What happens when the money runs out

Marlene Dutta. Picture: RNZ 08/07/2021 By: Ariela Zibiah The Fiji Times The impact of prolonged unemployment is beginning to show in how Fijians are utilising the social media platform-based Barter for a Better Fiji (BBF), group founder Marlene Dutta…

Youths want a say in climate fight

RIGHT: Children look out to sea while standing on a sea wall in Betio town, South Tarawa, Kiribati. LEFT: Child advocate on DRR and climate change adaptation Tokasa Senibiau. Picture: SUPPLIED 08/07/2021 By: Ariela Zibiah The Fiji Times Pacific youth are…

Improving Risk Communication Essential for the Pacific

07/07/2021 By: Pasifika Wire New Zealand Identifying the challenges and potential solutions to improving risk communication in the Pacific region for disaster prevention, response interventions and clear messaging on COVID-19 has been highlighted during…

Be prepared – Resilience building

The villagers of Nakabuta in Nadroga. Picture: SUPPLIED 06/07/2021 By: Ariela Zibiah The Fiji Times, Fiji Advancing resilience: be interested The Fijian village of Nakabuta is renowned in the field of archaeology as a group of people that continue to…

Pacific Journalists focus on traditional knowledge in climate change 

07/06/2021 By: Pacific Environment Weekly Samoa Journalists from across the Pacific focused on the role of traditional knowledge in reporting on climate change during a Media Masterclass on the sidelines of the Pacific Resilience Meeting 2021. The…

Pacific media urged to highlight gender resilience

06/07/2021 By: Elenoa Turagaiviu FBC News, Fiji There is a lot more that the Pacific Media can do to adequately tell of Pacific resilience in the face of disasters says FEMLink Pacific. Speaking at the Pacific Resilience Meeting Media Masterclass,…

Resilience starts at home and it starts with us: Tuvalu PM

06/07/2021 By: Elenoa Turagaiviu FBC News, Fiji A call has been made for Pacific people to engage and be involved in elevating resilient actions from our homes to the globe for the future of our planet and all of humanity. The call was made by Tuvalu’s…

Traditional resilience accelerates recovery in Bua communities

07/07/2021 By Elenoa Turagaiviu FBC News Traditional resilience systems helped accelerate recovery efforts in communities in Bua after the successive tropical cyclones of Yasa and Ana. Speaking at the Pacific Resilience Meeting plenary on ‘The Shift to…

Bua embraces traditional resilience and survival practices

07/07/2021 By: Lusi Banuve-Leqa  MaiTV, Fiji  We didn’t spend a lot of time waiting for help from the government, we looked at what we could do to move forward and worked with that, Bua CSO Community head Radovibua Tagivetaua said. Speaking during the…

Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction- Statement by Dr. A. Aumua, SPC Deputy Director-General

Check against delivery Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction Statement by Dr Audrey Aumua Deputy Director General, The Pacific Community (SPC)    
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