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Pacific Logistics Cluster: Project Overview, Q1 2018

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Project Highlights

• As an outcome of the 2017 Regional Pacific Logistics Cluster workshop and the World Food Programme (WFP) Pacific retreat, a revised Pacific logistics strategy was developed for three years (2018-2020), available upon request. It was designed to better address the localisation agenda, consolidating the core 7 projects to 4 key areas:

  • Coordination: regroups National Logistics Cluster development, regional Logistics Cluster and Civ-Mil
  • Prepositioning: regroups Common Storage, Stockpile Mapping and Standardisation
  • Trainings and Simulations: Brings together the Pacific Emergency And Response Logistics (PEARL) training package and in-country simulations
  • Information Management (IM): Brings together the Unsolicited Bilateral Donations (UBD) project including matching platform, the Pacific Logistics Mapping (PALM) platform, and the Pacific logistics platform project

Coordination

• A concept note has been developed for the Coordination project linking the various components listed above. It is available upon request.

• The first Logistics Cluster sub-regional workshop (Micronesia) – which is set to replace the Pacific-wide regional workshops held in 2016 and 2017 - is organised to take place 9-13 April in Majuro, Republic of the Marshall Islands (RMI). It will bring together logistics and humanitarian actors from across RMI, Federated States of Micronesia (FSM), Palau and Kiribati. The move to sub-regional workshops aims to further enhance the localisation agenda.

• Following the Tropical Cyclone Gita response in Samoa, WFP’s National Logistics Cluster Development Officer, visited Samoa to start work on the National Logistic Cluster’s Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs). The document is aimed at strengthening collaboration between logistics partners in-country, after gaps were identified during response activities.

• FSM held its first Logistics Cluster meeting and moved forward on finalising its SOPs and other activities including a Concept of Operations (CONops) and Minimum Preparedness Activities (MPAs).

• WFP met with the Australian Civil Miliary Centre (ACMC); the New Zealand Defence Force Military Attachés for Fiji, Cook Islands Nui and Tuvalu; United States Pacific Command (USPACOM) and Nevada State Guard. Discussions covered upcoming events, including a proposed activity with Republic of Fiji Military Forces and partners in May.