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November 4, Monday
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0830
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Welcome Remarks
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0900
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Main Objectives of the Nouméa Seminar
- Genieviéve Dubois-Taine, PECC Sustainable Cities Task Force Coordinator
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0920
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Four points of view on Sustainable Urban Services in the Pacific Islands.
- Alastair Wilkinson, Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP)
- Dr. Robert Guild, Economic Infrastructure Adviser, Pacific Islands Forum Secretariat
- Alf Simpson, Director, South Pacific Applied Geoscience Commission (SOPAC)
- Paul Jones, Team Leader of the Asian Development Bank Capacity Building in Urban Management Project
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1040-1110
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Discussion
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1110-1130
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Coffee Break
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1130-1300
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Urban services in their relationship to urban development
Chair: Dr. Jing-sen Chang, Vice Chairman, The Council for Economic Planning and Development, Chinese Taipei
 Bora Bora, French Polynesia - Urban services in their relationship to urban development (489.9 kB)
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1130-1150
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Jérôme Yansaud, Head of the Environmental Infrastructures Department, Ministry of Tourism and Environment, French Polynesia
General situation of urban services in French Polynesia.
Institutional and legal background. Evaluation of the implementation of urban services in Bora Bora. Lessons learned from Bora Bora for the whole French Polynesia.
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1150-1210
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Gaston Tong Sang, Mayor of Bora Bora
General situation of urban services in Bora Bora (no drinking water, no sanitation, no waste management). Stakes for the inhabitants and tourism. Processes and decisions. Master plans, financing, PPP…Evaluation.
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1210-1230
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Joël Allain, SUEZ, General Delegate Pacific Region and President of « Electicité de Tahiti »
Implementation of urban services in Bora Bora. How were the environmental and social dimensions integrated as well tourism? Financial analysis. Partnerships. The Enterprises’ point of view.
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1230-1300
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Discussion on the Bora Bora case.
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1150-1300
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Lunch
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1430-1800
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Port Vila and its peri-urban settlements: contrasted situations and policies regarding water supply, sanitation and waste management; environmental and social concerns.
Chair: Dr. Lye Lin Heng, Deputy Director, Asia Pacific Centre for Environmental law, Faculty of Law, National University of Singapore
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1400-1420
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Graham Shorten, SOPAC
Pacific Cities urban planning and risk management, in general and in the Port Vila case specifically; history and present situation. How to define the most appropriate water and sanitation systems in Suva in relation to the other elements of the cities and to the sustainable use of groundwater supplies.
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1420-1440
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John Chaniel, UNELCO
The privatization of Port Vila water supply service. Objectives of the Government, decisional process, financial analysis (revenues and costs), evaluation.
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1440-1500
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Clive Carpenter, SOPAC
Surveys on water and sanitation problems faced by peri-urban villages and squatter settlements around Port Vila. Appropriate solutions.
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1600-1620
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Coffee Break
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1620-1820
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The big pipe: institutional and financial aspects. Impacts of the big pipe on urban development and on tourism.
Chair : Andrew Nickson, School of Public policies, The University of Birmingham (tbc)
Noumea, New Caledonia - The big pipe, Water sources and water supply (978.44 kB)
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1620-1640
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Jean Léques, Mayor of Nouméa
Water sources and water supply in the Nouméa area. Problems encountered. The big pipe. The reasons of its implementation. Decisional processes.
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1650-1700
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Marie Josée Consigny, State Actions Follower, Haut Commissariat de la République en Nouvelle Calédonie
Institutional, economic and financial background. Funds. The concession contract, its economic sustainability (incomes and tariffs, expenses in time,…). Regulation of the water supply system.
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1700-1720
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Jean Luc Perodeau, Director for the Pacific Region, SUEZ
The implementation of the big pipe; environmental and social constraints. The points of view of the Enterprise.
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1720-1740
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Patrice Meyniel, Adviser to the Noumea Municipality
Expected impacts of the big pipe on urban development in the Noumea region and on tourism.
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1740-1820
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Discussion on the Nouméa case
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November 5th, 2002
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0900-1200
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Towards sustainable urban services: integrating sewerage and drainage in urban management – recent developments in Apia.
Chair: Nola Kate Seymoar, Director, International Center of Sustainable Cities, Vancouver, Canada
Apia, Samoa - integrating sewerage and drainage in urban development with urban management (7.23 MB)
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0900-0910
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Paul Jones, Team Leader of the Asian Development Bank Capacity Building in Urban Management Project
General introduction.
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0910-0930
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Jude Kohlhase, Planner, Government of Samoa, Department of Lands, Surveys and Environment.
General background: environmental conditions, urban growth, planning, service provision and its relationship to planning and management.
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0930-0950
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Tuuu Taulealo, Government of Samoa, Department of Lands, Surveys and Environment.
Sewerage and drainage in Apia: why previous solutions failed –environmentally, socially, politically and financially not sustainable. New guiding principles for a sustainable strategy, partnerships, financing.
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0920-1010
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Coffee Break
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1010-1030
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Paul Jones, Asian Development Bank
Institutional arrangements for the Planning and Urban Management Agency. Improvement in urban management and resolution of the key urban planning and development issues, namely sewerage and drainage.
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1030-1050
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Tuuu Taulealo, Government of Samoa, Department of Lands, Surveys and Environment.
Building sustainable solutions with key players.
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1050-1200
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Discussion on the Apia case
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1200-1300
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Lunch |
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November 5, Tuesday
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1300-1520
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Old and new landfills in Suva, environmental analyses, financial aspects, land use concerns.
Chair: Dr. Benjamin V. Carino, General Manager, Public Estates Authorities, Manila, Philippines
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1300-1320
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Bhaskaran Nair, Permanent Secretary, Ministry of local Government.
Fiji’s institutional and legal framework concerning urban services, urban management and their financing. Waste management and landfills, past and present; relationships between waste and urban development.
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1320-1340
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Enrico Strampelli, European Union Representative.
The economic dimension of waste management in Suva. Bank loans, European funds, tariffs settled, … |
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1340-1420
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Mr. Kahn, representative of the Civil Society (tbc)
Point of view of the inhabitants and their involvement in the decision processes. How do the local population benefit from this project?
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1420-1520
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Discussion on the Suva case
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1520-1540
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Coffee Break
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1540-1730
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Lessons to be drawn to go further
Lessons to Go Further (124.67 kB)
Chair: Geneviève Dubois-Taine, PECC Sustainable Cities Task Force Coordinator
- The chairs of the Noumea sessions who follow the whole cycle of seminars organized by the PECC Sustainable Cities Task Force for its 2001-2003 programme,
- The representatives of institutions and organizations concerned with sustainable development in the Pacific Islands,
- The stakeholders involved in the Pacific Islands analyzed during the seminar
will discuss in depth how the improvement of urban services can contribute to build environmentally and socially sustainable towns, how to finance these services and how to find the appropriate institutional frameworks, financing systems, techniques and norms to implement them in a realistic way.
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