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This document is a management plan for the conservation of the natural resources and biodiversity of the Malololelei Community Conservation Area (CA) for the period 2024-2025 (10 years). The management plan is a living document that will evolve and improve through learning from implementation.

The energy sector is important to Samoa's economic, social, infrastructure and environmental composition. This plan has therefore been developed using extensive consultation with many groups. The purpose of the Energy Sector Plan is to provide a comprehensive plan for the energy sector to deliver outcomes consistent with the overarching Strategy for the Development of Samoa (SDS) 2012-2016, with due regard for cross-cutting issues including emphasising the importance of raising living standards, increasing resilience and boosting productivity for sustainable development. It provides a resourcing framework to support implementation of the plan.

The energy sector is important to Samoa's economic, social, infrastructure and environmental composition. This plan has therefore been developed using extensive consultation with many groups. The purpose of the Energy Sector Plan is to provide a comprehensive plan for the energy sector to deliver outcomes consistent with the overarching Strategy for the Development of Samoa (SDS) 2012-2016, with due regard for cross-cutting issues including emphasising the importance of raising living standards, increasing resilience and boosting productivity for sustainable development. It provides a resourcing framework to support implementation of the plan.

Waterfronts are special places around the world. They have been key features of cities throughout history; are places of great beauty; and are sources of economic strength. Our aspirations for the Apia Waterfront are the same.

The Pacific Strategy for the New Millennium1 of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) focuses on the core objectives of (i) continuing support for economic growth, good governance, and public sector reform; (ii) promoting private sector development as the engine for growth; and (iii) supporting sustainable environmental management and equitable social development. A new regional strategy is being prepared for ADB operations in the Pacific, which will focus on the priority needs of the poor, as defined by an extensive program of qualitative and quantitative poverty assessment, based on listening to the voices of those in hardship or poverty. The new strategy will focus on improving access to basic services and creating employment opportunities. As the Government is beginning preparation of its Strategic Development Plan 8 (SDP8) for 2005-2007, it is timely to review ADB’s strategy and program for Tonga.

In 2004, the Government of Tonga reaffirmed its commitment to achieving the development objective of improving living standards, set out in the Strategic Development Plan 7 (SDP7) for 2001-2003. Throughout that period, the Government focused on implementation of the Economic and Public Sector Reform Program (EPSRP), which aims at maintaining a stable macroeconomic environment and achieving sustainable economic growth, led by private sector development and supported by an efficient and effective public sector. Through SDP7, the Government plans to achieve social and economic objectives of individual fulfillment, gender equity, political stability, and a stable economic and financial environment.

In the past two decades Samoa has made sound progress in terms of economic and social development. In the early 1990s, two cyclones caused major devastation to the economy and in 1994 the Taro Leaf Blight destroyed Samoa’s major export earning commodity, taro. However, infrastructure has been restored, and macroeconomic stability has been achieved as a result of the bold reforms measures taken by government in the public sector, financial sector and to the tax and tariff systems. The economy is now benefiting from strong economic growth. Social indicators have improved and a host of activities are presently directed to improving health and education.

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) and the South Pacific Applied Geoscience Commission (SOPAC) joined forces to organize a high-level regional consultation for the Pacific water sector in preparation for the 3rd World Water Forum that will take place from 16 to 23 March 2003 in Kyoto, Japan.