What works in Cook Islands
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Evidence snapshot for Cook Islands
The Cook Islands has implemented three distinct evidence-based practices. Immigration Cook Islands deployed ASYPX, a UNCTAD-built risk-screening system that has reduced average border processing time to under 60 seconds per traveller. The government undertook rat eradication on Suwarrow atoll in 2013 to protect seabird colonies, though follow-up monitoring in 2018 found remnant rat populations persisting on one islet, illustrating the difficulty of achieving complete eradication on remote islands. The Marae Moana Act 2017 designated the entire 1.9-million-km² EEZ as a marine park with 16% under strict no-take protection, but since 2022 the government has licensed deep-sea mineral exploration within it, creating tension between the conservation framework and extractive activity.
Drawn from: ASYPX — Cook Islands Immigration's UNCTAD-Built Risk Engine Cuts Border Processing to Under 60 Seconds · Suwarrow Atoll Rat Eradication and Seabird Monitoring (Cook Islands) · Marae Moana — Cook Islands' Whole-EEZ Marine Park Amid Deep-Sea Mining Tensions
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Strengths & weaknesses vs peers
Strengths
Transferability / demonstrated replication +40 pts 100 here · 60 average
Evidence of impact / measured public value +10 pts 67 here · 57 average
Weaknesses
Governance, certification & transferability -8 pts 56 here · 64 average
Transparency, fairness & accountability -20 pts 33 here · 54 average
Carbon — sequestration / storage, evidenced -27 pts 0 here · 27 average
Water & soil — retention, infiltration, erosion control -48 pts 0 here · 48 average
Score profile vs peers
Coloured bar: Cook Islands. Grey bar: peer average across the corpus. Both on a common 0–100 scale.
Points compare this place's average on each dimension with the average across all evaluated places, on a common 0–100 scale. Know more
Top good practices here
Suwarrow Atoll Rat Eradication and Seabird Monitoring (Cook Islands) · 27
Marae Moana — Cook Islands' Whole-EEZ Marine Park Amid Deep-Sea Mining Tensions · 13
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Recommended to adopt or replicate
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- Rated highly transferable
- Backed by strong evidence
- Rated highly transferable
- Backed by strong evidence
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Fit estimates how well a practice matches this place, 0 (poor) to 100 (excellent); the list is ordered to favour practices that address this place's gaps. Know more