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Built With, Not For: Real Development in Action
In Hauloto, a water tank system and a community working together show what climate resilience looks like when it's built from the ground up.
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Cleaner, more reliable energy transforming lives in Nauru
Across Nauru, access to cleaner and more reliable energy enabled by energy policies, capacity building, and e-mobility solutions is opening new possibilities for families and communities. These changes are supporting a more secure and resilient future where communities are better equipped to thrive.
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Lighting the Future of Pentecost — A Community-Powered Step Toward Vanuatu’s Renewable Energy Vision
As the three of us travel back from Pentecost, we reflect on the communities of Waterfall and Melsisi, where we have just stood together with chiefs, families, youth, technicians, and community leaders to celebrate a historic moment: the official handover of three pico-hydro power stations.
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The Decisions Made Today
There is a moment, stepping off the plane at Fua'amotu International Airport, that stays with you. The descent alone prepares you, the Blue Pacific Ocean filling the window in every direction, land appearing almost as an afterthought, narrow and low against the water.
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2026: A Defining Year for Biodiversity Finance in the Blue Pacific
2026 is a pivotal year for the planet, and unusually, the global environmental calendar makes that more than rhetorical.
A “tri-COP” year will see negotiations under the climate, biodiversity and desertification conventions unfold in close succession.
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What the Rain Triggered
Cyclone season, from November to April, in the Solomon Islands needs no introduction. It floods farms, slows traffic and disrupts market days. Income pauses while expenses do not.
What we do
In the Pacific, UNDP provides regional and country support to ten countries - Federated States of Micronesia, Fiji, Kiribati, Republic of the Marshall Islands, Nauru, Palau, Solomon Islands, Tonga, Tuvalu, and Vanuatu - and regional support to five countries - Cook Islands, Niue, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, and Tokelau - together with a total population of 2.4 million. We work on e
ffective governance, i
nclusive growth as well as
resilience and sustainable development.
Multi-Country Programme Document (2023-2027)
This 5-year multi-country program is an outcome of the Pacific Cooperation Framework for 2023-2027, integrating the national plans of 14 Pacific Island Countries and Territories in line with the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the Small Island Developing States Accelerated Modalities of Action Pathway. With clear guidance from the UNDP Strategic Plan (2022-2025) and building on the achievements of the previous program cycle, UNDP's contribution to the Cooperation Framework will effectively implement the Secretary General's directives to aid small island developing States and advance the Blue Pacific Continent strategy.
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World Malaria Day 2026: Vanuatu’s Progress and the Power of Zero Malaria Deaths
For more than a decade, not a single person in Vanuatu has died from Malaria.
Since 2012, despite ongoing transmission and periodic outbreaks, the country has…
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Cleaner, more reliable energy transforming lives in Nauru
Over its implementation, SMARTEN supported the introduction of renewable energy and energy-efficient solutions suited to Nauru’s context.
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Built With, Not For: Real Development in Action
At the villages of Hauloto and Fualu, on the main island of Tongatapu, mornings used to begin with uncertainty. For the 43 households that make up this small…
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Lighting the Future of Pentecost — A Community-Powered Step Toward Vanuatu’s Renewable Energy Vision
As the three of us travel back from Pentecost on 24 March 2026, we reflect on the communities of Waterfall and Melsisi, where we have just stood together with…
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The Decisions Made Today
As Tonga maps its coastline with pinpoint precision, a Prime Minister's words carry the weight of a nation's future, and a message for the world
Our Impact
6,500
people
gained access to clean, reliable electricity in rural Fiji.
70,000
coastal
community members supported through reef and ocean based livelihoods.
15,000
people
strengthened resilience through risk informed community infrastructure.
$4.6
million (US)
invested to accelerate renewable energy access in Vanuatu.
28
women
elected to parliaments across 10 Pacific Island countries.
2.7
km
of vulnerable coastline protected through climate resilient infrastructure in Tuvalu.
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