03 Dec 2003

The Secretariat of the Pacific Community (SPC)
The Secretariat of the Pacific Community (SPC), Noumea, New Caledonia/Nouvelle-Caledonie.
Self-description: "'Serving the Pacific Islands.' One of the oldest regional organisations in the world, SPC celebrated its 50th anniversary on 6 February 1997. It is a non-political, technical assistance and research body, fills a consultative and advisory role. [...] The South Pacific Commission, as it was formerly known, was founded in 1947 under the Canberra Agreement by the six 'Participating Governments' that administered territories in the Pacific: Australia, France, New Zealand, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom and the United States of America. Now all 22 Island countries and territories are full members, along with the five remaining founding powers."
Site contents: * Search the site; * Search publications; * SPC in a nutshell; * Mailing Lists; * Press Releases; * Information Circulars; * Meeting Announcements; * Employment; * News[use"@"]SPC; * Staff E-mail Directories; *Web Forum; * Land Resources (Regional Forestry Programme - PIFS, GTZ Forestry Programme, Crop Improvement - including Tarogen and DSAP, Plant Protection - including Pacific Fruit Fly, Animal Health & Production); * Marine Resources (Coastal Fisheries - including WorldFish/SPC Projects, Oceanic Fisheries, Maritime); * Social Resources/Health (Public Health Surveillance, Distance education in Health, Information Education Communication/Health Promotion, HIV/AIDS and STDs, Vector-Borne Diseases, Pacific Action for Health, Lifestyle Health, Tuberculosis Control, Health Management Development, Population Advocacy & Adolescent Reproductive Health); * Socio-Economics (Population and Demography, Statistics - including PRISM, Women's Bureau - PWB, Youth Bureau - PYB, Culture, Renewable Energy, Community Education, Regional Media Centre); * Information & Communication (Library, Publications, Interpretation & Translation, Information Technology);
* Mapping Pacific Island Populations (Development of national population GIS systems, SPC's Population / Demography Programme, PopGIS Online Demo, DFID - United Kingdom, DFID - Pacific).
URL http://www.spc.int/
Internet Archive http://web.archive.org/web/*/www.spc.int/
Link reported by: Frank Siciliano (sicilian[use"@"]ozemail.com.au)
[The above link was kindly sent to this e-journal in a response to the Monitor's recent invitation to readers to send details of useful Pacific-related online resources - ed.]
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Corporate Info.
* Publisher [academic - business - govt. - library/museum - NGO - other]: Other
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Essential
* External links to the resource [over 3,000 - under 3,000 - under 1,000 - under 300 - under 100 - under 30]: under 3,000