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5 March 2015
Cambodia
KIRIBATI : CHALLENGES AND
OPPORTUNITIES
Mauri from Kiribati
Group of 33 flat low lying atolls
Less than 3 Meters above
sea level
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2015 :A CRITICAL YEAR
• The Sendai Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction
• Financing for Development
• The Post 2015 Intergovernmental negotiation and Leaders’ summit in September
• Paris COP
• Reoccuring theme : LEAVE NO ONE BEHIND
LDC’S : POTENTIAL TO BE LEFT BEHIND
• High population growth rate of 2.2%
• unemployment rate of 15-24 year olds was 54% in 2010 • 47.6% for males and 61.8% for females
• Young people accounted for more than a half (51.7%) of all the unemployed
• A recent survey on Gender Based Violence indicate that 68% of our women ages 15 to 49 were being exposed, usually at home, to gender based violence in one way or another by their partners and male members of the family.
• Our child mortality rate is 71 compared to 30 for the MDGs
• 30% of mothers are delivered by traditional methods outside the hospital,
• Our score card for the Millenium Development Goals is one of the weakest in the Pacific region.
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Flat low-lying coral atoll islands
.......Extreme coastal erosion and Receding shore lines
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The villages are right on the sea side
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.........Contaminated water lens
•Increasing contamination of
groundwater.
• Increasing water-borne
illnesses and high infant
mortality rates
• Increasing socio-economic
costs of water-borne illnesses
•increasing tensions and
conflicts between affected
communities and the
Government leading to
costly ongoing disputes and
vandalism of water
infrastructure
.........Homes flooded
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It is really about the PEOPLE
Education
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Oceans
Will you be left behind?
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What future do we want for our children, and for their children?
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FAMILY OF NATIONS
STOP, LISTEN AND ACTIT IS AFFECTING US ALLAPPEAL TO THE GLOBAL COMMUNITYINCLUDING EVERYONE – FAMILY OF NATIONS