The workshop was funded by the U.S. Embassy through its Regional Environment Office for the Pacific and facilitated by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, with assistance from the International Union for Conservation of Nature Oceania Office.
The three-day training course titled “Principles of Environmental Compliance and Enforcement” aimed to enable participants to develop their own management approaches to environmental problems, to draft enforceable requirements where appropriate, to design unique compliance strategies and enforcement programs and to role-play in a negotiation session to resolve a specific enforcement case.
In addition to FSM participants, state counsels, environmental specialists and environmental and marine enforcement officers from Palau and the Marshall Islands also participated in this training.
The workshop was conducted by Davis Jones, associate director, Office of Enforcement and Compliance Assurance, U.S. EPA; and Emma Wangi, environmental legal officer for IUCN-Oceania based in Suva, Fiji.
The U.S. is committed to assisting Pacific island countries promote good environmental governance and achieve sustainable management of their natural resources.
