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Environmental monitoring and reporting at the national level was highlighted by the Rio Agenda for Sustainable Development (Agenda 21) and has since been supported at the global level through the Global Environmental Outlook (GEO) report series that started in 1997. The GEO project itself was also initiated in response to the environmental reporting requirements of the UN Agenda 21 and to a UNEP Governing Council decision of May 1995 which requested the production of a new comprehensive global state of the environment report. As a global report, GEO combines top-down integrated assessment with bottom-up environmental reporting. This approach, which depends on regional assessments from designated regional centres including SPREP, provides the framework for national level inputs into the rolling up of regional impacts and trends. GEO regional reporting preparation also contributed to strengthening national level capacity for the preparation of national SOE.

Strategy for the development of Samoa 2016/17-2019/20 : Monitoring and Evaluation to Support the SDS - Accelerating sustainable development and broadening opportunities for all.

Strategy for the development of Samoa 2016/17-2019/20 : Monitoring and Evaluation to Support the SDS - Accelerating sustainable development and broadening opportunities for all. Taiala mo le Atina'e o Samoa 2016/17 - 2019/20 - Una'ia Atina'e ma Fa'atupula'ia Avanoa mo Tagata Uma

In line with the requirements of the Public Finance Management Act 2001, it is a great pleasure for me to present the Strategy for the Development of Samoa (SDS), 2008–2012: Ensuring Sustainable Economic and Social Progress. SDS presents Samoa’s development vision, its medium-term national development goals, and the strategies that will be implemented during the four financial years 2008/09–2011/12 to achieve these goals. In comparison with previous SDS documents, the planning period has been extended by one year and aligned with the financial year to facilitate the improvement of linkages between SDS, the corporate plans of government agencies and the annual budgetary process.

The Mauritius Strategy provides a framework for specific actions and measures to be taken at the national, regional and international levels in support of the sustainable development of small island developing states. Many of the issues faced today are related to the surrounding oceans such as climate change and sea level rise, global warming and the preservation of biodiversity.