FIJI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE [ FSchM]

• Base: Suva, Fiji Islands
• Members: Fiji line ministries, members of healty professions, representatives of USP, Pacific representatives from Melanesia, Polynesia and Micronesia.
• FSchM was founded in 1885, autonomous in 1998.
• The FSchM Council, headed by the Chairperson, is the governing body.
• Website: http://www.fsm.ac.fj
• Contact: Fiji School of Medicine, Private Mail Bag, Suva. or Hoodless House, Brown St., Suva, Fiji Islands.

SOUTH PACIFIC APPLIED GEOSCIENCE COMMISSION [ SOPAC ]

• Base: Suva, Fiji Islands
• Members: Australia, New Zealand, American Samoa, Cook Is., FSM, Fiji, Samoa, Solomon Is., French Polynisia, Guam, Kiribati, Marshall Is., Nauru, Tuvalu, New Caledonia, Nuie, Vanuatu, Tonga, and Papua New Guinea.
• It was originally called CCOP-SOPAC, a UN programme to promote offshore mineral and petroleum prospecting. Founded in 1972 and became autonomous in 1984. Original focus has broadened its scope and capabilities to include risk management, environmental vulnerability, energy, water and sanitation, and information and communication technologies.
• Website: http://www.sopac.org
• Contact: Private Mail Bag, GPO Suva, Fiji Islands.

SOUTH PACIFIC BOARD FOR EDUCATIONAL ASSESSMENT [ SPBEA ]

• Base: Suva, Fiji Islands
• Members: Australia, Fiji, Kiribati, Nauru, New Zealand, Solomon Is., Samoa, Tokelau, Tonga, Tuvalu and Vanuatu
• In November 1964 a resolution was passed at te SPC Second Regional Education Seminar to set up a working party to investigate, the establishment of a regional examination board. An agreement was signed on the 14th of November, 1980, after 16 years of meeting and discussions.
• Website: http://www.spbea.org.fj
• Contact: P.O.Box 2083, Government Buildings, Suva, Fiji Islands.

SECRETARIAT OF THE PACIFIC COMMUNITY [ SPC ]

• Base: Headquaters - Noumea, New Caledonia; Regional Office - Suva, Fiji Islands
• SPC is the oldest regional organisation in the Pacific, SPC was established in 1947, as the South Pacific Commission, by the 6 governments that administered territories in the Pacific: Australia, France, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom and the United States. Now all 22 countries and territories are full members, along with the 5 remaining founding powers, for the Netherlands is no longer a member.
• SPC's governing council is the Conference of the Pacific Community, which meets every two years. SPC's contact points are with a wide variety of government departments such as health, agriculture, women and youth and fisheries.
• Website: http://www.spc.int
• Contact: BP D5, 98848 Noumea Cedex, New Caledonia.

PACIFIC ISLANDS FORUM SECRETARIATE [ PIFS ]

• Base: Suva, Fiji Islands.
• Members: 16 independent and self governing countries: Australia, Cook Islands, Federated States of Micronesia, Fiji Islands, Kiribati, Nauru, New Zealand, Niue, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Marshall Islands, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tonga, Tuvalu and Vanuatu.
• The Pacific Islands Forum Secretariate began in 1972 as a trade bureau, later the South Pacific Bureau for Economic Cooperation (SPEC). The namen changed in 1988 to the South Pacific Forum Secretariate, until the current name was adopted in 2000.
• Website: .fj
• Contact: Pacific Island Forum Secretariat, Private Mail Bag, Suva, Fiji Islands.

UNIVERSITY OF THE SOUTH PACIFIC [ USP ]

• Base: Suva, Fiji Islands
• Members: Cook Is., Fiji Is., Kiribati, Marshall Islands, Nauru, Niue, Samoa, Solomon Is., Tokelau, Tonga, Tuvalu and Vanuatu
• Established in 1968 by the Privy Council of the United Kingdom, at the request of the Pacific Island leaders to meet the training and development needs of the newly emerging island states of the Pacific and to strengthern institutional capacity in the region.
• The USP Council is its governing body. It meets twice annually.
• Website: http://www.usp.ac.fj
• Contact: The Vice Chancellor, University of the South Pacific, Suva, Fiji Islands.

SOUTH PACIFIC TOURISM ORGANISATION [ SPTO ]

• Base: Suva, Fiji Islands.
• Members: American Samoa, Cook Is.,Fiji Is., French Polynesia (Tahiti), Kiribati, New Caledonia, Niue, papua New Guinea, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tonga, Tuvalu and Vanuatu. SPTO has close to 80 private sector members or Tourism Industry Members (TIMS)
• In the early 1980s an informal association of national tourist organisations in the South Pacific formed the Tourism Council of the South Pacific (TCSP), which became a regional intergovernmental organisation in 1989, based in Suva, Fiji Islands. In OCtober 1999, the organisation was renamed South Pacific Tourism Organisation (SPTO).
• Website: http://www.spto.org
• Contact: P.O.Box 13119, Suva, Fiji Islands.