Pacific Sub Regional Centre: Governance in the Pacific

The ACT Project established by the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) in partnership with United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), financially supports, through micro-grants, grass-roots activities carried out by community-based organisations or by individuals. These funds assist activities which require a relatively small amount of support to be implemented (up to USD $ 5000) but which, nevertheless, have an important impact on the promotion and the protection of human rights at the local level. Through the ACT Project, organisations established in the Pacific have been funded. This has lead to the improvement of the daily lives of the Pacific Islanders.

Present activities, funded through the ACT Project, include:

Fiji Women’s Rights Movement, a non-governmental organisation in Fiji, has been funded to develop a video to be used as an advocacy tool for young women.  

Aia Maea Ainen Kiribati (AMAK), a non-governmental organisation in Kiribati, has been funded to review, update and simplify 10 existing English-language family law pamphlets and translate them into Kiribati language.    

Peace Foundation Melanesia, a non-governmental organisation in Papua New Guinea, has been funded to add human rights information (in Tok Pisin) to its Justice training to communities in the Southern and Eastern Highlands, Simbu, Madang, NCD and Bougainville

Past activities, funded through the ACT Project, include:

Human Rights Workshop held at Rampur Primary School, Navua, Fiji, 22 February 2003

Seminar with the theme “Young People Against Racism” organised by Pacific Concerns Resource Centre and UNDP, 21st March 2003:

Winning Poems
Poem by Keshni Devi

Poem by Moushim N & Opal N

Poem by Desmond Smith

Winning Posters
Poster by Ian Mow
Poster by Tutokotahi Lopati                               

Cherishing Cultural Diversity in Vanuatu, 17 March 2003

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