CROP Work Together On Pacific Plan Implementation
CROP work together on Pacific Plan implementation
10th August 2006
The chief executive officers of the Council of Regional Organizations of the Pacific (CROP) have agreed to pull together their resources to assist the implementation of the Pacific Plan at the national level throughout the region.
From the reports on the implementation of the Pacific Plan so far it is clear that Forum members need assistance at the national level in setting up mechanisms for the implementation of the Plan, Greg Urwin, Secretary General of the Pacific Islands Forum and Chairman of the CROP said.
CROP agencies have agreed to work together on this. The Forum is setting up liaison offices in some of the member countries for this purpose. At the same time CROP agencies who already have representation in the PICs are willing to use their offices for the same purpose.
This is a very good example of how CROP agencies can work together to improve the capacity of member countries in the implementation of their regional commitments. After all, the CROP agencies are serving the same people, Mr Urwin said.
The CROP annual meeting has also agreed to collaborate on developing a reporting mechanism to assist member countries in meeting their regional and international obligations.
A key objective of this is to ease the reporting burden that is being put on Pacific island governments by the many regional and international commitments they have signed into, Mr Urwin said.
Papua New Guinea's Ambassador and Chair of the Pacific Islands Forum Group in New York, Robert Aisi also attended the meeting to brief the CROP Heads on key international concerns of the Pacific and to discuss how regional organizations can assist with the representation of the Region at the international level.
CROP Heads were also briefed on the consultations so far on the review of the Regional Institutional Framework, the status of the regional 10th European Development Fund (EDF) and the work of CROP Working Groups.
A report on the decisions of the CROP meeting will go before the Forum Officials Committee meeting in early October and then to the Forum Leaders at their meeting in Tonga at the end of October.
The two-day Apia CROP meeting, hosted by the Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Program (SPREP) was attended by the CEOs of the Fiji School of Medicine (FSMed), the Forum Fisheries Agencies (FFA), the Pacific Islands Forum Secretariat, (PIFS), the Secretariat of the Pacific Community (SPC), the South Pacific Applied Geoscience Commission (SOPAC), the South Pacific Board for Education Assessment (SPBEA), the South Pacific Tourism Organization (SPTO), and the University of the South Pacific (USP).
ENDS.
10th August 2006
The chief executive officers of the Council of Regional Organizations of the Pacific (CROP) have agreed to pull together their resources to assist the implementation of the Pacific Plan at the national level throughout the region.
From the reports on the implementation of the Pacific Plan so far it is clear that Forum members need assistance at the national level in setting up mechanisms for the implementation of the Plan, Greg Urwin, Secretary General of the Pacific Islands Forum and Chairman of the CROP said.
CROP agencies have agreed to work together on this. The Forum is setting up liaison offices in some of the member countries for this purpose. At the same time CROP agencies who already have representation in the PICs are willing to use their offices for the same purpose.
This is a very good example of how CROP agencies can work together to improve the capacity of member countries in the implementation of their regional commitments. After all, the CROP agencies are serving the same people, Mr Urwin said.
The CROP annual meeting has also agreed to collaborate on developing a reporting mechanism to assist member countries in meeting their regional and international obligations.
A key objective of this is to ease the reporting burden that is being put on Pacific island governments by the many regional and international commitments they have signed into, Mr Urwin said.
Papua New Guinea's Ambassador and Chair of the Pacific Islands Forum Group in New York, Robert Aisi also attended the meeting to brief the CROP Heads on key international concerns of the Pacific and to discuss how regional organizations can assist with the representation of the Region at the international level.
CROP Heads were also briefed on the consultations so far on the review of the Regional Institutional Framework, the status of the regional 10th European Development Fund (EDF) and the work of CROP Working Groups.
A report on the decisions of the CROP meeting will go before the Forum Officials Committee meeting in early October and then to the Forum Leaders at their meeting in Tonga at the end of October.
The two-day Apia CROP meeting, hosted by the Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Program (SPREP) was attended by the CEOs of the Fiji School of Medicine (FSMed), the Forum Fisheries Agencies (FFA), the Pacific Islands Forum Secretariat, (PIFS), the Secretariat of the Pacific Community (SPC), the South Pacific Applied Geoscience Commission (SOPAC), the South Pacific Board for Education Assessment (SPBEA), the South Pacific Tourism Organization (SPTO), and the University of the South Pacific (USP).
ENDS.
