Forum Compact - A Pacific Regional Enabling Mechanism to Achieve Sustainable Development
Pacific Islands Forum Secretariat
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Description
The implementation of the compact is through various partnerships across the key initiatives of the Compact. For MDGs Tracking, the PIFS partners with representatives of FICs (Nauru, Tonga, PNG, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Vanuatu) and technical agencies (SPC, UNESCAP, UNDP, ADB, Australia, New Zeland) to prepare the annual Regional MDGs Report. The PIFS works closely with National MDGs focal points and SPC to validate country data annually.The Peer Rewiews is an engagement between neighouring Pacific FICs and with their development partners. Facilitated and managed by the PIFS, the peer reviews are conducted through mutual respect and partnership between FICs and with their development partners. Around 40 senior officials from FICs and development partners have served on 13 FICs peer reviews without which the peer reviews would not have progressed as well as they had.Annual FICs and development partner reporting on key national and regional indicators on development coordination is managed by the PIFS.The Annual Private Sector High Level Dialogue is coordinated and managed by the PIFS in close collaboration with the Pacific private sector organisations.
A longstanding development challenge in the Pacific is limited capacities in terms of numbers, capacities and skills as well as depth of that caapcity in the Pacific SIDS.The Forum Compact, through the National Sustainable Development Strategy Partnership Group(NSDSPG), will be a regional coordination mechanism to provide more coherent support to FICS through capacity development assistance from a mix of short, medium and long term initiatives that include: south-south / triangular cooperation or attachments among FICs, short term Technical Assistance, targeted country/sub regional/regional training, sustained ongoing mentoring programs in selected areas, capacity supplementation (over medium to long term) and institutional strengthening programs. FICs had found value in the practical and context specific approach of the peer reviews and requested to use this modality to further assist in strengthening their systems and human resource capacities. The Pacific at the 2013 PIC-Development Partners meeting, the FEMM 2013, PPAC 2013 and FOC 2013 agreed on a regional initiative of South-South Cooperation. The South-South Attachments allow FICs that require further capacity building to learn from selected counterpart countries to contribute to reinforcing country leadership over the establishment of national priorities, and enhance capacity to guide the use of all development resources – both domestic and external.Through the NSDS Partnership Group, PIFS and/or other FICs will be available to help facilitate new aid policies and broker inclusive and accountable partnerships for development. While it is one country’s sovereign right to negotiate arrangements with donor organisations and other countries, an impartial and experienced partnership broker can promote a richer and more useful discussion
The Pacific Island Forum Leaders tasked the Pacific Islands Forum Secrtariat to facilitate/coordinate the implementation of the Forum Compact across the Forum Islands Countries and their development partners. They asked for annual reporting by the PIFS on progress of implementation and any early results through two regional reports; 1) Pacific Regional MDGs Tracking Report; and the 2) Tracking the Effectiveness of Development Efforts Report. Every year, the PIFS and region reports to 4 key regional meetings; 1) Pacific Island Countries and Development Partners Meeting; 2) The Forum Economic Ministers Meetings; 3) the Forum Officials Committee; and culminates at the 4) Forum Leaders Meetings.For the FICs peer reviews, the PIFS undertakes a follow up visit 1 year after completion of the Peer Review to track actions and implmentation progress and report to the PIF leaders at their annual leaders meeting.
