Cook Island Maori traditional knowledge is a highly intellectual body of knowledge that has contributed to the ability of Cook Island Maori to forecast impending weather and natural hazard events. Cook Island Maori traditional knowledge can be conceptualised as a body of knowledge that has, over time accumulated through an intimate relationship between the Cook...

Issues surrounding environmental legislation and policy lead to unsustainable outcomes in waste management and practice in Rarotonga, Cook Islands. As a result local people's lives are affected in a range of different ways.

This brochure highlights the Cook Islands vision and commitment to ocean conservation and management by the establishment of the Cook Islands Marine Park and their close partnership with Conservation International. The Cook Islands Marine Park is currently the largest commitments to the Pacific Oceanscape, an innovative initiative led by 15 Pacific Island nations, including New...

To provide Cook Islanders with access to specialist services not available the Cook Islands, since 1994, the New Zealand Government has funded and initially managed medical specialist visits to the Cook Islands. Between 2004 and 2008, these visits took place under the Medical Specialists Visits (MSV) scheme and from 2008 to the present, under the...

A Community Initiatives Scheme (CIS) was foreshadowed in the NZODA Cook Islands Country Strategy 2001-2006, which recommended a new flexible, responsive mechanism for supporting civil society be introduced and managed by the New Zealand High Commission in Rarotonga. Its purpose was to provide support to civil society organisations in a more focused way than previous...