The Pacific Community (SPC) is at this week’s Pacific Islands Forum Leaders Meeting, where a new, freely accessible online dashboard that tracks transformation towards the region’s 2050 Strategy for the Blue Pacific Continent has been shared.
Supporting host country Tonga’s vision for the 53rd Pacific Islands Forum Leaders Meeting to move beyond policy deliberation to implementation, SPC has launched an online, publicly available dashboard that tracks progress towards the region’s 2050 Strategy for the Blue Pacific Continent.
Launched in 2022, the 2050 Strategy sets out a long-term approach to working together in the Pacific. Its vision is for a resilient Pacific of peace, harmony, security, social inclusion and prosperity, that ensures all Pacific peoples can lead free, healthy and productive lives.
For all Pacific peoples, economies and environments to benefit from better data and evidence-informed decision-making for sustainable development, the new dashboard surfaces the national data used to assess progress towards all seven thematic areas of the 2050 Strategy:
- political leadership and regionalism;
- people-centred development;
- peace and security;
- resource and economic development;
- climate change and disasters;
- ocean and natural environment, and
- technology and connectivity.
The 2050 Dashboard is hosted on the Pacific Data Hub, an online gateway to comprehensive data and information ‘about the Pacific, by the Pacific’. A Pacific-led community good, the SPC-coordinated platform serves as a single entry point to Pacific datasets, publications, dashboards and other tools, with financial support from New Zealand’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade.
The new dashboard was shared at today’s leaders’ plenary on progress towards the 2050 Strategy in Nuku'alofa, Tonga. Running 26 to 30 August 2024, the 53rd Pacific Islands Forum Leaders Meeting is chaired by the Prime Minister of Tonga, Hon Hu’akavemeiliku Siaosi Sovaleni.
The Pacific Islands Forum Leaders meet annually to develop collective responses to regional issues. Leaders will convene, engage in discussions and agree on policies on behalf of their people. Tonga’s vision for the 53rd Leaders Meeting is for the Pacific to move beyond policy deliberation towards implementation—to achieve transformation by building better now.
Access the 2050 Dashboard at blue-pacific-2050.pacificdata.org