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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