Kiribati’s commitment: A journey towards human rights progress
The Island's thirst: Empowering Kiritimati's journey to safe water
Regional education update: Development of Pacific’s recognised qualification in teaching
Education plays a crucial role in shaping the future of any society. The quality of education is directly linked to the competency of the teachers who deliver it. To ensure that students receive the best possible education, it is essential that teachers…
Unlocking Data Assets: Encouraging Re-use and Access to Survey Microdata
Peter Ellis, Director of the Pacific Community's (SPC) Statistics for Development Division, reflects on the multi-million-dollar assets that are surveys; how to encourage their re-use; and developing questions to deal with today's pressing issues like…
Tonga submits 4th Universal Periodic Review report
Rugby, household surveys and COVID-19
The Fiji Rugby Sevens Team continued to excel since the onset of COVID-19 - they won the 2020 Olympics, the World Rugby Sevens Series and are currently ranked 3rd in the world. At the same time, the Pacific National Statistics Offices have undertaken an…
New GeneXpert testing machines to give Fiji’s COVID screening efforts a boost
The COVID pandemic has created many challenges to Pacific health systems, among these is increasing demand for expanding for testing. Although testing facilities do exist in the Pacific, most were designed to screen primarily for TB. As a result, there…
Pacific response to COVID-19 is demonstrating power of regionalism
Health supplies being loaded for PNG as part of the PHP-C
The Pacific Heads of Health recently held a virtual meeting under the shadow of COVID-19. The tone was understandably sombre and serious. The crisis being faced across the globe has certainly not…
SPC Elected as Chair of the Global Civil Registration and Vital Statistics (CRVS) Group for 2020-21
The Statistics for Development Division is proud to announce that SPC has been elected unanimously as the Chair of the Global Civil Registration and Vital Statistics Group at a side event of the 2020 UN statistical Commission meeting in New York. SPC was…
Child rights in the Pacific: UN body concludes historic session in Samoa
In an historic extraordinary outreach session, the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child met government officials, UN agencies, civil society and children to discuss the situation of children’s rights in the Pacific.
“For many years, we spoke and…