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>

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>

scholarly journals Rocketship and the Rural Health Workforce Revolution in the Pacific: Growing Skilled Medical Generalists Across the “Blue Continent”

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lachlan McIver ◽  
Dan Manahan ◽  
Sam Jones ◽  
Lisiate 'Ulufonua
Keyword(s):  
Technical Assistance ◽  
Postgraduate Training ◽  
Solomon Islands ◽  
Hospital Medicine ◽  
Pacific Island ◽  
Medical Workforce ◽  
New Graduates ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
Timor Leste ◽  
Training Programmes

Dramatic shifts are occurring in the size, shape and skill of rural health workforces in Pacific island countries (PICs) due to an unprecedented convergence of political agreement, policy commitment, donor support and technical assistance. In particular, the impact of “medical internationalism” is being felt across the Pacific region, with new doctors returning home in far greater numbers than ever before, the majority having graduated from medical schools in Cuba, China and other countries outside the region, in addition to the more typical numbers graduating and returning home from the region's main medical schools in Fiji and Papua New Guinea. With an agreed regional vision of “Healthy Islands” across the Pacific, the main objective of expanding overseas training opportunities for Pacific island medical students has been to correct the widespread centralization and maldistribution of the medical workforce in PICs and improve health access and quality of care in rural areas by deploying the new graduates to outer-island facilities. However, the return of these new graduates in several PICs has demonstrated that additional training is required to equip them with the knowledge and skills necessary to practice safely and sustainably in unsupervised settings. Thus, the development of specific postgraduate programmes has been urgently needed to provide pathways to vocational training and specialization in rural medicine appropriate to the Pacific region. Rocketship Pacific Ltd. (Rocketship) is an international health charity, based in Australia, dedicated to improving health in Pacific island countries through stronger primary care. Rocketship's particular focus to date has been on education and capacity-building for doctors and nurses working in rural communities and outer-island facilities. Since 2015, Rocketship has been working in partnership with the Ministries of Health and other key partners in Solomon Islands, Timor-Leste, Tonga and Vanuatu to design and deliver postgraduate training programmes in the core generalist disciplines family, community and rural hospital medicine. To date, this has resulted in new postgraduate Family Medicine courses being established in Timor-Leste and Tonga; a rural medical workforce support programme being delivered in Vanuatu; and a new Postgraduate Diploma in Rural Generalist Medicine being designed in Solomon Islands. These new programmes, as well as other notable initiatives elsewhere in the Pacific such as the Master of Medicine (Rural) programme in Papua New Guinea, the Diploma and Master of Family Medicine programme in Fiji and the Cook Islands Fellowship in General Practice, are transforming the health workforce in PICs with the potential to benefit island people across the “Blue Continent.” This paper describes the establishment of new postgraduate training programmes in family, community and rural hospital medicine in Timor-Leste, Tonga, Solomon Islands and Vanuatu from the perspective of Rocketship, the non-profit organization engaged by each country's Ministry of Health (or equivalent) to provide expert technical assistance with their initiative.

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 Towards a Celebration of 50 Years of European Union

2007 ◽  
Vol 38 (1) ◽  
pp. 5
Author(s):  
A H Angelo ◽  
Rebekah C Plachecki
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Pacific Region ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Direct Relevance ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
The Creation ◽  
The Eu

The article provides an introduction to the articles found in this issue of the Victoria University of Wellington Law Review. The authors state that the purpose of the collection of articles is to mark and celebrate the creation of the European Union ('EU') while acting as clear evidence of the dynamism of the EU. The authors note that the articles reflect on a range of topics – many of them with direct relevance to the peoples and countries of the Pacific region. 

Russian tourist product: consumer expectations of interrnational tourists

10.12737/7464 ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 8 (7) ◽  
pp. 0-0
Author(s):  
Татьяна Кривошеева ◽  
Tatiana Krivosheeva
Keyword(s):  
World Bank ◽  
Federal State ◽  
Pacific Region ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Asian Countries ◽  
The World Bank ◽  
Transport Component ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
The World ◽  
European Markets

This article presents the results of the analysis of preferences and motivations of tourists from the main existing and prospective tourist arrivals in Russia, which was conducted by the method of content analysis based on publications of the UNWTO, the World Bank, Eurostat, the European Union, the Federal State Statistics Service, the national tourism administrations, international tourism conferences, scientific and practical work. In the process of the study identified were two groups of research texts: a group of texts about the preferences and motivations of tourists from Europe and America, and a group of texts about the preferences and motivations of tourists from Asia. Results are also presented by geographical areas &#34;Europe and America&#34; and &#34;Asian countries.&#34; The study was conducted with the aim of optimizing the preparation of proposals for the formation of the federal policy of promoting Russian tourist product. As a component of the result the author suggest a common approach to marketing efforts to promote Russian tourist product in the European markets and the markets of Asia and the Pacific Region. The approach is to identify priority types of tourism for potential consumers of Russian tourist product, to construct the ratings of distribution policy priorities in the allocation of key expectations from the stay in Russia for the purpose of tourism, to plan route networks and features of the transport component, as well as the to urgently reduce visa formalities for priority markets.

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

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.

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