Entries by ICDP Social Media
ICDP & Folktale Join Forces for first ICDP event of 2023!
ICDP is excited to be working with our great friends at Folktale to host our first event for 2023 – Storytelling & Digital Media Webinar. Storytelling is embedded in Pacific culture and there are ways to use it to help promote your business, your cause, your community messages. Storytelling has been an integral part of […]
Taking the Fork in the Road
Dr Ian Watt AC, Chair of ICDP states “ICDP believes that the relationships and goodwill built over the past 5 years are extremely important. I am very pleased to announce that ICDP will dedicate ongoing resources to enable continued central management and coordination of its network.” He also pays homage to the past five years of investment by the Australian Government in the Pacific Connect program which is closing on 30 September 2022. What a journey!! The Folktale Impact video aptly tells the Pacific Connect story so make sure you check it out. Thank you to everyone on the Pacific Connect journey with us. To quote Dr Watt “We have learnt a lot from experience and plan to apply the learnings as we move to the next chapter.”
‘A Shared Purpose’: Keynote by Hon Peter Kenilorea Jr at the 2022 Pacific Connect Ideas Exchange
The Second Track can help improve governance by sharing and reinforcing proper values through the people-to-people networks of entities and platforms like Pacific Connect. ____________________ This is an edited summary of the keynote address by the Honourable Peter Kenilorea Jr, Member of the National Parliament of Solomon Islands, at the 2022 Pacific Connect […]
Shared values, systems and respect for each other’s views are the foundation stones of our relationship with Australia
Speaking at the opening dinner of the 2022 Pacific Connect Ideas Exchange at NSW Parliament House, Taulapapa Brenda Heather-Latu reflected on the recent Samoan constitutional crisis and spoke of the importance of upholding and promoting democratic values in the Pacific region.
Financial Literacy – Outreach Session in the Community of Lavusa
Pacific Connect Community Hub Coordinator, Shurti Kumar, recently hosted a financial literacy ‘outreach session’ with local community members in Lavusa, Fiji. Shurti shares her experience in leading the event.
Face-to-face talanoa creates vision for future
Twenty-six emerging leaders from Australia, New Zealand and Fiji met in Fiji from 5-8 May at the invitation of the International Centre for Democratic Partnerships (ICDP). This was the first face-to-face meeting of Pacific Connect Community members since early 2020 border closures due to the pandemic. The Dialogue was co-facilitated by Michael Pilbrow, Founder, Strategic Development Group and Taholo Kami, CEO & Principal Partner, Kami Pasifiki.
Project Spotlight: Less Than A Container Load Coca Export Project
On Friday May 13, the first container of cocoa beans was sent to chocolate makers in the United Kingdom under the innovative Less Than A Container Load pilot. This container contains cocoa beans from 50 farmer groups and consolidators across Guadalcanal and Isabel, and is the first sign of success that the Less Than A Container Load project.
