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The CBEMP Regional Meeting for National Project Coordinators was held from 2-4 February 1998 in Apia, Samoa. The purpose of the meeting was to bring together the country nominated National Project Coordinators (NPCs) to discuss what the CBEMP programme is seeking to achieve and to outline the roles of the NPC and the National Coordinating Committee (NCC). The meeting agenda is attached as Annex 1. The project will have regional coverage with the 15 United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Pacific island member countries being eligible for participation. Participants for this meeting came from the Cook Islands, Kiribati, Niue, Palau, Samoa, Tonga, Tuvalu, Solomon Islands and Vanuatu. Nominations were received from Nauru and Tokelau; however, due to transport difficulties, they were unable to attend. Resource people from UNDP and the Forum Secretariat provided specialist input and training.

The Pacific Island climate Change Programme (PICCAP) is a regional Climate Change Enabling Activities project. It involves ten Pacific Island countries (Cook Islands, Federated States of Micronesia, Fiji, Kiribati, Marshall Islands, Nauru, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tuvalu, Vanuatu) and is coordinated and executed by the South Pacific Regional Environment.

This report is the Project Preparation Document (PPD) for the proposed Huvalu Forest Conservation Area. The primary objective of the PPD is to lay out the design for a project that conserves the biodiversity of the Huvalu forest through the development of village managed activities founded upon sustainable resource exploitation practices. A long term aim is to develop participatory planning and management skills at the village level so that project sustainability can be assured after SPBCP involvement ends.

The conservation values and biodiversity of Pohnpei's forests are perhaps as important as their hydrological buffering function. A combination of strong traditional respect for the upland forest, heavy human depopulation during the last century, and relatively difficult access to inland areas have spared the upland forests of Pohnpci Island from much of the disturbance and destruction that has occurred in the island's lowlands and on other Micronesian islands. These factors, along with the relative age and isolation of the island make the flora of Pohnpei's upland forests some of the most diverse in Micronesia, with a high level of endemicity.