Website Links
Pacific Regional Organisations
- Forum Fisheries Agency (FFA)
The FFA is an organisation set up to provide expert fisheries management and development advice and services to member countries. - Fiji School of Medicine (FSM)
The FSM is a Tertiary Health Institution striving towards Excellence in Training and Education of Health Professionals in the South Pacific. - Pacific Concerns Resource Centre (PCRC)
PCRC is the focal point for the Nuclear Free and Independent Pacific (NFIP) movement. - Pacific Islands Development Program (PIDP)
The PIDP conducts a broad range of activities to enhance the quality of life in the Pacific islands by advancing their collective efforts to achieve and sustain equitable social and economic development. - Pacific Islands Forum Secretariat (PIFS)
A site providing general information on the Pacific Islands Forum Secretariat. - Secretariat of the Pacific Community (SPC)
The SPC provides technical advice, assistance and training, and applied research to its Island member countries and territories throughout the Pacific region. - Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP)
SPREP is a regional organisation established by the governments and administrations of the Pacific region to look after its environment. - South Pacific Applied Geoscience Commission (SOPAC)
The SOPAC is an inter-governmental, regional organisation dedicated to providing products and services in three technical programme areas of: Community Lifelines; Community Risk; and Ocean and Islands. - South Pacific Board for Educational Assessment (SPBEA)
SPBEA is an intergovernmental, regional organisation to assist the region and member countries to develop assessment procedures towards national / or regional certificates. - United Nations Development Programme (Fiji)
This site details the projects of the UNDP implemented by their office in Fiji. - United Nations Development Programme (Samoa)
This site details the projects of the UNDP implemented by their office in Samoa. - University of the South Pacific (USP)
The USP is the provider of tertiary education in the Pacific region and an international centre of excellence for teaching, research and consulting on all aspects of Pacific life.
Pacific National Organisations
- Pacific Development Directory
A searchable database of Pacific Development organisations, which is a co-project of PIANGO and Dev-Zone, in Aotearoa/New Zealand
Donor Organisations
PIANGO Donor Directory - DRAFT May 2007 (PDF: 269 kb)
- Asian Development Bank NGO Section (ADB)
- Australian Agency for International Development (AusAID)
- Bread For the World
- Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA)
- Catholic Committee For Development and Against Hunger (CCFD)
- Commonwealth Foundation
- International Monetary Fund (IMF)
- International Women's Development Agency (IWDA)
- Japan International Co-op Agency (JICA)
- New Zealand Agency for International Development (NZAID)
- Sasakawa Peace Foundation
- The World Bank
- United Nations Development Program Pacific Office (UNDP)
Volunteer Organisations
PIANGO Volunteer Agency Directory - DRAFT May 2007 (PDF: 199 kb)
- Australian Business Volunteers (ABV)
- Australian Volunteers International (AVI)
- Australian Youth Ambassadors for Development (AYAD)
- Canadian Volunteer Sending Agency (CUSO)
- Canada World Youth
- Peace Corps
- United Nations Volunteer Program (UNV)
- Voluntary Services Abroad NZ (VSA)
- Voluntary Services Overseas UK (VSO)
- Volunteering for International Development Australia (VIDA)
Focus Areas
Education
Environment
Gender Issues
Human Rights
Indigenous Issues
Information Communication Technology
Marine
Media, News and Communications
Youth
- Asia South Pacific Bureau of Adult Education (ASPBAE)
ASPBAE has grown to a network of organizations and individuals involved in formal and non-formal adult education, working with and through NGOs, community organizations, government agencies, universities, trade unions, indigenous peoples, women's organizations, the media and other institutions of civil society across the Asia-Pacific. - East-West Center
The East-West Center contributes to a peaceful, prosperous, and just Asia Pacific community by serving as a vigorous hub for cooperative research, education, and dialogue on critical issues of common concern to the Asia Pacific region and the United States. - The Global Schoolhouse
The Global Schoolhouse links to the Global Classroom that aims to develop and promote learning for students and professional development for teachers. The site also has useful sections to help you use the Internet. - The University of the South Pacific (USP)
Detailed information about all aspects of the university.
Environment
- Greenpeace Australia Pacific
Greenpeace is an independent campaigning organisation that uses non-violent direct action to expose global environmental problems and to force solutions which are essential to a green and peaceful future. - Pacific Islands Roundtable for Nature Conservation
Designed to help increase effective conservation action in the Pacific Islands, the Inventory of Regional Conservation Activities is a living record of conservation activities of key actors in this region. - Live and Learn Environmental Education
Live & Learn is a non-government organisation which promotes greater understanding and action toward human and environmental sustainability through education and dialogue building. - South Pacific Regional Environmental Programme (SPREP)
SPREP aims to promote cooperation in the South Pacific region and to provide assistance in order to protect and improve its environment and to ensure sustainable development for present and future generations. - World Rainforest Movement
An international network of citizens groups working to defend the world's rainforests. - World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) Pacific Office
The WWF South Pacific Programme Office (WWF SPPO) is a non-governmental conservation organisation serving the Pacific Island countries.
Gender Issues
- Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era (DAWN)
Dawn is a network of women scholars and activists from the economic South who engage in feminist research and analysis of the global environment and are committed to working for economic justice, gender justice and democracy. - Pacific Women's Bureau
The Pacific Women's Bureau works with Pacific Island countries and territories (PICTs) to promote gender equality so that Pacific women enjoy the same opportunities as men. - UNIFEM
UNIFEM is the women's fund at the United Nations. It provides financial and technical assistance to innovative programmes and strategies to foster women's empowerment and gender equality. - WomenWatch
WomenWatch is the central gateway to information and resources on the promotion of gender equality and the empowerment of women throughout the United Nations system, including the United Nations Secretariat, regional commissions, funds, programmes, specialized agencies and academic and research institutions.
Human Rights
Indigenous Issues
- Centre for World Indigenous Studies
The Center for World Indigenous Studies (CWIS) is an independent, non-profit research and education organization dedicated to wider understanding and appreciation of the ideas and knowledge of indigenous peoples and the social, economic and political realities of indigenous nations. - Native Web: Resources for Indigenous Cultures around the world
Native Web has links to sites devoted to indigenous peoples around the world, including a list of and links to those in the Pacific.
Information Communication Technology
- Global Knowledge Partnership
The Global Knowledge Partnership (GKP) is a growing partnership of public, private and not-for-profit organisations working together to help people access knowledge and harness information and communications technologies towards equitable, sustainable development. - UNESCO Webworld (Communication, Information and Informatics)
Empowering people through the free flow of ideas by word and image, and by access to information and knowledge
Marine
- Canada-South Pacific Ocean Development Program
The Canada-South Pacific Ocean Development Program is Canada’s major regional commitment to the Pacific Islands, and reflects the Canadian and Pacific belief that ocean development is a key priority and focuses on the sustainable development of the Pacific region’s living marine resources.
Media, News and Communications
- Pacific Islanders in Communications
PIC is a national non-profit media organisation that aims to increase public broadcasting by and about Pacific Islanders. - Pacific Islands News Association (PINA)
PINA is the main professional association of the Pacific Islands news media. It links radio and TV stations, newspapers, magazines, online services, national associations of news media practitioners and journalism school in 23 Pacific Island countries and territories. - Pacific Journalism Online
Home page for the Journalism Programme at the University of the South Pacific. - Pacific Media Watch
A non-profit, non-government organisation made up of journalists, lawyers and others involved in the media. The organisation examines media issues and publishes online.
Youth
- International Youth organisations and associations
This site provides links and contact information about international organisations, individual countries and projects involved with young people and their welfare.
























