scholarly journals The Commonwealth Local Government Pacific Project: Seeking ‘most significant change’

2010 ◽  
pp. 176-188 ◽  
Author(s):  
Graham Hassall
Keyword(s):  
Local Government ◽  
Management Practices ◽  
Pacific Islands ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Small States ◽  
Ongoing Work ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
Most Significant Change ◽  
Development Outcomes

The origins of the Commonwealth Local Government Forum’s Pacific Project date to a 1997 roundtable in Papua New Guinea. Substantial activity, however, commenced more recently in 2005 with the launch of a 5-year project to enhance the quality of local government in the small states of the Pacific Islands. The project was well-conceived and managed to establish strong ‘buy-in’ by major stakeholders and partners. A mid-term review was undertaken in 2008 and was generally positive. The project is now in the final stages of implementation of what it hoped will be only its first phase. In 2009-2010 its central task is to ensure that the ‘key results’ envisaged at the outset are achieved: donors are looking for evidence of real impact in participating countries; project administrators are refining management practices on the basis of the mid-term review (as well as the regular feedback they receive from participating countries); participating countries are being asked to realistically plan, and to better integrate project activities into their ongoing work-plans as evidence of both genuine development outcomes and future sustainability of lessons learned.

Local government in the Pacific Islands

2018 ◽  
pp. 110-130
Author(s):  
Graham Hassall ◽  
Matthew Kensen ◽  
Rikiaua Takeke ◽  
Karibaiti Taoba ◽  
Feue Tipu
Keyword(s):  
Local Government ◽  
Pacific Islands ◽  
The Pacific

Healthy Islands

2018 ◽  
pp. 285-290
Author(s):  
Evelyne de Leeuw ◽  
Erik Martin ◽  
Temo Waqanivalu
Keyword(s):  
Tobacco Control ◽  
Population Health ◽  
Pacific Islands ◽  
Small Island ◽  
Small States ◽  
Small Island Developing States ◽  
Development Agenda ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
Settings Approach ◽  
Health And Development

Small Island Developing States (SIDS) form a special setting where nature and (population) health become intimately connected. This chapter outlines the nature of such small states, their development and health challenges, and a common health solution that has been advanced in the Pacific. The Yanuca Declaration established a Healthy Island programme in 1995. It is a specific example of a ‘healthy settings’ approach (Nutbeam, 1996). Healthy Islands form an integrated element of the Pacific development agenda and explicitly pursue a comprehensive agenda at the interface of nature, health, and development. Examples of this agenda are provided in two case studies. First, the WHO-led ‘Healthy Island Recognition’ programme, and second, the commitments among Pacific islands to the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control.

scholarly journals Local Government in the South Pacific Islands

2008 ◽  
pp. 7-29 ◽  
Author(s):  
Graham Hassall ◽  
Feue Tipu
Keyword(s):  
Local Government ◽  
Pacific Islands ◽  
Government Reform ◽  
Pacific Island ◽  
Capita Expenditure ◽  
Island States ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
Per Capita ◽  
Pacific Island States ◽  
South Pacific Islands

In this paper we seek to answer some basic questions about the condition of local government in the Pacific. Firstly, we examine what is meant by ‘local government’ in the various islands and for that matter how Pacific Island states have perceived and accepted local government institutions in practice; second, we ask basic questions about existing legal and constitutional recognition and powers; and third, we provide initial findings on current per capita expenditure and local government financial viability in a number of Pacific cities and towns. We also make some observations on current moves towards local government reform.

Responding to an Introduced Pathogen: Podosphaera macularis (Hop Powdery Mildew) in the Pacific Northwest

2003 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 21 ◽  
Author(s):  
Walter F. Mahaffee ◽  
Carla S. Thomas ◽  
William W. Turechek ◽  
Cynthia M. Ocamb ◽  
Mark E. Nelson ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Powdery Mildew ◽  
Pacific Northwest ◽  
Management Practices ◽  
Risk Index ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Infection Model ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
Sphaerotheca Macularis ◽  
The Cost ◽  
Podosphaera Macularis

Powdery mildew of hop (Humulus lupus L.), which is caused by Podosphaera macularis (formerly Sphaerotheca macularis) was found in the Yakima Valley, WA in 1996 and subsequently spread to the growing regions in Oregon and northern and southern Idaho. To rapidly assist growers in reducing the cost associated with the preventive fungicide program, the Gubler/Thomas grape powdery mildew risk infection model was adapted for hops. In addition, field surveys were utilized to identify other management practices that impacted disease development. Weather networks were established and utilized to deliver daily regional maps indicating the risk index. These maps were posted to the web for daily access. Lessons learned from this experience will be useful in addressing future pathogen introductions. Accepted for publication 28 March 2003. Published 13 November 2003.

