The program is made possible through a partnership between the U.S. Department of State Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs (ECA), Young Pacific Leaders, and East-West Center who are now accepting applications for the Professional Fellows Program for Young Economic Empowerment Leaders.

Digital ‘Moana Nui a Kiva’ an initiative launched by Creative New Zealand in joint partnership with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade (MFAT), will support Pasifika artists in New Zealand and the Pacific Islands to work in collaboration through knowledge and skills sharing.

This year on 17 June Micronesia’s Northern Marianas will hold the Pacific Mini Games Opening Ceremony aptly themed Rising up to the Challenge.  

June 24th brings a sense of excitement as we move toward celebrating Matariki as a public holiday for the first time ever. 

Every year on the 8th of June, Norfolk Islanders joyfully celebrate their national day—known as Bounty Day (or Anniversary Day).

With many borders opening in the Pacific Region, several events are back on – including the famous Tahiti Pearl Regatta, now marking its 18th Edition.

We spoke with Tuiloma Gayle Lafaiali’i, CEO of Pasifika Education Centre about the importance of keeping Pacific languages alive – especially with the lens of Samoan Language Week, this month.

The Pacific Cooperation Foundation (PCF) will shortly release its first Pacific Perceptions Study of New Zealander’s views of the Pacific Region.

Every year, Pacific Cooperation Foundation (PCF) undertakes a survey to receive feedback from our stakeholders and partnering organisations, on diverse areas of our service capability and range of programmes.

Declaration: A Pacific Feminist Agenda is an exhibition being held currently at the Toi o Tāmaki Auckland Art Gallery. It features 12 artists from the Pacific region.

Rotuman Language week takes place from Sunday 8 May to Saturday 14 May. We spoke to well known language advocate, Jioji Vai, about why Rotuma is so special.

To celebrate World Earth Day, Hapai te Hauora (Maori Public Health) reached out to David Vaeafe from the Pacific Cooperation Foundation, to see how the new campaign Fresh Start is helping rangatahi to decolonise the conversation on climate change.

For Pacific Islanders, we say the name of Banaba with a whisper. It is the place where greed and colonisation destroyed the land and displaced its people – with hardly a ripple in the collective ‘other’ social conscience.

Pacific Cooperation Foundation is delighted to support our partnership with Lagi Maama in the delivery of ‘Arts of Moana Oceania’ via the ‘Tok Stori Tuesdays’ -Phase III’, 2022 series.

Minister for Pacific Peoples, and Associate Minister of Foreign Affairs, Hon Aupito William Sio is in Palau to attend the Our Ocean Conference.

Earth Day is particularly relevant to our Pacific region that is at the very forefront of climate impacts. Many of our islands face precarious futures. Families struggle with rising sea levels, pollution, changing weather patterns and the harvesting of materials being taken offshore by other countries.

This year, New Zealand’s first female Maori Minister of Foreign Affairs, Nanaia Mahuta, Ngāti Maniapoto/Ngāti Manu, visited the Pacific nation of Fiji. Her mission was to bring Fiji and New Zealand closer together, signing the Duavarta Partnership : Aotearoa Whenua Manapori o Whiti Tauaki Mahitahi.

To identify the key stakeholders in the Pacific development sector, both local and regional, Pacific Cooperation Foundation has engaged the services of The University of Canterbury in partnership with the University of the South Pacific to undertake a ‘Stakeholder Mapping Project’.

Pacific Cooperation Foundation is proud to partner with TupuToa to help grow future Pacific Leaders through scholarship opportunities.

In the Pacific region ANZAC Day acknowledges Pacific peoples who have fought in World Wars as well as Korea, Vietnam and in the Middle East. It is a time to honour returned servicepeople and to remember those who came to the Pacific, who fought and died away from their own homelands.