October 11, 2022
Since August 2021, United Nations (UN) teams across the Pacific have worked closely with Pacific
governments, civil society, development partners, and the Council of Regional Organizations of the
Pacific (CROP), to develop the Pacific UN Sustainable Development Cooperation Framework 2023-
2027 (The Framework).
The Framework acts as the blueprint for the work of the UN across 14 Pacific Island countries over
the next five years (2023-2027), ensuring UN efforts align with the development plans and
aspirations of each nation, and best supporting it to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals
(SDGs).
As well as aligning itself to the national development plans of individual countries, The Framework
is also fully aligned to the recently launched '2050 Strategy for the Blue Pacific Continent’, Samoa
Development Pathways and other important strategic document.
The Government of Samoa endorsed the Framework, with the Prime Minister, Hon. Fiame Mata’afa,
joining UN Resident Coordinator to Cook Islands, Samoa, Niue, and Tokelau, Dr Simona Marinescu,
to sign it on October 11, 2022.
The Framework will contribute to a Pacific region where all people, leaving no place behind, are
equal and free to exercise their fundamental rights, enjoy gender equality and peace, are resilient to
existential threats, and live in harmony with the blue continent.
To ensure this, the UN will support the national development priorities across four outcomes:
PLANET: By 2027, people, communities and institutions are more empowered and resilient to face
diverse shocks and disasters, especially related to climate change, and ecosystems and
biodiversity are better protected, managed and restored.
PEOPLE: By 2027, more people, particularly those at risk of being left behind, benefit from more
equitable access to resilient, and gender-responsive, quality basic services, food security/nutrition
and social protection systems.
PROSPERITY: By 2027, more people, especially those at risk of being left behind, contribute to and
benefit from sustainable, resilient, diversified, inclusive and human-centred socio-economic
systems with decent work and equal livelihoods opportunities, reducing inequalities and ensuring
shared prosperity.
PEACE: By 2027, people enjoy and contribute to more accountable, inclusive, resilient
and responsive governance systems that promote gender equality, climate security, justice and
peace, ensure participation, and protect their human rights.