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Tonga volcano satelite view
An international team has used satellite- and ground-based ionospheric observations to demonstrate that an air pressure wave triggered by volcanic eruptions which severely disrupted satellite-based communications.
Nagoya University
Cover CFE-DM
2023
The Handbook focuses on Tonga’s disaster management framework and disaster risk reduction strategies. It also provides an overview of the country’s government, geography, demographics, socio-cultural practices, and history of natural disasters.
Center for Excellence in Disaster Management & Humanitarian Assistance
Cover World Bank
2023
The systematic country diagnostic (SCD) covers a group of nine small Pacific Island countries (PIC-9) - Kiribati, Marshall Islands, the Federated States of Micronesia, Nauru, Palau, Samoa, Tonga, Tuvalu, and Vanuatu.
World Bank, the

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TONGA Disaster Risk Financing Strategy 2021 - 2025
2021
This disaster risk finance strategy brings together various ongoing and planned efforts from different sectors to quantify, reduce, and mitigate disaster-related financial risk.
Tonga - government
2021
This report discusses how in 2010, Tonga developed its first Joint National Action Plan on Climate Change Adaption and Disaster Risk Management (JNAP 1).
Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit United States Agency for International Development European Union United Nations Development Programme Green Climate Fund Tonga - government
2016

This response plan was developed by the Government of the Kingdom of Tonga and humanitarian and development partners, following Tropical Cyclone Winston which struck the Vava’u island group, in central Tonga, from 16-19 February 2016. It has a 6 month

Tonga - government

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Cover CFE-DM
2023
The Handbook focuses on Tonga’s disaster management framework and disaster risk reduction strategies. It also provides an overview of the country’s government, geography, demographics, socio-cultural practices, and history of natural disasters.
Center for Excellence in Disaster Management & Humanitarian Assistance
Tonga cover page
2022
The disaster risk reduction status report provides a snapshot of the state of disaster risk reduction in the the Republic of Vanuatu under four priorities of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030.
United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction - Sub-Regional Office for the Pacific