Technical Publications

Herewith Tuvalu National Gender Policy: Strategic Plan of Action 2014-2016.

The three-year Strategic Plan of Action proposes a series of outputs and key actions in order to achieve the outcomes of the National Policy on Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment. Its implementation requires the active contribution of the Government and civil society organisations. The outcomes and outputs proposed must be incorporated and addressed in the national policy and programmes in every sector and need to be part of annual plans.

This report highlights Vanuatu Utility Authority independent review and assesment in Tanna and Malekula concession.

Executive Summary

The aim of this paper is to provide a comprehensive review of the fuel price as input in the calculation of electricity prices paid by customers in Vanuatu. The report describes the supply chain and pricing mechanism for fuel used in electricity generation, together with the findings and conclusions of investigations by the team

Fourth  report of the Utilities Regulatory Authority (URA) on electricity bills (electricity tariff) comparisons for the Pacfic countries and territories. Report uses spot currency exchange rates in June 2016,since the trend in rankings is only meaningful by holding exchange rates constant at the last version of the report. 

Source: http://www.ura.gov.vu/

Fifth report of the Utilities Regulatory Authority (URA) on electricity bills (electricity tariff) comparisons for the Pacfic countries and territories. Report uses spot currency exchange rates in January 2017,since the trend in rankings is only meaningful by holding exchange rates constant at the last version of the report. 

Source: http://www.ura.gov.vu/

This is a publication of the Government of Nauru.This report was prepared by Doug Oldfield, Robert Brown, Christine Chan and John Carter as individual consultants under the guidance and support of the Pacific Region Infrastructure Facility (PRIF) in Sydney, Australia.

The following report represents the second, “quantitative” assessment of the impact of the Price Reporting Agencies Principles on the physical market in 2015.

The North Pacific ACP (Africa, Caribbean and Pacific) Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Project (North-­‐REP) provided technical assistance and partnered with the Action for the Development of Marshall Islands Renewable Energies (ADMIRE) project to install wind resource monitoring equipment in Jaluit, Republic of the Marshall Islands.

Wind monitoring equipment and data collection is being carried out by the Marshalls Energy Company.

The cost of service and tariff study conducted for the 

The area of the island Pohnpei was mapped with very high resolution image data (VHR), which allows: a) a stratification of the coconut area into three different densities; and b) a counting of coconut palms from the image data.

This is very precise synoptic information and provides a clear picture of the area. There was cloud cover over about one third of the island preventing image analysis, however, this was mostly in the mountain region where coconut palms are not planted.