Events

This webinar shared information and best practices on resilient development approaches that consider the experiences of women, children and persons with disabilities including other at-risk groups such as senior citizens. This webinar provided an opportunity to share innovative approaches that align with the underlying intent of regional frameworks including the Framework for Resilient Development in […]

Pacific Island Countries and Territories food security is facing a multitude of risks with adverse impacts on nutritional value, availability and accessibility of good quality diverse food products. The geographical diversity of the Pacific region adds further complexity to the different dimensions of food security that are being experienced in the region. This webinar brought […]

COVID-19 has instilled a renewed sense of urgency in the need to support local and national actors. This was evident during the recent Tropical Cyclones and with travel restrictions and border closures across all Pacific countries, local communities and national governments relied on their own capacities. This phenomenon speaks to the localisation vision of “as […]

The 2021 Pacific Resilience Meeting recognized that youths are actively engaged in building resilience communities. It also recognizes that young people will be the lightning rod of the Pacific, therefore youth voice is instrumental to decision making and policy development. This webinar had the following objectives: Serve as an information session for COP26 including its […]

The Pacific Island Forum Leaders have recognized in the Boe Declaration that “climate change remains the single greatest threat to the livelihoods, security and wellbeing of the peoples of the Pacific”. Pacific Island communities have high exposure, vulnerabilities but with limited adaptive capacity to address adverse slow and sudden impacts of climate change. Most critical […]

This webinar commemorated International Women’s Day (IWD) 2022 and was hosted by the PRP Technical Working Group (TWG) on Risk Governance for Resilient Development. It celebrated Women Leadership in Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) as a key aspect to strengthening risk governance and building resilience. It emphasized the Sendai Framework call for the mobilization of women’s […]

This webinar focused on managing climate related mobility by trying understanding the issue through financing, land tenure and experiences of women and people with disabilities. The PRP TWG on Human Mobility supported by the Swiss government commissioned research briefs on financing, land tenure and experiences of women and people with disabilities underlying the importance of […]

This webinar focused on launching the Disasters and Public Health Emergencies in the Pacific. The Report looks at the intersection of public health emergencies and conventional disaster risk management approaches in the Pacific.  Findings from the report show disaster management systems were put to the test during the COVID-19 pandemic, not only in response to the […]

This webinar focused on the Pacific Nationality Report. Disasters and other impacts of climate change are already displacing millions of people each year. Pacific countries and territories are especially exposed. The Future of Nationality in the Pacific: Preventing Statelessness and Nationality Loss in the context of Climate Change is a ground-breaking new report that provides the first in-depth […]

This webinar focused on Resilient Housing in the Pacific. Below are three key publications under Australian Humanitarian Partnership’s Disaster Ready programme. The purpose of this programme is to strengthen local humanitarian capability and preparedness so that communities are better able to respond to and recover from rapid- and slow-onset disasters. Fiji Shelter Handbook The Fiji Shelter […]