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Secretariat of the Pacific Community SPC/CRGA 34 Paper Series 2.2 ORIGINAL : ENGLISH SECRETARIAT OF THE PACIFIC COMMUNITY THIRTY-FOURTH MEETING OF THE COMMITTEE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF GOVERNMENTS AND ADMINISTRATIONS (Noumea, New Caledonia, 16-19 November 2004) SOCIAL RESOURCES DIVISION REPORT (Paper presented by the Secretariat) 1. The mission of the Social Resources Division (SRD) is defined as: “Working to maximise the development potential of Pacific Island people in health, culture and information, and to enhance the empowerment of women and young people.” 2. The Division comprises a very wide range of programmes and sections, some of which report to the Senior Deputy-Director General, as they too operate from Suva. This report will not try to cover all the SRD’s programmes and sections, but will focus on the rationalisation achieved in the Division’s work and on certain major activities undertaken in 2004. Annex 1 offers a more detailed account of programme activities. 2004 will be remembered for some major initiatives in multiple programme integration. 3. This report highlights four of the main directions pursued by the Division in 2004, in line with the strategic priorities of the SPC Corporate Plan 2003-2005. 4. It has helped member countries and territories build their capacity to base their strategic and policy decisions on quality information, as an essential pre-requisite to good governance. 5 Through enhanced programmes, it has striven to help member countries and territories to effectively combat the recurrent and emerging perils that threaten the health of Pacific Islanders, as recommended by the 2nd Conference of the Pacific Community. 6 It has worked to help construct harmonious Pacific Island societies through the development of strategic, legal and policy frameworks and new skills to permit women and young people to take part in national development through the full expression of their potential and by protecting Pacific identities. 7 It has gone ahead with its appraisal of the impact of regional strategies and its programmes, in order to optimise the impact of its technical input, its advisory capacities and its financial. Paper Series 2.2 Page 2 I – Collecting, disseminating, analysing and utilising quality information 8. The pessimistic diagnosis prevailing for some time now about the quality of the statistical information available in Pacific Island states and territories, whether economic, social or environmental, was confirmed during the regional reporting process on the Millennium Development Goals (MDG) coordinated by SPC at the request of UNDP and the Council of Regional Organisations in the Pacific (CROP). 9. The purpose of the Millennium Declaration, a United Nations’ initiative from which the MDG emerged in 2000 and to which the Pacific Island countries have subscribed, was to identify a limited number of key goals at the international level in order to meet the challenges of development and fight increasing poverty in the context of globalisation. The regional report draws on data gathered in 15 Pacific Island states, with the cooperation of National Statistics Offices and other national, CROP and UN agencies. Despite the difficulty of analysing often incomplete and sometimes contradictory data and the major disparities between Pacific Island countries, the report underscores the significant progress achieved in the Pacific Islands region in pursuing the eight MDG, some of which have been reached or even passed in this region. It does, however, also reveal very slow progress in some areas such as the status of women and causes for concern in terms of emerging poverty (or hardship), new public health threats and low achievements in the educational sector (for more information on the report, please see information paper 6). 10. The report also contains recommendations to PICT and regional organisations, urging them to define indicators specific to the particular needs and aspirations of countries of the region. 11. Implementation of the MDG means that the MDG and their relevant targets and indicators are made part of the national planning process. The SPC opted to advocate such a planning and monitoring process when it decided to make the MDG a strategic priority in the 2003-2005 Corporate Plan. In 2004, the Social Resources Division developed an ambitious strategy for this purpose by bringing together most of its technical programmes in the SPC MDG Task Force. 12. The Statistics and Population/Demography programmes have played a key part in SPC’s MDG support work. 13. PRISM, the regional statistical data bank, expanded considerably in 2004. The 19 countries and territories concerned by this project have agreed to compile and publish all the standard indicators, including the MDG-related ones. By providing NSOs with a single system (Adobewriter) and training users in website creation and management, the PRISM team has increased its capacity for swift electronic publishing of statistics. Also, AusAID has decided to commit three further years of funding to this project, which will enable it to consolidate the required skills in member countries and territories so as to sustain PRISM. The excellent PRISM website visitor figures confirm this project’s impact. Paper Series 2.2 Page 3 14. The Statistics Programme’s training and technical advisory efforts were kept up in all areas, economic statistics in particular, and will contribute directly and indirectly to the development of PRISM and the advancement of the MDG. The Statistics Programme has also played a leading role in launching the Poverty Fund initiative, financed by the Asian Development Bank, while hosting two specialists who will help include poverty-measuring parameters in national planning and budget processes and statistical poverty data in the PRISM system. 15. Improving data analysis regarding population and social statistics in general, in connection with recent censuses and demographic profiles, to which it often contributed, were some of the major tasks carried out by the Population/Demography Programme in 5 PICTs in 2004, plus cross- sectoral cooperation within the SRD (Womenn’s Bureau, Adolescent Reproductive Health) 16. The Population Geographical Information System initiative is being pursued. It enables planners and other decision-makers to be more receptive to statistical information, and to be better prepared to analyse it with a high-quality, easy-access tool, which can be applied at national, provincial, local and other levels. The system has been developed in four countries (FSM, Kiribati, Samoa and Vanuatu) and will be introduced into the Solomons in the near future. Even though British (DFID) funding for the GIS project has ended, this programme will endeavour to continue with the development of the system in 2005, funding permitting, to assist other countries and territories wishing to introduce such a system. 17. SPC has also agreed to implement a UNFPA-funded sub-regional population project over the next three years. The Programme’s human resources will be increased accordingly and this additional project will contribute to the achievement of the general goals of the SPC Population/Demography Programme, as its task will be to pursue the inclusion of population parameters in SPC member states’ and territories’ policies and budgets. 18. National youth policy development and the Pacific Women’s Bureau-led appraisal of progress on implementing the Pacific platform of Action (PPA) have revealed serious gaps in available national statistical data on youth and the status of women, as confirmed in the regional MDG report. 19. The same realisation applies to the statistics available to national public health services. The three sectoral programmes concerned have begun strategic thinking in close consultation with the statistics and/or population/demography programmes on improving sectoral information. This thinking has already led to some capacity-building initiatives, in health surveillance and more specifically tuberculosis control. It is anticipated that PRISM will eventually host sectoral databases, while the Public Health Programme would like to promote the use of the GIS for health data in the Pacific. All these current linkages also take practical shape within the MDG Task Force, as mentioned above. Paper Series 2.2 Page 4 20. The Task Force comprises the Statistics Programme, including the Poverty Assessment Project, the Population/Demography Programme, the Public Health Programme, the Pacific Women’s Bureau (PWB) and the Pacific Youth Bureau (PYB), who have set themselves the following goals, when so requested by countries and territories, through a pragmatic approach to MDG development: enhance the quality of statistics; contribute to the identification of relevant targets and indicators, through direct collaboration in-country with NSOs, planning offices and sectoral departments and by promoting a participatory approach to the MDGs;data dissemination, especially through PRISM; develop data analysis skills; encourage the use of these data and the development of appropriate policies by decision-makers. 21. Following a series of preparatory meetings, a visit will be paid to Tuvalu and Vanuatu by the Task Force early in 2005. The Land and Marine Resources Divisions are both considering ways in which they could be involved in this project. UN agencies have already joined in-country missions with the Task Force and CROP agencies have also been invited to join. II - A strong response to major public health risks in the Pacific Islands 22. The theme of the
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