pacific Region ◽  
The Pacific

A taxonomic revision of Didymochlaena (Didymochlaenaceae) from Asia and the Pacific region is conducted based on morphological and molecular evidence. Seven species are recognized, of which four are described as new and a new status is raised to a species from a variety. These four new species include D. fijiensis from Fiji, D. philippensis from the Philippines, D. punctata from Indonesia, Malaysia, and Thailand, and D. solomonensis from the Solomon Islands. The new status is D. oceanica from Papua New Guinea. Six of the seven species have all been erroneously treated as D. truncatula by earlier pteridologists. A key to the species is provided and descriptions of all species are given.

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