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Risk Governance and Resilient Development

The Risk Governance TWG is co-chaired by Fiji and Solomon Islands National Disaster Management Office (NDMO) Directors. The TWG was a direct outcome of the 2018 meeting in Legislating and Policymaking for Climate Smart Disaster Risk Management Workshop and the 2019 Pacific Resilience Meeting which emphasized the need for legal frameworks and institutional support mechanisms for disaster risk management to be strengthened in order to clarify roles and responsibilities and provide certainty and authority in times of disaster. Current membership includes NDMO and legal offices across the region and partners, including Fiji, Kiribati, Palau, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tonga, Tuvalu, Vanuatu, PIFS, SPC, IFRC, UNDRR, UNOCHA, and PILON.

The TWG has commissioned a Pacific legal mapping, which will analyse the legislative and policy linkages between climate, disaster and health responses in the Pacific, at both domestic and regional levels. This work is being supported by IFRC and being peer reviewed by the countries that have volunteered to be part of this review.

Risk Governance and Resilient Development

The Risk Governance TWG is co-chaired by Fiji and Solomon Islands National Disaster Management Office (NDMO) Directors.

Disaster Risk Financing

The Disaster Risk Financing (DRF) TWG was established in 2019 in response to a need to better understand the current landscape of existing disaster risk financing mechanisms available to the region and the gaps.

Human Mobility

The Human Mobility TWG is chaired by the International Organization on Migration (IOM). The TWG was established to the 2019 Pacific Resilience Meeting

Localisation TWG

The TWG on Localization is co-chaired by PIANGO, FemLink and Fiji Disabled People’s Federation. The focus of the TWG is to establish communities of best practice actively engaging in knowledge sharing in disaster preparedness

Information Knowledge Management (IKM) TWG

The Information Knowledge Management (IKM) TWG is chaired by PNG with SPC as the Secretariat. The IKM TWG was established in 2011 to support the work of the Pacific Climate Change.

Water Security Advocacy TWG

Water security is critical to disaster and climate resilience in the Pacific due to the inextricable links of water to food security, energy, health, economic development, environmental well-being, and the health of ecosystems

Pacific Based Carbon Mechanism TWG

This TWG is being led by PIFS and worked in collaboration with the Micronesian Centre for Sustainable Transport

Resilient Infrastructure & Resilient Housing TWG

The purpose of this TWG is to support the various actors and projects enhancing resilient infrastructure in the Pacific through strengthening coordination to avoid duplication of efforts, promoting best practices, providing guidance for national initiatives, and facilitating exchange of lessons learned.