Development Partners & Organisations : ADB, EU, France, German Society for International Cooperation (GIZ), Israel, Japan, Republic of Korea, Secretariat of the Pacific Community, Thailand, Turkey, UN System, USA, WB, Pacific Financial Technical Assistance Centre (PFTAC), Pacific Regional Infrastructure Facility (PRIF), Pacific Islands Private Sector Organisation (PIPSO), Pacific Islands Alliance of NGOs (PIANGO)
SDGS & Targets
Goal 17
Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development
17.1
Strengthen domestic resource mobilization, including through international support to developing countries, to improve domestic capacity for tax and other revenue collection
17.1.1
17.1.2
17.2
Developed countries to implement fully their official development assistance commitments, including the commitment by many developed countries to achieve the target of 0.7 per cent of ODA/GNI to developing countries and 0.15 to 0.20 per cent of ODA/GNI to least developed countries; ODA providers are encouraged to consider setting a target to provide at least 0.20 per cent of ODA/GNI to least developed countries
17.2.1
17.3
Mobilize additional financial resources for developing countries from multiple sources
17.3.1
Additional financial resources mobilized for developing countries from multiple sources
17.3.2
17.4
Assist developing countries in attaining long-term debt sustainability through coordinated policies aimed at fostering debt financing, debt relief and debt restructuring, as appropriate, and address the external debt of highly indebted poor countries to reduce debt distress
17.4.1
17.5
Adopt and implement investment promotion regimes for least developed countries
17.5.1
Number of countries that adopt and implement investment promotion regimes for developing countries, including the least developed countries
17.6
Enhance North-South, South-South and triangular regional and international cooperation on and access to science, technology and innovation and enhance knowledge sharing on mutually agreed terms, including through improved coordination among existing mechanisms, in particular at the United Nations level, and through a global technology facilitation mechanism
17.6.1
Fixed broadband subscriptions per 100 inhabitants, by speed
17.7
Promote the development, transfer, dissemination and diffusion of environmentally sound technologies to developing countries on favourable terms, including on concessional and preferential terms, as mutually agreed
17.7.1
Total amount of funding for developing countries to promote the development, transfer, dissemination and diffusion of environmentally sound technologies
17.8
Fully operationalize the technology bank and science, technology and innovation capacity-building mechanism for least developed countries by 2017 and enhance the use of enabling technology, in particular information and communications technology
17.8.1
17.9
Enhance international support for implementing effective and targeted capacity-building in developing countries to support national plans to implement all the Sustainable Development Goals, including through North-South, South-South and triangular cooperation
17.9.1
Dollar value of financial and technical assistance (including through North-South, South‑South and triangular cooperation) committed to developing countries
17.10
Promote a universal, rules-based, open, non-discriminatory and equitable multilateral trading system under the World Trade Organization, including through the conclusion of negotiations under its Doha Development Agenda
17.10.1
17.11
Significantly increase the exports of developing countries, in particular with a view to doubling the least developed countries’ share of global exports by 2020
17.11.1
Developing countries’ and least developed countries’ share of global exports
17.12
Realize timely implementation of duty-free and quota-free market access on a lasting basis for all least developed countries, consistent with World Trade Organization decisions, including by ensuring that preferential rules of origin applicable to imports from least developed countries are transparent and simple, and contribute to facilitating market access
17.12.1
Weighted average tariffs faced by developing countries, least developed countries and small island developing States
17.13
Enhance global macroeconomic stability, including through policy coordination and policy coherence
17.13.1
17.14
Enhance policy coherence for sustainable development
17.14.1
17.15
Respect each country’s policy space and leadership to establish and implement policies for poverty eradication and sustainable development
17.15.1
17.16
Enhance the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development, complemented by multi-stakeholder partnerships that mobilize and share knowledge, expertise, technology and financial resources, to support the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals in all countries, in particular developing countries
17.16.1
Number of countries reporting progress in multi-stakeholder development effectiveness monitoring frameworks that support the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals
17.17
Encourage and promote effective public, public-private and civil society partnerships, building on the experience and resourcing strategies of partnerships
17.17.1
Amount in United States dollars committed to public-private partnerships for infrastructure
17.18
By 2020, enhance capacity-building support to developing countries, including for least developed countries and small island developing States, to increase significantly the availability of high-quality, timely and reliable data disaggregated by income, gender, age, race, ethnicity, migratory status, disability, geographic location and other characteristics relevant in national contexts
17.18.1
Statistical capacity indicators
17.18.2
17.18.3
Number of countries with a national statistical plan that is fully funded and under implementation, by source of funding
17.19
By 2030, build on existing initiatives to develop measurements of progress on sustainable development that complement gross domestic product, and support statistical capacity-building in developing countries
17.19.1
17.19.2
Proportion of countries that (a) have conducted at least one population and housing census in the last 10 years; and (b) have achieved 100 per cent birth registration and 80 per cent death registration
SDG 14 targets covered
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Charmina Saili, Regional Planning Adviser