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The United Nations Development Assistance Framework for Kiribati for 2003-2007 is based directly on the analysis and findings of the Common Country Assessment, the UNDAF and CCA having been developed as a single, coherent process. Together, they provide a framework for the United Nations agencies to serve Kiribati in accordance with the Secretary General’s vision of a unified UN system at the country level.

The United Nations Development Assistance Framework for Tuvalu for 2003-2007 is based directly on the analysis and findings of the Common Country Assessment, the UNDAF and CCA having been developed as a single process. Together, they provide a framework for the United Nations agencies to serve Tuvalu in accordance with the Secretary General's vision of a unified UN system at the country level.

The preparation of the Common Country Assessment (CCA) followed by the United Nations Development Assistance Framework (UNDAF) are key elements in the promotion by the United Nations Country Team (UNCT) for Vanuatu of the UN Secretary General’s vision of a unified system at the country level. The CCA/UNDAF process has allowed those UN agencies actively supporting development in Vanuatu to jointly assess, with the government and other major stakeholders, the key challenges facing the country. Through the UNDAF, the UN agencies have reviewed these challenges as well as their own comparative advantages and based on the Government’s own development aspirations identified a programme of support for the 2003-2007 period.

Tuvalu has entered into numerous international commitments. These include endorsing the goals of the Decade for Education for All; the Programme of Action of the International Conference on Population and Development; the Beijing Platform of Action; the World Summit Goals for Children, the Convention on Rights of the Child, the Convention on Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women and the Pacific Platform of Action on Women. In 2000, Tuvalu endorsed the Millennium Declaration including the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), most to be reached by 2015. It seems likely (table at right) that Tuvalu will meet most key MDGs.

This Chapter recognises that there are a number of issues that impact oil all Pacific island countries and while they impact oil all the countries in the region the steps taken to address them by individual countries will differ. The vastness of the Pacific has an impact oil the way small island countries are managed and the way in which they relate with each other as well as with the rest of the world. Communications, both transport and telecommunications are critical for reducing isolation between and within countries consisting of widely scattered islands. The vastness also increases the challenges of promoting trade and tourism.

The preparation of the United Nations Development Assistance Framework (UNDAF) for the Solomon Islands for the period 2003-2007, as well as the Common Country Assessment (CCA) report on which it is based, has been a practical step in meeting the UN Secretary General's vision of a unified system at the country level. Through the CCA/UNDAF process, the UN Country Team (UNCT) has come together with the Government, NGOs, donors and other stakeholders in the development of the Solomon Islands to jointly assess the major challenges facing the country and together with the identification of the comparative advantages of UN agencies identified key aspects of future UN support.