Progressing Gender Equality in Fisheries by building Strategic Partnerships with Development Organisations
Gender equality, a universal agreed principle and value has been adopted widely but implemented to varying levels in different sectors. Our study was designed to contrast how gender development and fisheries sectors view and invest in gender and then explore opportunities to strengthen collaborative relationships and networks between the two, with the aim of improving capacity for gender inclusion in practice in fisheries.
The Pacific Islands Roundtable for Nature Conservation (PIRT)
The Pacific Islands Roundtable for Nature Conservation (PIRT) is a coalition of nature conservation and development organizations, governments, inter-government, donor agencies and community groups created to increase effective conservation action in the Pacific Island Region. It was established in 1998 at the request of Pacific island countries and territories which was voiced at the 6th Pacific Islands Conference on Nature Conservation and Protected Areas in 1997.
World Commission on Protected Areas (WCPA) Oceania Newsletter No.1, 2020
The first edition of the Newsletter of the IUCN World Commission on Protected Areas Oceania (WCPA Oceania) for 2020 is now available.
Global Protected Area Partnerships
There are many global initiatives that provide information, resources and tools for practitioners at protected areas. Due to the nature of these initiatives, they tend to be broad-scale and do not necessarily hold information about many of the smaller protected areas such as those in the Pacific where many protected areas fall under local indigenous conservation and management. However, some of these global networks and partnerships provide practitioners with tools that can be adapted for use anywhere.