A series of workshops for the stakeholders in each participating Pacific Island Country (PIC) is anticipated to start in November 2004. The workshop participants will include stakeholders (during the Stakeholders' Briefing Session) who expressed their interest in using climate information, including predictions, for risk management planning within their respective sectors. Training for the media personnel will be included.

The main objectives for the workshop are:

• To demonstrate available information and stress the limitations of the forecasts, the nature of probability-based predictions;
• To demonstrate to decision-makers in climate sensitive activities the availability of, and effective and prudent use of, probabilistic climate predictions as an input to decision-making;
• To train decision-makers in climate sensitive activities usage of probabilistic climate predictions in decision-making to minimise risks in their respective sectors;
• To establish effective communication delivery channels from the PIC National Meteorological Service to its clients;
• To ascertain specific information needs, provide a forum for identifying desirable software modifications;
• To train the media contacts in order to ensure most effective and accurate dissemination of the climate information, including predictions to the general public; and
• To identify and/or commence one of more pilot projects in some of the PIC.

A pilot project on using climate prediction data in the sugar industry in Fiji has been identified under the PI-CPP. There is possibility of establishing or facilitating one of two more industry-based pilot projects on other PICs.