Sources & method
Public-interest reporting needs a visible method. Here is how we decide what to state, what to qualify and what not to claim.
Method
- Prefer the body that owns the subject. Regional policy, climate science, fisheries, Indigenous rights and cultural heritage each have different first-party sources. A source is labelled rather than treated as a neutral narrator.
- Separate evidence from analysis. Each brief states its scope, date and limits. Regional positions are not silently turned into a single Pacific position.
- Do not inflate a thin dataset. Percentages need denominators, trends need a time window and comparisons need compatible definitions. Missing data is named as uncertainty, not converted into reassurance.
- Respect consent and custodianship. Permission to record is not automatically permission to publish, translate or commercialise. Restricted cultural knowledge is left out.
Standing sources
These are the bodies whose published material we work from.
- The Pacific Community (SPC)www.spc.int
- Pacific Islands Forum Secretariatforumsec.org
- Pacific Islands Forum Fisheries Agencywww.ffa.int
- Pacific Data Hubpacificdata.org
- UNDP Pacific Officewww.pacific.undp.org
- UNFCCCunfccc.int
- IPCCwww.ipcc.ch
- UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peopleswww.un.org/development/desa/indigenouspeoples/declaration-on-the-rights-of-indigenous-peoples.html
- UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritageich.unesco.org
- Pacific Resilience Partnershippacificresilience.org
- Pacific Climate Change Centrewww.pacificclimatechange.net
Corrections
Errors are corrected in the note itself. If you can point to something wrong, write tocontact@oceanian.org.