Yap Summit Community Sector - Yap State Government

YAP STATE GOVERNMENT
Source: Millennium Development Goals & The Federated States of Micronesia, Status Report 2010
Links of Environment and Welfare with other sectors
Existing
MRMD and teachers (informal link); DAF-EPA- MRMD (invasive species); YINS-EPA-MRMD (quarantine); MCT
[Working Group Note: MCT resources deployment to other departments should be subjected to further analysis]-
Yap-Cap -Micronesia Challenge.
Suggested `
MRMD-DOE (newsletter); Environment –Tourism-Communities (e.g. eco-tourism); YINS-OPB-R&D-COM-DAF-
MRMD-YFA-Our Yap Youth-Communities-Foreign Universities (capacity building).
[Secretariat Note: the link between COM Land Grant and DAF community based agriculture practices should be
explored.]
The Sector through existing reviews and/or policies
U.S. Department of Interior: Report to Congress on the First 5years Review of the Compact of free Association
with the Federated States of Micronesia (2010)
N/A
FSM: Comments from the Federated States of Micronesia on the Five Year Review of the Amended Compact of
Free Association (2011)
pp. 59. “Recognizing this lack of prior funding, as well as the fact that many planned outcomes have yet to be
achieved, the Office of Environment and Emergency management developed, in 2009, a 5-year Environment
Sector Plan. This plan lays out distinct priorities and indicators for the environment sector as well as the programs
that need to be funded in order to achieve these Goals.” [Working Group Note: explore its effective
implementation.] .
pp. 59. “Unfortunately, incomplete, inconsistent and non-standardized indicator reporting precludes any
systematic presentation or analysis of the environment sector. Projects have not historically been planned for, or
renewed, on a long-term basis and as such there are no consistent indicators of performance, or means by which
to assess improvement or digression … Yap had no measures for which year on year comparison is available.”
pp. 60. Despite the fact that under the Compact Environment shifted from being a crosscutting issue to become a
self-standing sector, “Environment sector expenditures are clearly only a small fraction of Compact expenditures,
averaging 3.5% of compact expenditures from FY04-FY08. Additionally, there has been a steady decline in spending
on the environment sector from 4.2% of Compact expenditures in FY04 to 2.6% in FY08. The lack of measurable
environmental indicators, much less progress in those indicators, can largely be attributed to relative dearth of
environment sector funding which precludes sustained environmental projects.”
pp. 61. Figure 9.3: Yap has the lowest salaries and wages percentages of the Environmental Sector Expenditures.
pp. 62. “The environment sector grant is an important addition to the Amended Compact and the FSM believes
that through proper vision and planning it can achieve the expectations set forth during negotiations.”
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