#PacificAgriculture | 🌳 9th Regional Meeting of Pacific Heads of Agriculture and Forestry Services 🌎 #PHOAFS

🗣️Day 3: countries & partners' statements of key highlights & priorities;
Rare opportunity to hear directly from sector leaders in one forum👏
FAO Pacific-@TongaPortal

#PacificAgriculture | 🌳 9th Regional Meeting of Pacific Heads of Agriculture and Forestry Services 🌎 #PHOAFS
Day 2: 📈 Implementation progress of #SPC regional services 📋 reports & recs by technical bodies on SPC progress 🔍 Technical deep dive.
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#HappeningNow | 🌀 Shoe covers can only mean one thing..... visit of the Centre for Pacific #Crops & #trees (CePaCT) 🤝 Welcome to our peers from Oxfam in the Pacific !

#DYK that some crops conserved in the growth room date back to the Centre's creation in 1998? #thriving 😎

#PacificAgriculture I Today is the International Day of Plant Health. This year, we call on everyone to raise awareness and take action to keep our plants healthy and help protect the environment and biodiversity. 🌿

#PlantHealthDay #LRD

#PacificHealth | 🔍A disease risk assessment and evaluation of the surveillance system was held in Papeete, French Polynesia last week in preparation for the upcoming Olympic Games Surfing event.

🤝 Pacific Community Présidence de la Polynésie française Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade 🇦🇺

#FrenchPolynesia #HealthSurveillance #OlympicGames

#HappeningNow | Guided by regional development experts, participants at the PYC convening are collaboratively mapping opportunities on frameworks and partnerships that can advance both youth and regional development.

Youth representatives from 14 #Pacific countries & territories are coming together to elect the new Pacific Youth Council Board of Directors. Today we pave the way for a revitalised PYC & demonstrate the importance of ensuring youth are at the forefront of decisions & development

The youth brought their spirit and smiles to the second day of the PYC convening, ensuring their voices were heard and their presence felt. On today's agenda, we're reflecting on governance, assessing, and strengthening institutional capacity for youth councils.

The Regional CBFM Workshop is officially underway at Tanoa International Hotel in Nadi.

PEUMP Programme Coordinator Martin Chong opened the session this morning with over 70 participants from across the region in attendance.

#CBFM24

International trade plays a crucial role in the economic development of all countries and even more for the Pacific Islands Countries.
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#PacificFisheries | SPC PEUMP Gender and Human Rights Specialist, Ms Natalie Makhoul delivered her deliberation on counting women's contributions and socio-economic benefits during the plenary session at the GESI in Fisheries Symposium in Honiara.

EU Pacific 🇪🇺 #GESI #PEUMP

#Pacific Agriculture | 🌱 #Taro is a major staple in the Pacific, highly impacted by #ClimateChange . Scientists of the project “Identification of #Drought Tolerant Taro Varieties” are screening taro all over the #Pacific for water stress-response💧
Duty collection trip to Taveuni🇫🇯

Biosecurity officials from 15 Pacific member countries are in Fiji this week to attend the ‘Early Warning Systems and Biosecurity Emergency Response Planning Workshop. Honorable Prime Minister of Fiji, officiated at the regional event.

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One of main aims of the Early Warning Systems (EWS) and the Emergency Response Planning (ERP) workshop is to: 🎆 To enhance participants’ knowledge and capabilities to prevent the entry, establishment and spread of plant pests and diseases #LRD #PacifiAgri

#PacificHealth | Biomedical engineers from14 #PICTs are currently in a Disability Inclusion Awareness Training (DIAT) as part of the 6TH Pacific Biomedical Engineering Network meeting that commences tomorrow in Nadi #Fiji .

#HappeningNow Representatives from 15 Pacific countries under the EU funded #SAFE Pacific project are in Fiji for the Biosecurity Emergency Response and Early Warning Systems' workshop.

#Happeningnow #PacificPeoples a workshop in #RMI
in partnership with @GovtofRMI is discussing the findings from a disability accessibility survey done in #RMI last year. supported by USAID Pacific Islands #PROJECTGovernance

Need for sign language intepretation at polling venues, accessible voting stations and role of social media in helping persons w/disabilities were issues raised today as part of a workshop for a survey done on persons with disabilities in #RMI supported by USAID Pacific Islands

'By strengthening NHRIs, we empower communities to engage in decision-making that affect their lives, laying the foundation for accountable & responsive governance' Roger Sydney of@usaidpacificislat opening of a workshp for #NHRIs supported@usaidpacificisl@APFHumanRights

#HappeningNow I Evaluation and review of the Pacific Awareness and Response to Coconut Rhinoceros Beetle #PARC project underway today. The project is on its last phase this year with an independent review team visiting recipient member countries under the Project New Zealand Ministry of Foreign Affairs & Trade