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The government of Japan, through the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), delivered a new radio broadcasting transmission facility to improve Solomon Islands disaster early warning system. The facility increases the coverage of radio broadcasting to nearly 100 percent of the country’s population, which will be significant to unite the country for disaster preparation...
Fijian Minister for National Disaster Management, Inia Seruiratu said the way forward to addressing climate change and disaster risk management in the region is to do it the ‘pacific way’. ‘We need to understand the issues first before we can effectively respond,’ Seruiratu says. ‘We should be customizing best-practices from the world over and in the Pacific to suit our local context’...
The Goverment of Japan will give US$2.73 million financial support to the initiative, which will integrate disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation across sectors; improve climate and disaster risk information and communication; and increase the resilience of rural communities in Solomon Islands to climate change and natural hazards...
PM Danny Phillip has signed a €2.8 million ($30m) deal with the EC to help build resilience and adapt to the effects of climate change, reports the Solomon Times. 'For the Pacific Islands these changes cause alterations especially on our shorelines and land that impact on our social and economic lifestyles' said Phillip...
A forum on disaster risk management and reduction kicked off in Honiara yesterday, as part of the ActionAid-SIDT project, 'Protection Integration into Disaster Risk Reduction and Disaster Risk Management' funded by AusAid, reports the Solomon Star...
The Horabau community has recently constructed an evacuation and resource centre for the inhabitants of North West Guadalcanal as part of a local preparedness project. The Government is currently introducing a National Reduction Management Plan to include all natural hazards reports the Solomon Star...
Disaster simulation exercises have successfully been carried out in 11 villages to test community disaster response plans for tsunami and cyclone evacuations...
The Solomon Star reports on the launch of a community-based disaster risk reduction programme, funded by the European Commission’s Humanitarian Aid Department, with the aim of strengthening the disaster preparedness capacities of vulnerable communities in Guadalcanal, Western, Malaita and Temotu provinces...
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