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Evidence snapshot for Micronesia
The Federated States of Micronesia has achieved dramatic infrastructure and connectivity gains: fixed-broadband prices fell 99% from $65 to $0.78/Mbps/month and mobile-broadband prices fell 96% from $705 to $30/Mbps/month between 2014 and 2025, with internet usage rising from roughly 2% to 40% of the population and over 100,000 people (88% of FSM's population) benefiting from submarine cable and last-mile projects. Politically, FSM became the last Pacific nation to elect a woman to national parliament when Dr. Perpetua Sappa Konman won a special election in 2021 and was re-elected in 2023, making every Pacific jurisdiction represented by women in parliament for the first time. Regionally, the Micronesia Conservation Trust has mobilised USD 100 million (including a USD 50 million endowment) to support 150+ protected areas across five Micronesian jurisdictions, underpinning the Micronesia Challenge's 30%-marine and 20%-land conservation targets, though individual site-level ecological outcomes remain unpublished in available sources.
Drawn from: Digital FSM: East Micronesia Cable & National Connectivity Project · Breaking FSM's All-Male Congress: Gender Machinery and the 2021 Konman Election · Micronesia Conservation Trust — Regional Endowment for Protected-Area Ecosystem Services
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Strengths & weaknesses vs peers
Strengths
Evaluation evidence +55 pts 100 here · 45 average
Biodiversity — conservation / improvement, evidenced +50 pts 100 here · 50 average
Governance, certification & transferability +36 pts 100 here · 64 average
Documented learning +26 pts 100 here · 74 average
Curator validation +26 pts 100 here · 74 average
Demonstrated reach +24 pts 100 here · 76 average
Sustainability (ongoing) +22 pts 100 here · 78 average
Achievement / evidence +9 pts 100 here · 91 average
Gender-mainstreaming embedding +9 pts 100 here · 91 average
Weaknesses
Transferability / replicability -26 pts 33 here · 59 average
Efficiency -44 pts 0 here · 44 average
Water & soil — retention, infiltration, erosion control -50 pts 0 here · 50 average
Effectiveness -77 pts 0 here · 77 average
Impact on gender equality -80 pts 0 here · 80 average
Evaluated outcomes -84 pts 0 here · 84 average
Score profile vs peers
Coloured bar: Micronesia. 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
Digital FSM: East Micronesia Cable & National Connectivity Project · 92
Breaking FSM's All-Male Congress: Gender Machinery and the 2021 Konman Election · 48
Micronesia Conservation Trust — Regional Endowment for Protected-Area Ecosystem Services · 47
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