Niue has completed the peer-review process, which examines ways FICs spend money and aid to improve livelihoods and meet the MDGs.
3 June 2011: The Government of Niue has completed a peer-review process under the Forum Compact for Strengthening Development Coordination. Niue is the fifth country in the region to have volunteered to undertake a peer review since its endorsement by Pacific Islands Forum Leaders at their meeting in Cairns in 2009.
Niue has invited representatives of the Samoan and Nauruan Governments to represent the Forum island countries (FICs) on the team and a representative of AusAid to represent the development partners. The Niue Chamber of Commerce represented the private sector. The peer review looked at the ways that FICs use their own money and the aid received to ensure better livelihoods and progress towards achieving national priorities and the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).
The Niue peer review team is expected to present preliminary recommendations to the Government of Niue. A peer review report with recommended actions to strengthening development coordination will be agreed with the government within six weeks of completing the in-country visit. [PIFS News] [PIFS News] [SIDS-Cairns Compact]