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Hello, Thanks for sharing your own personal experience with us Jonathon, i am Manal 26 years old, Egyptian development sector employee , I started my career in development when I was 18 years old as a volunteer " social worker head " in a local NGOs at some slums in poor neighborhoods in Egypt then I started to share my experience with other development organizations working at the same field as a social working trainer voluntarily , year next I employed as a social worker also at UNHCR (The UN refugee agency) at Cairo Office , at this period I found my passion I started some self study online courses to get more knowledge about refugees from different nationalities and their languages and dialect , their traditions I used to listen to them carefully and feel their suffering now I've been working with 25 different nationality with 80 $ per month , but I am so satisfied with offering caring and love , by offering acceptance and safe to whom in need. Thank you for your great work in humanitarian.

Good one, Stephan and Artemy. The need of the century. Needs more effective and collective efforts to institutionalize GPGs.

Transform is spot-on in promoting the use of new technologies to remotely monitor fishing operations and provide a link between sustainable fisheries, conservation of tuna stocks and threatened species, observer safety and the economies of Pacific island countries. The WCPO tuna fishery is the world's most valuable, and it's time that distant water nations modernised their fleet and included automated monitoring equipment on all their vessels.

Congratulations on your perseverance Shirleyanne and good luck for the future!

I could not agree more with the 5 highlights and also with the need to have them highlighted. I would suggest there is a 6th need that is embedded within the 5 and that is to help the partner states promote their own strong executive leadership, and management that will demand the use of MERL to their own advantage. This is so much easier stated than practiced as (i) too often MERL tends to be owned, created and driven by development agencies to meet their own mandated organizational needs (as you state this is more for evaluation than adaptive management). This promotes a complexity and sophistication desired by development agencies that may look good but waves goodbye to any local engagement, and (ii) firm executive leadership can be so fiercely challenged and constrained by local social and political demands in partner states, most especially in the closely-knit Pacific Island Countries.

The Pacer agreement is a good starting point. A Pacific community sounds like a great idea. One of the problems that will inevitably arise is, who will be the representatives of such an august body? Will representatives be the best (informed) persons or simply those with connections seeking a well-paid position in another toothless bureaucracy? The alternative model of finance as a panacea is also fraught with the issues surrounding corruption and misappropriation of funds. A pacific community should have elected representatives with limited tenure. A charter for education and health services across the pacific would be an imperative, as would a news network to keep the populace-at-large informed about the proposals and achievements of a pacific community. And finally, long term strategies for the pacific community would need to deal with global warming, maintenance of cultural identities, and policing project agreements.

Came across this article whilst reading around PNG Government’s refusal to renew Barrick’s operation on the Pogera Mine last week. What lessons should we draw from nationalization of OK Tedi? Did revenues increase after nationalization? How much it contribute to PNG during the years after the boom? - if the net revenues (when it paid taxes as part of BHP and when it was nationalized) are bigger, it may explain why government wants to nationalize one more. Was the management and senior positions politicized? Has it affected investors confidence? Or is the second nationalization of a mining company now going to make investors nervous? It’s an interesting article.

As one who spent three years on Vaitupu 40 years ago, I have great affection for Tuvalu and its people, and I admire the determination of the government to deal with the COVID19 situation. However, I worry about the capacity of the outer islands to feed the large numbers of returnees, which will increase the population of some outer islands by more than 50%. This will mean a greatly increased demand for imported food, as it seems unlikely that returnees can be fed from subsistence food-sources alone ?

Having been involved with this issue in PNG and elsewhere in the Pacific for decades, this article presents an excellent summary of the dysfunction that was the Nautilus project. Nautilus was doomed from the start, and has now cost a poor government over $120 million in funds it desperately needs for other issues. The company was bullish and dismissive of environmental and social concerns raised by local people, as well as those of the marine scientific community. The company in bankruptcy is the best outcome possible. It's reemergence as "Deep Green" is the way failed companies and failed ideas seem to work these days. It is clear that a sustainable world economy does not need deep sea minerals, and the environmental costs of mining deep sea minerals would be unacceptable. We would all be well-advised to monitor this issue closely.

Great article! It is indeed unfortunate that some of the SDGs seem very unrealistic to achieve by 2030, but as you said, current situation should serve as a wake up call. We have compiled a list of startups and organizations that are doing a great job implementing strategies to get closer to achieving the SDGs. https://www.valuer.ai/blog/aligning-business-with-sdg-3-by-collaborating-with-startups Well done!

Very good article. Digital disruption should come to improve every sector, from daily life to trades. Digital services are necessities rather than luxury that help accomplish tasks in simpler ways -- utilities payment, remote education. Obviously, these digital services should come with ethics, should help ease lifestyle rather un-controlled usage.

Give some boats to villagers in fiji--and teach villagers modern way of Tuna Catch in the Pacific -- Note Fiji Fisheries has coastal and international on cbbv009/2017; 380/04; supreme court PETITION SERVED AGAINST STATES FISHERIES -www.fisheries.com.fj;