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The Pacific Community (SPC) is officially a bilingual organisation (English and French), with key
governance documents available in both languages. However, SPC technical teams such as Climate
Change and Environmental Sustainability (CCES), Educational Quality and Assessment (EQAP), Fisheries,
Aquaculture & Marine Ecosystems (FAME), Geoscience, Energy and Maritime (GEM), Human Rights and
Social Development (HRSD), Land Resources (LRD), as well as programmes like Pacific Women Lead work
in all Pacific Island countries and need to communicate in the most impactful way for their activities to
bring positive development outcomes, especially related to key sustainable development concepts
targeting communities. To enhance this, having access to professionals who can provide linguistic
services in local languages will ensure that communities have access to information in the most
appropriate and relevant way. This in turn will raise their voices while being heard and enable them to
make informed decisions.
The SPC Translation Team through a Funding with Intent (FIT) initiative funded by New Zealand’s Ministry
of Foreign Affairs and Trade (MFAT) – Pacific Islands Languages project– seeks to establish a register of
experienced Pacific Islands language providers who will be called upon to provide their services under
an external contracting system.
With the 2022-2031 Strategic Plan as a backdrop, the Pacific Islands Languages project is a necessity to
provide a registry of language providers for a variety of products and services for the region as there is
currently no such official registry. The registry will be housed online within SPC and made accessible to
all divisions and programmes as well as regional and international partners.