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Displaying 45 of about 371 resultsThe Hon. Prime Minister Samuela ‘Akilisi Pohiva and his fellow Leaders from Japan and the Pacific Islands countries met in Iwaki City, Fukushima, Japan, on the 23rd May 2015 for the Seventh Pacific Islands Leaders’ Meeting (PALM7).
The keynote address during the Opening Session was delivered by the Prime Minister of Japan, Hon Shinzo Abe. Prime Ministe…
Bridgetown, Barbados – The Board of Directors of the Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) approved, today, grant assistance of USD2,377,250 to the Government of Haiti to meet the country’s insurance premium for coverage being provided by the Caribbean Catastrophe Risk Insurance Facility (CCRIF) for the 2015-2016 hurricane season.
Haiti is one of 16 Caribbea…
Vanuatu - Following devastation caused by Tropical Cyclone Pam on 13 March 2015, IOM undertook an assessment of the Vanuatu Customs and Inland Revenue (CIR) and the Vanuatu Immigration Service (VIS) to determine the extent of damage to operational capabilities and to propose reconstruction activities to reinstate them to pre-cyclone level.
Due to subst…
A crucial workshop to prepare three North Pacific nations for their participation in negotiations at the upcoming UN Climate Change Conference opens in Pohnpei today, supported by the Government of Germany.
Senior officials from Palau, Federated States of Micronesia (FSM) and the Republic of the Marshall Islands (RMI) will be updated on the current sta…
Vanuatu's education sector has been allocated 7.3 million US dollars for reconstruction in the wake of Cyclone Pam, reports Radio New Zealand. The Ministry of Education says after waiting almost five months, it will now rebuild the 70 percent of school buildings that were damaged by the severe cyclone.
The Cook Islands Finance Minister, Mark Brown says because of climate change, key infrastructure needs to be built with the expectation it will be hit more often and more severely by natural disasters, reports Radio New Zealand.
Mr. Brown says preparation is key, like having emergency response plans in place beforehand, and key infrastructure built and…
Washington – The World Bank’s Board of Executive Directors today approved US$32.29 million in International Development Association (IDA) grants and credits to support the Pacific Resilience Program – a series of projects to strengthen Pacific Island countries’ resilience to natural disasters.
The Pacific Resilience Program will initially provide assis…
By Lara Palmisano
This week, the International Day for Disaster Reduction celebrates how traditional, indigenous and local knowledge can reduce risks. COOPI in Haiti works closely with local communities and institutions, as well as with civil society and the private sector.
Flooding, drought, landslides, heavy storms, hurricanes, earthquakes and tsuna…
By Catherine Wilson
Madang, Papua New Guinea - For 11 years, the people of Manam Island, a volcano rising out of the Bismarck Sea around 15 km off Papua New Guinea's north coast, have waited to be resettled after fleeing devastating eruptions in 2004.
In July this year, another eruption inflicted more suffering on several thousand people who had retur…
Political commitment, partnership needed to protect SIDS against rising sea levels and climate changes
Rome - Urgent action is needed to secure the future and food security of Small Island Developing States (SIDS) against the disproportionate effects of climate change, FAO Director-General José Graziano da Silva said at Expo Milan today.
Speaking at a…
The Bermuda National Gallery (BNG) is getting set to host the 2015 Student Art Competition, under the theme "Local Action, Global Impact: A Community Project on the World", with a call for submissions now open, reports Bernews.
Students are asked to consider the three issues of sustainable development: Climate Change, Biodiversity and Disaster Risk-Red…
Jamaica is to benefit from a US$20-million pilot climate-change adaptation programme to be funded mainly by the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), which will be implemented by the Ministry of Land, Water, Environment and Climate Change, working with selected, allied state agencies and non-government organisations, reports The Gleaner.
The overall o…
World Bank Board approves US$3 million grant for long-term recovery efforts
Washington D.C. — Six months after Cyclone Pam hit the Pacific, the World Bank’s Board of Executive Directors today approved an additional US$3 million grant to support Tuvalu’s medium-term recovery efforts.
Almost half of Tuvalu’s 10,000 people were affected by the category 5…
Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands – CCRIF SPC (formerly the Caribbean Catastrophe Risk Insurance Facility) has made a payment of EC$6.5 million (approximately US$2.4 million), the maximum payable under the policy, to the Government of Dominica under the Facility’s Excess Rainfall Programme – as a result of rains that occurred during Tropical Storm Erika on A…
Discussions are underway with the World Bank to redirect funds approved under the Disaster Vulnerability Reduction Project (DVRP).
The Hon. Prime Minister made the announcement when he addressed the nation on Monday September 7th.
“Confirmation has been given that an amount of US $14.7m can be reallocated for Erika reconstruction projects. The bank is…