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PROJECT DATA SHEET 1992

Project Name:

Formulation of UNDP Pacific Regional Programme 1992 – 96 : Pacific

Country:

Cook Islands, Federated States of Micronesia, Fiji, Kiribati, Marshall Islands, Nauru, Niue, Palau, PNG, Solomon Islands, Tonga, Tokelau, Tuvalu, Vanuatu, Western Samoa

Project Location within Country:

UNDP (Suva, Fiji, Port Moresby, PNG and Apia Western Samoa Offices)

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Name of Client:

United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)

Professional staff provided by your Company:

Principal Consultant

No. of Staff: 1

No. of Man-months: 9

Start Date: (Month/Year)

Pacific Regional Programme 1992-1996 :October 1991

Completion Date: (Month /Year)

March 1992

 

Name of associated firm(s) if any:

None

No. of man-months of professional staff provided by associated firm(s):

N/A.

Name of Senior Staff (Project Director/Coordinator: Team Leader) involved and function performed:

Fifth Pacific Regional Programme 1992-1996

Principal Consultant

As Team Leader he assisted in  planning and coordinating with the Pacific Island Countries, regional organisations and donors the development of 15 overall programmes outlines through a serious of missions and consultations. Each of the 15 overall programme outlines identified the specific national and regional needs in the relevant programme area before designing programmes to address the needs which could be best addressed at the regional level. To facilitate the collaboration of donors a matrix of donor intervention was developed to identify potential areas of complementarity and duplication in aid activities. Kolone Vaai had to also coordinate with the activities of the other UN Agencies and the UNDP New York for enhancing the complementarity of Pacific based UN activities.

Detailed Narrative Description of Project:

The project related to programming of US$22.4million of the 5th Cycle of the Asia/Pacific Inter-Country Programme for the UNDP Pacific member countries for 1992 - 96. The programming approach was an attempt to enhance the coordination at all levels of the regional aid programmes so that UNDP resources could be more effectively utilised. The programming exercise enabled the UNDP Pacific member countries to prioritise the implementation of regional programmes in the following areas:

  1. Population and Development
  2. Basic Education and Employable skills
  3. Family Health and Welfare : Food and Nutrition
  4. Water Supply and Sanitation
  5. Smallholder Agriculture and Farming Systems
  6. Private Sector and Small Enterprise Development
  7. Environmental Planning and Management for Sustainable Development
  8. Regional Fisheries
  9. Forestry Development
  10. Regional energy
  11. Telecommunications Training and development
  12. Disaster Mitigation, Preparedness and Response
  13. Economic and Financial Management Reforms

At the donor level, the matrix on opportunities for regional development cooperation facilitated coordination among donors for regional projects.

Detailed Description of Actual Services provided by your Company:

Refer to above