Pacific Islands Development Forum

of the Pacific Islands by:

🌎 Advocating the very real and pressing significance of climate change for the lives and livelihoods of Pacific Islands and Pacific Islanders;

🌎 Implementing policies for sustainable development and especially poverty eradication that respond to the challenges posed by climate change and globalisation;

🌎 Accelerating the integration of the three pillars of sustainable development namely environment, social, and economic, to harmonise the pursuit of economic growth with the needs of societies and the sustainability of the environment; and

🌎 Facilitating the use of tools, approaches and innovations, such as Green-Blue Pacific economies, leadership and genuine partnerships to stimulate robust debate while fostering an inclusive change agenda. The PIDF shall:
🪶 Serve as a dynamic regional partnership platform that recognizes, celebrates, promotes and preserves the diversity of Pacific cultures, their history, and the challenges they face from climate change, globalisation, and development;

🪶 Provide an inclusive regional multi-stakeholder forum to enable collaboration between leaders and representatives of Pacific governments, civil society, and private sector to take ownership of their decisions and actions to address their special development needs;

🪶 Provide an inclusive regional multi-stakeholder forum for leaders of the public sector, civil society and private sector;

🪶Serve as the Pacific regional counterpart for the south-south groupings and other regional and international arrangements that focus on sustainable development and especially poverty eradication in Pacific Islands to ensure policy coherence at
all levels;

🪶 Secure the support of development partners through formal agreements for technical assistance and financial resources to achieve sustainable development and poverty eradication outcomes.

🪶 Promote innovation through the adoption of robust policy designs, good governance practices, and scalable and adaptable technology choices to deliver transformational changes.

🪶 Support the development of national infrastructure of development to connect with regional and international institutions.

🪶 Develop an information hub for the dissemination of information on Green-Blue growth, sustainable development and especially poverty eradication.

𝗚𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿𝗻𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲:

📜 The Conference is the apex decision-making body of the PIDF. The Conference comprises
members of the Leader‟s Summit and Member‟s Representative Council.

📜 The Leader‟s Summit comprises Leaders of Pacific Islands governments and Pacific Organisations. The Summit meets once a year.

📜 The Member‟s Representative Council comprises three members from each National/Local Sustainable Development Boards or their equivalent, a member from each Pacific Organisation and the Secretary General. The Council meets twice a year.

📜 The National/Local Sustainable Development Boards implements the PIDF purposes and ensures that national and local priorities influence the agenda.