Pacific Community

🌦️ What happens when a cyclone, disease outbreak or climate change threatens a unique crop variety? Potentially lost forever. SPC is conserving Pacific crop diversity, protecting unique varieties to strengthen #FoodSecurity in the region. Supported by @dfat @MFATNZ @CropTrust

📚🌊 Pacific education leaders are in Suva, Fiji for the 11th meeting of the Pacific Board for Educational Quality (PBEQ), taking place from 14–16 July. 🔗Learn more about PBEQ here: bit.ly/4aUkWTz

Happy Youth Skills Day! 🌊Today we are celebrating Early Career Ocean Professionals (ECOP) who are shaping a more sustainable future for our Blue Pacific through science, traditional knowledge, collaboration & a deep commitment to their communities.🌏 👉 bit.ly/4tnuUDp

🇸🇧 In June, the Social Citizenship Education (SCE) programme team, in collaboration with stakeholders, conducted a week-long training for teachers from eight SCE pilot schools in Honiara, Solomon Islands. #PPEVAWG #SCE #PacificPeoples @dfat @eupasifika

🌊Three young women are helping to shape the future of ocean governance. Through the ECOP programme, they worked with coastal communities to ensure that science, policy and traditional knowledge come together to protect our Pacific ocean. 👉Read the story: bit.ly/3ToyUXy

Over the past two days, SPC’s Educational Quality and Assessment Programme convened in Suva for a reflection and planning session focused on strengthening our collective efforts to support education systems across the Pacific. 📚🌱

👥 🎣 Participants from the #PFLP explored how #TraditionalKnowledge continues to shape fisheries leadership through a visit to New Zealand's Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI). 🔗 Read more: pacificleadership.org | 🤝 @MFATNZ #PacificFisheries #ManaMoana

📸👷‍♀️👷‍♂️ A look back at a promising start for the 8th intake of the 2026 Certificate IV in #Compliance in #CoastalFisheries and #Aquaculture course. 🤝 Thank you to @StateDept_NEA #PacificFisheries #PaFMaC #MCSE

📣 The #PFLP recently held its inaugural PFLP Connections Week in Wellington, bringing together more than 20 alumni from 10 #PICTs who completed the programme between 2018 and 2024. 🔗 pacificleadership.org | 🤝@MFATNZ #PacificFisheries #BluePacific #Adapsys #SquareCircle

In May & June, the Social Citizenship Education (SCE) team and MoET in Vanuatu conducted provincial stakeholders’ consultations to inform the scale-up of #SCE across all provinces in Vanuatu. #PPEVAWG #PacificPeoples

🌿 3079 accessions conserved i.e. seeds, plant material, or living plants. 🌎 17 Pacific nations and territories. 🏝️ 1 shared future safeguarded with our Centre for Pacific Crops and Trees (CePaCT). ℹ️ Supported through @dfat @MFATNZ and the @CropTrust

🎣 10 Pacific Island Countries and Territories (PICTs) are training together for the USP/SPC Certificate IV in Coastal Fisheries and Aquaculture Compliance! 🤝 Thank you to @StateDept for your support. #PacificFisheries #PaFMaC #Compliance #Aquaculture #CoastalFisheries #MCSE

🐚 SPC colleagues. Semi Cakaunitavuki and Dr. Luisa Wara joined the Crawford Fund Masterclass in April this year, reflecting on how Pacific leadership goes beyond titles. It is about people and working with them in their community context, through the #PeopleCenteredApproach.

🌱 At our Centre for Pacific Crops and Trees #CePaCT we’re strengthening #germplasm conservation through barcoding, improving how accessions are identified, tracked and managed. Rolling out now and expected to be fully operational next year youtu.be/9-UTo4ECet8?si…

In May, the Social Citizenship Education (SCE) programme team and partners successfully conducted a series of community awareness sessions in three communities in South Tarawa, in Kiribati. #PPEVAWG #SCE #PacificEducation #HumanRights #GenderEquality

The Social Citizenship Education (SCE) team and partners conducted a field visit to Nonouti Island, in Kiribati, recently, to support the implementation of the SCE programme. #PPEVAWG #SCE #PacificEducation #HumanRights #GenderEquality

Students in the Marshall Islands are leading awareness activities on #HumanRights #GenderEquality & #SocialInclusion, in their schools and school communities as part of the Social Citizenship Education programme. 👉🏽 Read our latest #PPEVAWG SCE story: bit.ly/4fI14pP

SPC was proud to be part of the 3rd Veivueti Kids Ocean Conference in Fiji on the 3rd of June! We were honoured to contribute through interactive activities designed around the theme of restoring and protecting ocean biodiversity and its significance to our Pacific way of life!

SPC's CRGA Subcommittee is where Pacific leadership, accountability, and collective direction come together. Over a two-day meeting, members engaged on updates of SPC’s strategic direction, organisational growth, and progress

🌊Meet Alan Brochard, an Aquaculture Sector Officer for the Northern Province in New Caledonia 🐠 ✨ An inspiring role model for the next generation of ocean professionals committed to creating a positive impact. 👉 Know more: bit.ly/4eyb4kj