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This report provides implementing tools for the Pacific Resilience Partnership’s Research brief on land tenure and climate mobility in the Pacific region.1 The research brief recommended measures to incorporate land tenure into climate change adaptation (CCA) and disaster risk management (DRM) in the Pacific region.

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Among the range of options available to households and communities on Pacific Islands impacted by climate change and related disasters, relocation has emerged as a last resort. A field of research has emerged to better understand “climate mobility,” from migration to other islands, to the relocation of entire communities to higher ground.

The scope of this study is planned community relocation, and how the knowledge, values, and relationships (referred to collectively here as “traditional knowledge”) of community residents in Pacific Islands can and should shape planned community relocation. Read more...

Strengthening resilience for PICs is therefore critical given the highly uncertain future they now face. Targeted investments in resilience building are therefore critical. Priority areas of investment that include the need to strengthen disaster early warning and preparedness, and to mainstream disaster risk and climate change into development planning and financing in PICs.

Recognizing these critical needs, the World Bank provided an opportunity for targeted resilient development and engaged with three PICs; Republic of Marshall Islands (RMI), Tonga, Samoa and two regional organizations; the Pacific Islands Forum Secretariat and the Pacific Community (SPC) to implement the Pacific Resilience Program (PREP).

The purpose of this report is to capture the key learning from the Tonga DRF experience for the purpose of strengthening awareness of the drivers of comprehensive resilience including that of financial protection.

Are you an emerging artist, creative and a passionate youth keen on resilience building? If yes, we would like to hear your views on the importance of investing in financial protection against disaster through any of the following competitions. Submit your entries now to win great prizes.

The Pacific Islands Forum Secretariat (PIFS) in collaboration with the Pacific Resilience Partnership (PRP) Disaster Risk Finance Working Group (DRFWG) is now inviting entries for the following competitions under the theme 'Financial protection for a resilient future-Pacific Youth Perspective'. Please click on the competition of interest below to download the rules and entry details.

• Essay
• Art/Drawing
• Poetry
• Short Videos

The competitions are open to people between the ages of 6 to 35 years old from the Pacific Islands Countries and Territories (PICTs). Your entry should reflect the competition's theme and specifically on the impacts of disasters, disaster risk financing and resilience building in the face of multiple disasters that the Pacific is facing.

Competition closes before midnight Friday 29th July 2022 (Fiji Standard Time).

The following research brief on Women and Disability in the Context of Climate Mobility: Case Studies of Fiji, Solomon Islands and Vanuatu prepared by Patrick Fong, is one of the three knowledge products from the PRP TWG-HM.

The TWG-HM is chaired by the International Organisation for Migration and the research has been successful with the generous support of the Swiss Confederation through the Intra-ACP GCCA+ Adaptation to Climate Change and Resilience Building (PACRES) Action. They are a means to provide critical information to fill knowledge gaps which can feed into policy and programmatic recommendations while supporting policy development with the areas of the research briefs identified and selected as well as peer reviewed by the PRP TWG-HM outcomes from webinars, online surveys and consulations with stakeholders.