As of January 2024, there is an updated FSM Research Policy in effect. Please see www.nach.gov.fm/research to review the updated policy.

Invitation to Bid for the FSM Cultural Research Policy and FSM Historic Preservation Legislation Review Project
Opened 13 January, 2023, expires 13 February, 2023.

It’s that time again when the UN is recruiting young professionals and is accepting applications for the Young Professional Program (at the P2 level) in the fields of legal affairs, library and information management until 31 December 2022.

Candidates from 64 countries are eligible to apply and this includes 10 countries from the Pacific: Kiribati, Marshall Islands, Micronesia (Federated States of), Nauru, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tuvalu and Vanuatu.

Please feel free to share this through your networks so that we can encourage colleagues from our unrepresented Pacific family to apply. The details of the program are attached and in the link below.  

UN Careers – Home Page

UN Careers – Updates

We are pleased to announce that the UNESCO Sultan Qaboos Prize for Environmental Conservation  is open and ready to accept applications for the 2021 edition of the prize. Please click here for more information.

UNESCO is pleased to inform that the nominations for the 2021 UNESCO-Japan Prize on Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) are now open. The Circular Letter 4340 sent on 10 February, 2021 to all Ministers responsible for relations with UNESCO, with copies to Permanent Delegations and National Commissions, is attached for reference.

Funded by the Government of Japan, the UNESCO-Japan Prize on ESD consists of three awards of USD 50,000 for each recipient. 

UNESCO recommends that this call for nominations be made widely known in your country among relevant stakeholders involved in ESD, and encourages Member States both to set up a national selection process and to announce the selected nominees.

Ø  The nomination process takes place via an online platform: https://unesco.sharepoint.com/sites/committees/ESD-Prize/

Ø   Permanent Delegations and National Commissions will be able to connect with their existing generic user accounts (see user guide here).

Ø  Each Member State may submit no more than three nominations in consultation between the Permanent Delegation and the National Commission.

Ø  The online nominations should be submitted by Permanent Delegations in their responsibilities via the online form in English or French by 30 April 2021 at the very latest (midnight, Paris time).

Further information on the UNESCO-Japan Prize are available on the Prize website: https://en.unesco.org/prize-esd  

FSM Independence Day

Thank you, to all veterans, for your service. This Veterans Day, we offer a bit of history of Micronesians who serve in the United States military.

The Compact of Free Association is an international agreement establishing and governing the relationships of free association between the United States and the three Pacific Island nations of the Federated States of Micronesia, the Marshall Islands and Palau. Among the aspects of the Compact, the option to the United States military is one of the aspects.

According to the United States Department of Defense, per capita, there are more Micronesians who serve in the United States Military than any other country. Moore than 1,500 Micronesians serve in the U. S. Military.