The Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environmental Programme (SPREP), among others, is active in implementing community-level programmes related to issues such as biodiversity conservation, waste management and other environmental themes. Sustainability is not a collection of individual issues, it is a holistic systems approach to viewing the human position in the world - typically described in social, economic and environmental terms. The challenge for organisations delivering topic-based or thematic programmes is around making them somehow cohere with one another.