- Workshop Opening Speech - Honourable Minister Ralph Regenvanu (Minister for Lands and Natural Resources, Vanuatu)
- Responding Remarks - Dr Arthur Webb (Deputy Director - Ocean and Islands Programme, SOPAC Division, SPC)
- Workshop Programme
- Participants List
- Workshop Proceedings (Not Available yet!)
- Presentations and Presenters:
- Day 1: Session 1
- Deep Sea Minerals - New Developments in the Pacific: Status, Challenges and Opportunities - Mr Akuila Tawake (DSM Project - Team Leader)
- Legal Aspect of DSM:What are the legal requirements around DSM? What is ‘policy’ and why do we need it? What should national DSM policy include? - Ms Hannah Lily (Legal Adviser – DSM Project, SPC)
- Session 2: Overview of economic, environmental, social and cultural impacts of terrestrial mining with particular focus on socio-economic impacts with examples from Pacific communities, social mapping and monitoring - Prof. Colin Filer (Australian National University)
- Session 3: Examples of Social Impacts of Mining and Other Industries in the Pacific
- Papua New Guinea (On-land Mining) - Mr Winterford Eko
- Kiribati (Aggregates Extraction) - Ms Tebete England
- Fiji (On-land Mining) - Mr Malakai Finau
- Vanuatu (Aggregates Extraction) - Ms Christy Haruel
- Day 2: Session 4: Social Impact Assessment of Mining - Professor Colin Filer
- Session 5: Civil Society Perspective on Social Impacts (Role Play) - CSO Reps Cook Islands, Nauru, RMI, Tonga and Vanuatu
- Session 6: How We Monitor Social Impacts - Professor Colin Filer
- Session 7 [Socio Economic Impacts of Resource Extraction]
- Fisheries - Ian Bertram (FAME, SPC)
- Marine Mining – Corporate Social Responsibility and Sustainability -