Review of the Pacific Bureau

The Pacific Youth Bureau (PYB), of the Secretariat of the Pacific Community (SPC), is the regional agency mandated by Pacific governments to be the lead agency for Pacific youth. The PYB was officially launched in July 1998 at the First Regional Conference of Youth Ministers of the Pacific Community in Papeete, French Polynesia. Before this, SPC’s youth programme, established in 1965, was known as Youth and Adult Education.This review is part of a multi-year programme of reviews SPC is undertaking as part of its integrated approach to performance planning and measurement. These review findings will inform the Second Regional Conference of Youth Ministers of the Pacific Community scheduled to meet in 2005. The review was undertaken in July 2004. The review team consulted extensively with SPC staff (Noumea- and Suva-based), a range of PICT representatives, and those engaged in youth-related activities in the four review PICTs of PNG, Fiji, Federated States of Micronesia and Tonga.