Three countries, Kiribati, Marshall Islands and Tajikistan, had sites added for the first time.
Of Kiribati's 33 islands, 21 are inhabited -- though most of its population is based in the Gilbert Islands.
With 1.37 million square miles of ocean holdings, Kiribati has been vulnerable to overtures from the EU to sign a separate, less-stringent access pact.
Player selection is also a challenge, with just 2, 351 registered male players over the age of 18 in Kiribati and only 468 women players.
Most attention tends to focus on inhabitants of low-lying islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans the Maldives, Tuvalu and Kiribati, say and coastal plains, notably in Bangladesh.
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Delegates represented indigenous people from Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Palau, Kiribati, Tokelau, Tonga, Fiji, Vanuatu, Niue, Cook Islands, Hawai'i, Australia, Aotearoa New Zealand, and Samoa.
For instance, Kiribati relied on fishing access fees for an average of 45% of its government revenues over the last decade, according to the International Monetary Fund.
This will be followed up with a capacity building workshop with the support of both UNESCO and SPBEA. In Kiribati the programme will also be supported by AusAID.
But since taking office last December, Australia's new Labor government has announced a seasonal labour scheme for the fruit-picking industry, to be open to PNG, Vanuatu, Kiribati and Tonga.
Youth participants currently confirmed are from Pacific Island communities including Australia, Cook Islands, Fiji, Federated States of Micronesia, Kiribati, New Zealand, Niue, American Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tonga, Tokelau and Vanuatu.
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This travelling circus is responsible for emitting at least 20, 000 tonnes of CO2 every year - about the same as the entire CO2 output of a small nation like Kiribati, or 4, 000 London households.
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There is also the small matter for McGreskin of helping the Kiribati FA win FIFA recognition, which would allow the islanders to play in international competitions and be eligible to receive funding from football's global governing body.
Kiribati, Tuvalu and Vanuatu have determined that the focus of their capacity development will be using the Pacific Professional Standards for School Principals (PPSSP) approved at the FEdMM (Forum Education Ministers Meeting) in Port Vila, Vanuatu, earlier this year.
Its scheduled stops -- in places such as the Marshall Islands, Tuvalu and Kiribati -- will be symbolic too, allowing the team to raise awareness of places that are particularly vulnerable to changing environmental conditions, such as rising sea levels.
Each of these five countries, Kiribati, Samoa, the Solomon Islands, Tuvalu and Vanuatu have identified through their national education plans and strategies that improving the quality of their teaching workforce is of utmost importance in order to contribute towards increasing student achievement.
Eight countries (FSM, Kiribati, Nauru, Papua New Guinea, RMI, Solomon Islands, Tuvalu and Vanuatu) have participated in the programme for the last five years and more than 300 teachers and teacher trainers in the Pacific have benefitted from the workshops and it is expected that they in turn will have a positive impact on student achievement.
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