According to SPC, proposals from Pacific SIDS, to SIDS DOCK include: improving the efficiency of the power utilities in FSM, Palau and RMI; solar powered internet services for rural health centres in Solomon Islands; solar powered water pumps for Tongan villages; an energy efficiency demonstration house in Tuvalu; and a geothermal project in Vanuatu.
SIDS DOCK is a SIDS–SIDS institutional mechanism that was launched under the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change in 2010. There are four partners: the UN Development Programme (UNDP), the World Bank, the Alliance of Small Island Developing States (AOSIS); and the Government of Denmark. Its primary purpose is to facilitate the development of a sustainable energy economy within the SIDS. [SPC Press Release] [SIDSDock Website]