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Implementing the Mauritius
Strategy+5
A Pacific regional perspective on implementing the
priorities articulated in the Mauritius Strategy and
MSI+5
Tuiloma Neroni Slade
Secretary General
Pacific Islands Forum Secretariat
The Pacific Region
The Pacific Way in implementing the MSI
The Mauritius Strategy and Pacific Plan: coherence
1 in time and development objectives
Pacific Plan a practical integration and translation
2 of Mauritius Strategy
Reform and streamlining of regional organisations
3 to deliver better outcomes for the region a key focus
of the Pacific Plan
The Pacific Plan
For strengthening regional cooperation and integration
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• A ‘living’ Plan implemented by way of establishing a
regional process of integrated policy and decision making for
sustainable development
•Inclusive of national and regional stakeholders
•Annual reporting, monitoring, evaluation and refinement
processes
•Significant developments over last 5 years in key areas
such as transport, energy, climate change, ICT, ocean
management.
Pacific Plan & Development Effectiveness
Pacific Plan guides development partners to better
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understand region
– And where best to focus their efforts and assistance
2 Supported by the Cairns Compact to strengthen
development coordination and effectiveness
– Support to strengthen Member States planning and
financial systems
– Fostering donor harmonization and aid effectiveness
– Ultimately, to strengthen and ensure effective whole of
government and non-government sector Partnerships!
IMPLEMENTING THE MSI+5
DECLARATION
Accommodating the Challenges and
Vulnerabilities of SIDS
Support to SIDS must take into account the specific
1 challenges, constraints and vulnerabilities that they
face
• Acknowledgments of the Barbados Programme of
Action and its implementation strategy, the MSI, call for a
matching commitment of action
2 SIDS-tailored approaches are required that recognise
and take into account their special needs and
circumstances
Specific Challenges of Pacific Island Countries
1 Pacific Island Countries face all the acknowledged
vulnerabilities of SIDS - Small size, narrow resource and export
base, exposure to global forces, natural disasters, limited capacity
2 In addition they face particular challenges isolated in
the large expanse of the Pacific Ocean
•Extreme isolation – challenges trade, transport, tourism, cost of
imports and fuel
•Exposure to oceanic elements – natural disasters, cyclones, sea
level rise and storm surges
•Young countries – facing contemporary challenges of nationhood,
and adaptive needs to strong traditional tenure systems of land and
property holdings
Why Regional level intervention is important
1 The Pacific Plan and its regional architecture focus on
overcoming the vulnerabilities of our Pacific Island
Countries.
Interventions are designed to address the special
2 circumstances of Pacific Island Countries
-Climate change – vast array of issues, human security in particular
-Geographic isolation – ICT, sea and air infrastructure
-Energy security – bulk procurement, conservation
-Fisheries and management of oceanic resources
The way forward for the Pacific
1. Improved access to international financing
2. SIDS – SIDS partnerships
3. Strengthening development coordination
4. Improved coordination and engagement with UN
system
5. Sustained focus on the effort and outcomes at the
national level