Strengthen disaster preparedness and management across the Pacific
Disaster READY is an AUD 50 million disaster preparedness and resilience program. The focus of Disaster READY is to strengthen disaster preparedness and management across what is one of the world’s most vulnerable regions to natural disasters.
Description
Disaster READY is an AUD 50 million disaster preparedness and resilience program that is implemented by AHP partners and their local networks across the Pacific and Timor-Leste. The program represents Australia’s largest ever investment in disaster preparedness in the region, and is an important element of Australia’s stepped-up engagement for a more resilient Pacific.
The focus of Disaster READY is to strengthen disaster preparedness and management across what is one of the world’s most vulnerable regions to natural disasters, and which is also prone to political instability. Disaster READY draws on the deep networks and partnerships developed by Australian NGOs in the region to support Pacific communities and governments to better prepare for and respond to disasters. The program focuses on ensuring vulnerable groups, including women, people with disabilities and children, are included and accounted for in disaster preparedness, management and risk reduction activities.
Disaster READY is being implemented in Fiji, Vanuatu, the Solomon Islands, Papua New Guinea and Timor-Leste.
Did the Sendai Framework change or contribute to changes in your activities/organization? If so, how?
Enhancing disaster preparedness for effective response is a key priority of action in the 2015-2030 Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction, this informed the design of Disaster READY.
What led you to make this commitment/initiative?
What was your position before making this Voluntary Commitment / prior to the Sendai Framework?
The Disaster READY program began in 2018, so the Sendai Framework informed its design from the beginning.
Deliverables and Progress report
Deliverables
Deliverables are the end-products of the initiative/commitment, which can include issuance of publications or knowledge products, outcomes of workshops, training programs, videos, links, photographs, etc.
AHP NGOs work effectively together and with other relevant
stakeholders.
Government, NGOs, the private sector and communities will
coordinate more effectively on preparedness and response in
Disaster READY countries.
Communities are better prepared for rapid and slow-onset
disasters.
The rights and needs of vulnerable groups are being met in
disaster preparedness and response at all levels.
National NGOs and faith-based organisations, often the
first responders on the ground, have increased capacity and
influence on their country’s humanitarian system.
Organizations and focal points
Implementing Organization(s)
Focal points
Partners
