SIS Desk Officers Help Implement Pacific Plan
SIS Desk Officers
PRESS STATEMENT
22 August 2006
SIS DESK OFFICERS URGED TO HELP IMPLEMENT PACIFIC PLAN.
Desk Officers appointed in Small Island States (SIS) of the Pacific Islands Forum have been strongly urged to assist their national governments with the implementation of the Pacific Plan.
The central part of your job will be to take the Pacific Plan and assist your governments to translate the Plan into your respective national plan frameworks and identify priority areas needing the support of the Forum Secretariat, Greg Urwin, Secretary General of the Forum Secretariat said when welcoming the Desk Officers at their Orientation Programme being held this week at the Secretariat in Suva, Fiji.
We envisage that you will make your services available to all the other regional organizations as they move towards decentralising their functions from the regional to the national level, Mr Urwin said.
The Forum Secretariat has already appointed SIS Desk Officers in Cook Islands, Nauru, Niue and Republic of Marshall Islands. Appointments are yet to be made for Kiribati, Palau and Tuvalu. The Desk Officers are to provide the crucial link between Pacific Islands Forum Secretariat (PIFS) and SIS member countries with principal responsibility of channeling those regional initiatives in the Pacific Plan into national processes.
The work of the SIS Desk Officers will be coordinated by an SIS Officer located at PIFS in Suva, Fiji.
During the week long orientation, the SIS Desk Officers will be briefed on issues including the Pacific Plan, Regionalism, the SIS Unit, national mechanisms, designing of national policies on regionalism and CROP agencies. They will also attend a two-day meeting of the Pacific Plan Action Committee to be held in Nadi, 24 - 25 August.
Ends.
For more information, please contact Ms Patricia Sachs-Cornish, the Forum Development Cooperation Adviser on phone (679) 331 2600.
PRESS STATEMENT
22 August 2006
SIS DESK OFFICERS URGED TO HELP IMPLEMENT PACIFIC PLAN.
Desk Officers appointed in Small Island States (SIS) of the Pacific Islands Forum have been strongly urged to assist their national governments with the implementation of the Pacific Plan.
The central part of your job will be to take the Pacific Plan and assist your governments to translate the Plan into your respective national plan frameworks and identify priority areas needing the support of the Forum Secretariat, Greg Urwin, Secretary General of the Forum Secretariat said when welcoming the Desk Officers at their Orientation Programme being held this week at the Secretariat in Suva, Fiji.
We envisage that you will make your services available to all the other regional organizations as they move towards decentralising their functions from the regional to the national level, Mr Urwin said.
The Forum Secretariat has already appointed SIS Desk Officers in Cook Islands, Nauru, Niue and Republic of Marshall Islands. Appointments are yet to be made for Kiribati, Palau and Tuvalu. The Desk Officers are to provide the crucial link between Pacific Islands Forum Secretariat (PIFS) and SIS member countries with principal responsibility of channeling those regional initiatives in the Pacific Plan into national processes.
The work of the SIS Desk Officers will be coordinated by an SIS Officer located at PIFS in Suva, Fiji.
During the week long orientation, the SIS Desk Officers will be briefed on issues including the Pacific Plan, Regionalism, the SIS Unit, national mechanisms, designing of national policies on regionalism and CROP agencies. They will also attend a two-day meeting of the Pacific Plan Action Committee to be held in Nadi, 24 - 25 August.
Ends.
For more information, please contact Ms Patricia Sachs-Cornish, the Forum Development Cooperation Adviser on phone (679) 331 2600.
