General Situation

SPREP only got involved in the CRISP during the second semester 2006 and was significantly implicated in the process of recruitment of a French technical assistant Caroline Vieux, financed by the Pacific Fund to contribute to the Component 3A of CRISP and strengthen support given to the French Pacific territories by SPREP.

SPREP critically contributed to the adaptation of the SocMon Methodology (socio-economic monitoring of MPAs) in the Pacific in synergy with the methodologies developped by the LMMA and SPC/PROCFish project. The financial process is being financed by NOAA which should be supported in 2007 by CRISP’s finances coming from SPREP.

Finally, this regional programme has defined the terms of reference of an official document stipulating the institutional processes which must be followed by CRISP before intervening in a country from the Pacific to ensure a participation of all authorities in the Pacific to them. This document will be distributed during the first semester of 2007.