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 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…
Drue: The village caught between a rock and a hard place
In the remote village of Drue on the Fijian island of Kadavu, the locals face a life-changing decision: to remain at the mercy of the rising ocean or move their entire community to higher ground.
Sixty-three-year-old stroke survivor Miriama (Miri)…
Pacific Resilience Meeting 2021: Our people, our journey: Nurturing Pacific Resilience from Home
This week the Pacific Community (SPC), together with development partners, will host the biennial Pacific Resilience Meeting 2021, focussing on the theme ‘Our people, our journey: nurturing Pacific resilience from home’.
This meeting is set to convene…
Climate smart alliance proposed at Pacific food systems dialogue
As millions of farmers regionally and globally struggle to overcome the impacts of a global health crisis, economic slowdown, and unprecedented weather shocks, Pacific leaders met yesterday to call for a regional alliance on Climate Smart Agriculture.
Remarks by SPC DDG, Dr Paula Vivili at the Pacific Climate Smart Agriculture Regional Food Systems Dialogue
STATEMENT BY DR VIVILI
DELIVERED AT OPENING CEREMONY OF THE
PACIFIC CLIMATE SMART AGRICULTURE REGIONAL FOOD SYSTEMS DIALOGUE
VIRTUAL MEETING
30 JUNE 2021
Pacific Education: Many of Pacific students are still unable to return to school
Many of these students are still unable to return to school for a variety of reasons.
In Papua New Guinea, although the nationwide lockdown - which affected 2.4 million students - was lifted in May, some schools have chosen not to reopen because of the…