UN Resident Coordinator to Fiji, Solomon Islands, Tonga, Tuvalu and Vanuatu (UN RC Fiji) Updates

The PHT Strategic Plan serves as a roadmap to deepen collaboration with key stakeholders, including national disaster management offices, local communities, NGOs, regional organizations, and donors...

Stigma-free HIV prevention, testing and treatment services required for an effective response. SUVA/BANGKOK, 23 January 2025—The Government of Fiji has declared an HIV outbreak in response to a sharp...

Port Vila, Vanuatu, 17 January 2025 – One month after the 7.3 magnitude earthquake struck Vanuatu on 17 December 2024, the situation remains challenging for the affected communities. The quake...

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Suva, Fiji: The United Nations is mobilizing humanitarian support requested by the Government of Vanuatu as part of the ongoing response to the 7.3 magnitude earthquake that rocked the country...

Suva, Fiji (21 February 2024) – The Anticipatory Action Framework for Tropical Cyclones in Fiji has just been endorsed by Fiji Peoples' Coalition Cabinet in a recent session, underscoring a shared...

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Suva, Fiji, 16 November 2023 - The United Nations, in close collaboration with the Government of Fiji, is today launching the Anticipatory Action Framework for Tropical Cyclones in Fiji. The...

Introduction The Pacific Humanitarian Team (PHT) is a network of humanitarian organizations working together to assist Pacific Island Countries and Territories (PICTs) to prepare for and respond to...

On the 14th April, the UN Resident Coordinator to Vanuatu, Fiji, Solomon Islands, Tonga and Tuvalu, Sanaka Samarasinha, paid a courtesy visit to Vanuatu Prime Minister, Hon. Ishmael Kalsakau, to...

The UN’s Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF) has approved US$1.7m in funding to provide life-saving assistance to people in Vanuatu following twin Category-4 cyclones Judy and Kevin earlier this...

A new joint project to improve Pacific livelihoods was launched yesterday by UN Resident Coordinator to Fiji, Solomon Islands, Tonga, Tuvalu and Vanuatu, Sanaka Samarasinha, Korean Ambassador to...

Following two consecutive Category-4 cyclones, and a 6.5 magnitude earthquake in Vanuatu last week, the United Nations (UN) has deployed eight staff to the capital, Port Vila, to support the...

A joint statement by the UN Resident Coordinators across the Pacific – Jaap van Hierden, Richard Howard, Sanaka Samarasinha, and Simona Marinescu, based in Micronesia, PNG, Fiji, and Samoa...

Nuku’alofa, TONGA, 11 August 2022 – “If we possess and action our four pillars of Tongan values (Faa‘i Kavei Koula) to re-imagine education, everything balances itself out and us, as children, are...

Port Vila - Flora Vano, a Ni-Vanuatu feminist and Country Program Manager of ActionAid Vanuatu (*), briefed Ms. Reem Alsalem the UN Special Rapporteur on violence against women, on local women-led...

Introduction The Pacific Humanitarian Team (PHT) is a network of humanitarian organizations working together to assist Pacific Island Countries and Territories (PICTs) to prepare for and respond to...

By UN Resident Coordinator to Tonga, Sanaka Samarasinha. Today, we mark one month to the day that our sisters and brothers in Tonga were hit by a dual disaster – the eruption of the Hunga Tonga Hunga...

INTRODUCTION Changing needs over the course of 2020 Launched in May 2020, the Pacific Humanitarian Team COVID-19 Humanitarian Response Plan (hereafter referred to as the “Humanitarian Response Plan”)...

Introduction The Pacific Humanitarian Team (PHT) is a network of humanitarian organizations that work together to assist Pacific island countries (Cook Islands, Federated States of Micronesia, Fiji,...