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Samoa: Research to boost resilience

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By Adel Fruean

The water and sanitation sector hopes to move forward by investing more on research to boost resilience to climate change and natural disaster. 

This was according to the Water and Sanitation Sector Coordinator, Ruth Ueselani, during the Eighth National Water and Sanitation Sector Forum at the Samoa Convention Center, T.A.T.T.E. Building yesterday.

“There is an initiative under the water and sanitation sector called the research initiative programme.

“The programme involves all the data and information that is needed by the implementing agencies for the work that they do. However, there is no dedicated person assigned for this task so this is where they present their concepts to our division to advertise for independent researchers outside the sector to conduct research,” she said. 

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Ruth said they have independent researchers, private consultancies and researchers from the National University of Samoa who have done independent research and analysis for the sector.

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“They present to the sector their findings based on what they investigated, and how the information will address the information gaps of the sector.

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Themes Climate change Information management Water Disaster risk management Small Island Developing States (SIDS)
Country and region Samoa
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