Overview The Pacific Island Countries and Territories (PICTs) continue to face significant challenges due to high disaster risk, compounded by unique challenges such as geographic dispersion and...
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Overview The Pacific Island Countries and Territories (PICTs) continue to face significant challenges due to high disaster risk, compounded by unique challenges such as geographic dispersion and...
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Overview The Pacific Island Countries and Territories (PICTs) continued to face significant challenges due to high disaster risk, compounded by unique challenges such as geographical dispersion and...
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INTRODUCTION This volume is intended as a companion to Blue Pacific Continent, Volume I – Primer on Pacific Regional Climate Change Action. This reference book offers an overview of Pacific countries...
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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The “Blue Pacific Continent” is both a mindset and a geographic region. The Southwest Pacific Ocean is home to more than two dozen island states and territories that range in size...
1. Executive summary Introduction On 15 January 2022, the explosion of Hunga Tonga and Hunga Haapai (HTHH), two sister underwater volcano located in an uninhabited area about 65 kilometres north of...
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Executive summary The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic caught the world unprepared, revealing society’s vulnerabilities, systemic fragility and lack of resilience. In 2020, the Data, Strategy...
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Executive summary The 14 Pacific Island countries and territories covered by this multi-country strategic plan – Cook Islands, the Federated States of Micronesia, Fiji, Kiribati, Nauru, Niue, Palau,...
SITUATION ANALYSIS The eruption of the Hunga-Tonga-Hunga-Ha’apai (HTHH) volcano on 15 January 2022 was the largest recorded since the 1883 eruption of Krakatoa. The eruption triggered tsunami waves...
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A disaster emergency is underway in Asia and the Pacific as risks outpace resilience, warns new UN study The Asia-Pacific region has a narrow window to increase its resilience and protect its...
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Commitment to expand World Bank support for health, education, social protection and climate-resilient infrastructure projects across the Pacific over next eight years SYDNEY, May 8, 2023 – The...
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ADB Operations Reach $20.5 Billion in 2022, Addressing Crises, Building Resilience MANILA, PHILIPPINES (24 April 2023) — The Asian Development Bank (ADB) committed $20.5 billion from its own...
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Overview Through its interim Multi-Country Strategic Plan (iMCSP) 2019-2023, WFP prioritized close collaboration with national governments and communities across 15 Pacific Island Countries and...
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East Asia and Pacific Regional Growth to Accelerate as China Rebounds Slowing global growth, commodity prices, financial tightening to weigh in 2023 WASHINGTON, March 30, 2023 – Growth in developing...
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When I wrote my director’s message for last year's report, I ended by saying 2021 would be a year of opportunities. Looking back, I must acknowledge the pandemic made the first year of implementing...
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Introduction The Pacific region is at a crossroads. The advancement of the Sustainable Development Goals aspirations across all sectors are facing the test of international solidarity. The Pacific...
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Malia Tuitupou, a volunteer working at one of the “Women Friendly Spaces” established and supported by the United Nation Population Fund (UNFPA) Pacific in Tonga, still vividly remembers the...
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Edited by Mely Caballero-Anthony and Jose Ma. Luis Montesclaros Foreword Foresighted and pragmatic policymaking requires acknowledging the constancy of change, and the fleetingness and perhaps...
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On September 28-29, 2022, during the first-ever U.S.- Pacific Island Country Summit hosted by President Biden, Secretary of State Blinken announced that the U.S. Agency for International Development...
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CHAPTER 1 The shifting contours of the Pacific small island developing States (SIDS) disaster riskscape Blue Pacific 2050 Climate Change and Disasters Strategic pathways: Governance, Partnerships and...
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Pathways to Adaptation and Resilience in the Pacific analyses the Asia Pacific Disaster Report 2021 and showcases how the subregion is being affected by various risk parameters, and where new...