Regionalism provides solidarity for Islanders
January 20, 2010 Leave a comment
Wood Uti Salele from the Oceania Development Network (ODN) chaired the parallel session. ‘Regionalism on Service Delivery in Pacific Island States; Emerging Issues’ discussed the recent changes in approaches to Pacific regionalism and their impact on service delivery at household, district, national and Pacific-wide levels.
The session included a paper by Claire Slatter from the School of Social Sciences, University of the South Pacific in Fiji, titled ‘Reclaiming Pacific Island Regionalism: Women’s Voices’. Slatter approached the issue from a critical perspective focusing on easing capacity constraints for governments through increases in the provision of services and new pacific regionalism. Read more of this post
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