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Proposed Project Objective: Enhanced use of data for decision making in the environment sector throughout the Pacific region. Building on the tools and momentum the Inform project established, this scaled up project will expand the user base and fill significant gaps including in situ monitoring, increased partnerships between the environment ministries and other ministries, increase use of spatial tools, and the establishment of standardise environmental standards and key indicators for key resources.

Overview of Plastics Integrated Program, engagement opportunities and timeline as presented by sabelle Vanderbeck from the UNEP at the Cook Islands GEF-8 National Dialogue on the 19th & 20th April 2023.

Slides as presented by Andrew Hume from the GEF Secretariat at the Cook Islands National Dialogue on the 19th & 20th April 2023

Results of the group activity (Day 2, Session 3) to discuss national priorities and issues that can be addressed with GEF-8 resources, as presented by each table at the Cook Islands GEF-8 National Dialogue on the 19th and 20th April 2023. 

Concept note submitted on behalf of the Cook Islands for the national child project under the Circular Solutions to Plastic GEF-8 Integrated Programme, project titled: Reducing Single-use Plastic in Small-island Economies. 

Slides for Day 1, Session 1, Session 3 and Session 4, presented by NES at the Cook Islands National Dialogue on 19th April 2023

Slides as presented by NES (Session 1, 2 & 3) on day 2 of the Cook Islands GEF-8 National Dialogue, 20th April 2023

Report consolidating the discussions and presentations of the Cook Islands GEF-8 National Dialogue, hosted by the National Environment Service in partnership with the Global Environment Facility on the 19th & 20th of April 2023 at the Edgwater Resort in Rarotonga, Cook Islands.

History in Prehistory The Oral Traditions of the Rarotongan Land Court Records MATTHEW CAMPBELL 2002

Pacific Island Migration and Loss of Traditional Knowledge (Te Pa Mataiapo) 2004

The body size of adult Cook Islanders on Rarotonga for the years 1952, 1966 and 1996 has been increasing. The rate of increase in stature of women aged 20–39 years was 0.5 cm per decade across the period 1952–1966, and 0.8 cm per decade for the period 1966–1996. The rate of increase of weight in the 20–29 years age group was 0.6 kg per decade in period 1, and 7.3 kg per decade in period 2. In the age group 30–39 years, the rates were 3.2 kg per decade and 5.1 kg per decade respectively.

Our Land Our Languages Language Learning in Indigenous Communities House of Representatives
Standing Committee on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Affairs 2012