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June 22, 2017, Suva: With a total of a 174 stunning photographs submitted from across most Pacific Island countries over three months (March-May 2017), it was indeed a difficult task to select winners for the 2017 Pacific Year for the Oceans #myoceanmatters campaign. Winners were announced yesterday, after making a selection from the top 20 […]

Government representatives from Fiji, Papua New Guinea (PNG), Tonga and Tuvalu as well as development partners from the Pacific region met in Nadi, Fiji for a south-south learning programme to share lessons learnt and best practices on how certain countries have progressed in the establishment of their National Climate Funds (NCF). PIDF Secretary General, François

The Republic of Guinea acknowledged the accomplishments of the Pacific Islands Development Forum (PIDF) and the led role undertaken on the formulation of the Suva Declaration following a courtesy visit by the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Republic of Guinea, Honourable Sylla Senkoun, to the PIDF Secretariat on Thursday 28th April, 2016. The visit allowed PIDF

  WEDNESDAY 12TH April, 2017: The Pacific Islands Development Forum (PIDF) congratulates Ms. Ronna Sekiguchi of Green House Studio who was announced as the winner of the national COP23 official logo competition and also to the two runner up which included Shiristy Singh from Adi Cakobau School and Mark Philitoga from Nadi Muslim Primary School.

The NSDB is an important part of PIDF’s governance structure as they will become PIDF’s arm in their member countries, ensuring that there is coherence of policy between the needs at the national level and the policy formulation and related action at the regional level. It offers member countries a multi-stakeholder platform from which dialogue

MONDAY 1 MaY, 2017: Following a comprehensive consultation process with respective in country multi-stakeholder organisations, the Government of Tuvalu, led by the Prime Minister of Tuvalu, His Excellency Enele Sopoaga officially established their National Sustainable Development Board (NSDB) and reaffirmed their support to the Pacific Islands Development Forum (PIDF) at a Signing and Exchange of

MONDAY 1 MAY 2017: Marshall Islands and Solomon Islands have submitted a paper to the forthcoming meeting of the International Maritime Organisation (IMO) calling on shipping to show high ambition in tackling climate change causing emissions from shipping, in line with, Pacific Leaders calls for no more than 1.5 degrees warming. The paper is one

Following a comprehensive consultation process with respective in country multi-stakeholder organisations, the Governments of the Republic of Marshall Islands and Republic of Nauru officially established National Sustainable Development Boards (NSDBs) and reaffirmed their support to the Pacific Islands Development Forum (PIDF). The NSDBs are an important part of PIDF’s governance structure as they will become

Monday 6 March 2017: Today the visiting Norwegian Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs, Ms Tone Skogen, and Her Excellency Ms Unni Kløvstad, Ambassador of Norway, met with the PIDF Secretary General Mr François Martel at the PIDF HQ in Suva, the first such high level contact between the PIDF and Norway.   During the meeting

PIDF was represented by Anais Rouveyrol, Team Leader for Members and Partners Services for PIDF, attended the SPC Regional SDG Pacific Headline Indicators Meeting on 27 February – 2nd March 2017 in Noumea, New Caledonia. The Meeting debated on a list of Pacific SDG Headline Indicators in order to be tell the story of the