Climate Change Mitigation:The Case of Boracay Island

2012 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Celedonia R. Hilario ◽  
Benedicta D. Repayo ◽  
Librada F. Rebustes ◽  
Ailyn Q. Relojero
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Local Government ◽  
Waste Management ◽  
Management Practices ◽  
Solid Waste Management ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Material Recovery ◽  
The People ◽  
Waste Management Practices ◽  
Material Recovery Facility

The study aims to determine the following: (1) solid waste management practices of the people in Boracay Island prior to the advent of the Material Recovery Facility (MRF) Program; (2) types of waste were generated in the island; (3) changes occurred after the MRF; (4) problems encountered in the implementation of the program and what measures have been done to solve the problem; (5)lessons learned by the local government units in the implementation of the program.

Trends in Vulnerability to Climate-related Hazards in the Pacific: Research, Understanding and Implications

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Hay ◽  
Virginie Duvat ◽  
Alexandre K. Magnan
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Success Factors ◽  
Pacific Islands ◽  
Heat Waves ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Pacific Island ◽  
Effective Response ◽  
Hazard Exposure ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
Pacific Island Nations

The unique coping capacities and other attributes that Pacific island nations have been developing for centuries have sustained them in the face of an enormous range of local and global challenges. These include climate change-related hazards, and especially tropical cyclones and high-wave incidents that notably generate landslides and river and coastal flooding; droughts; heat waves; and ocean warming. Such hazards place resources, people, and assets at serious risk, as reflected by their vulnerability. However, measuring climate change vulnerability is problematic since climate hazards combine with anthropogenic and other physical drivers to influence the nature, levels, and variability of vulnerability. The few longitudinal studies that have been undertaken for the Pacific island countries show high and increasing vulnerabilities, despite considerable investment of money and other resources at community, island, sector, and national levels.Considering the elements of risk (hazard, exposure, vulnerability, and capacity to adapt), this chapter critically reviews the approaches used in the Pacific to assess vulnerability, analyzes recent changes in the vulnerability of island nations, and lays the foundation for some new thinking on island habitability and futures. It uses lessons learned, as well as success stories and success factors, to present priorities related to the assessment of climate change vulnerabilities, risks, and possible adaptation interventions in the Pacific islands region. These underpin a series of principles aimed at harmonizing understanding and action. Notably, the chapter concludes that transformational resilient development can provide a more effective response to increasingly unprecedented risks and higher vulnerabilities, for both high and low islands, including atolls.

SMALL STATES, BIG ISSUES? HUMAN GEOGRAPHY IN THE PACIFIC ISLANDS

1993 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 265-276 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Overton
Keyword(s):  
Pacific Islands ◽  
Human Geography ◽  
Small States ◽  
The Pacific

scholarly journals Australia-Papua New Guinea Good Practice Scheme: Alotau-Sunshine Coast

1970 ◽  
pp. 187-204
Author(s):  
Doug Barnes ◽  
Adam Britton
Keyword(s):  
Local Government ◽  
Management Practices ◽  
Technical Assistance ◽  
Local Level ◽  
Good Practice ◽  
Provincial Government ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
Waste Management Practices ◽  
The Town ◽  
Level Government

In 2007 the CEO of the then Noosa Council became aware of the Commonwealth Local Government Forum’s (CLGF) Good Practice Scheme in the Pacific program through his involvement as the President of Local Government Managers Australia. He contacted the CLGF with a view to contributing to the program. Alotau Urban Local Level Government (ULLG) was chosen as Noosa’s partner for the program due to its enthusiasm to improve waste management practices in order to clean up the town and create an aesthetically improved environment. Noosa Council considered that it was well credentialed to assist in this regard. Later in November 2008, after Noosa had become part of the new Sunshine Coast Regional Council (SCRC) the Milne Bay Provincial Government and Alotau Urban Local Level Government (AULLG) sought further technical assistance for the preparation of an Urban Development Plan for Alotau and surrounds.

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