Technical Publications

The Phase 2 Joint Evaluation of the Paris Declaration: Cook Islands Country Study was conducted by a team of international and national evaluators working under the direction of the National Evaluation Coordinator and Senior Research Policy Advisor of the Aid Management Division, Ministry of Finance and Economic Management, Cook Islands Government. The first phase of the evaluation focused on inputs and early outputs. This second phase of the evaluation focuses on outcomes and results.

This project was prepared by the United Nation (UN). This project is intended to assist the Pacific island developing countries in developing their common customs tariff schedules in accordance with the international convention on the harmonized commodity descriptin and coding system under the auspices of the customs co-operation council (CCC) in brussels, which came into force in January 1988.

This work is part of the Waves and Coasts in the Pacific (WACOP) project, which is implemented by the Secretariat of the Pacific Community (SPC) in collaboration with the University of the South Pacific, UNESCO-IHE, the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, and the University of Auckland. This project is funded under the ACP Caribbean & Pacific Research Programme for Sustainable Development, a programme funded by the European Union (EU) and implemented by the African, Caribbean and Pacific Group of States (ACP Group).

This report was prepared as a part of “Resource Assessment Study for Wasteto-Energy Resources in Fiji” contracted by the Department of Energy (DoE), Government of Fiji and United Nations Development Programme (UNDP).

The “Resource Assessment Study for Waste-to-Energy Resources in Fiji” under the “Fiji Renewable Energy Power Project (FREPP) intends to quantify and assess the amount of waste resources available in Fiji for power generation and identify technology options for feasible implementation of waste to energy projects. The study aims to

Kiribati Cooking for Life Strategy. Prepared by the Energy Planning Unit of the Kiribati Ministry of Works and Public Utilities with assistance from the Energy Programme of the SPC. 

This report was prepared by the International Institute for Energy Conservation (IIEC). The document has been produced with the financial assistance of the Asian Development Bank.

This report was prepared by Tyler Szabo. This paper will focus on how improved energy provision could benefit Vanuatu’s rural industries and therefore generate additional income for rural communities. Specifically, it will document promising technology enhancements that could increase revenue for rural enterprises but that require a new or improved energy source. It will also document key existing programs that are focused on rural livelihood development and which could serve as strategic partners in a targeted rural energy plan.

This report was prepared by the International Institute for Energy Conservation (IIEC) in collaboration with Vanuatu Department of Energy & Meteorology, UNDP Pacific Centre, SPC CCCPIR Energy Component and the Vanuatu National Statistics Office for the Asian Development Bank and the Government of Vanuatu. The survey objectives were  to reduce data gaps regarding residential energy use in electrified urban households and use the information to develop initiatives  to assist households, reduce electrical energy use without compromising the quality of services.

This report was prepared by Castlerock Consulting Ltd for the World Bank Group. Electricity in Vanuatu is supplied via concessions granted by the Government to private utilities. Though reliability and quality of supply is excellent on Efate relative to other island nation utility peers, the high price of electricity and its limited reach has profound, adverse socioeconomic impacts on the country. Efate’s geothermal power potential offers such a prospect. Vanuatu has been the subject of geothermal prospecting since the 1970’s.

This report was prepared by World Bank. 1992 report. World Bank produced a series of reports on this dating back to 1985.