Mapping Fiji’s forest cover with the help of satellite imagery

Wednesday 8 February, 2012, Secretariat of the Pacific Community (SPC), Suva

SPC is working with the Fiji Department of Forestry to build capacity in using very high resolution satellite images to map land and forest cover in Fiji. The programme will include ‘ground truthing’ exercises (on-site verification of data from satellite imagery) in Drawa, Vanua Levu – a model area for sustainable natural resource management that covers about 6,400 hectares of indigenous forest. The satellite images will be used to classify the Drawa forest into different forest types. This information will help in estimating forest carbon stocks and will contribute to REDD+ (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation).

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SPC — Serving the region for 65 years

Monday 6 February  2012, Secretariat of the Pacific Community (SPC), Noumea

On 6 February 1947, the governments of Australia, France, Great Britain, the Netherlands, New Zealand and the United States of America signed the Canberra Agreement that established the South Pacific Commission, now called the Secretariat of the Pacific Community (SPC).

Monday 6 February was SPC’s 65th birthday.

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Independent external review of SPC

Monday 30 January 2012, Secretariat of the Pacific Community (SPC), Noumea
Over the next three months, a seven-member team will conduct an independent external review of the Secretariat of the Pacific Community (SPC).

The review, beginning the first week of February, will consider SPC in the context of its broader role in regional development. The team will examine SPC’s focus, governance, management, mode of delivery, financing and performance monitoring and make recommendations on the organisation’s core business; governance, decision-making and membership; organisational structure; strategic planning; priority setting; business practices; financial management; resources; and performance monitoring and assessment.

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Expert Reference Group to assist in determining SPC’s core functions

Friday 13 January 2012, Secretariat of the Pacific Community (SPC), Noumea

 

From 16 to 27 January, a team known as the expert reference group (ERG) will conduct a review of the services that SPC divisions and programmes provide to its member countries and territories, with a view to refining and contextualising the core services that SPC should focus on and deliver in the long term.

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