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SPC hosts training to build capacity for resilient development
A one week training workshop in Nadi, Fiji, that focuses on how to mainstream disaster risk reduction into development includes participants from the Cook Islands, Fiji, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tonga, and Vanuatu. (Contributed Photo)
Despite recognition of the importance of disaster resilient approaches to development, many countries face challenges in identifying ways to effectively mainstream risk reduction considerations into national development planning processes. To address this, the Secretariat of the Pacific Community, in partnership with the Asian Disaster Preparedness Center is holding a one week training workshop that focuses on how to mainstream disaster risk reduction into development.
The training, in Nadi, Fiji, from July 14 to 18, includes participants from the Cook Islands, Fiji, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tonga, and Vanuatu with representatives of National Disaster Management Offices and ministries responsible for national planning and finance. Representatives from the Pacific islands Forum Secretariat, Secretariat of the Pacific Community, Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Program and United Nations Development Program will also participate in the training workshop.
A mixture of theory, case studies, and exercises will be used to increase participants’ knowledge and skills in areas such as risk assessment, understanding the links between development and disasters, selecting appropriate risk reduction options and identifying and entry points to mainstream risk reduction in development. The training workshop will further build capacities of government planning officials in the Pacific Region to plan and implement disaster resilient development through enhancing their understanding of the integration of Disaster Risk Reduction considerations in the development planning process.
The training workshop is supported by the Asian Disaster Preparedness Center and the Secretariat of the Pacific Community. The Asian Disaster Preparedness Center works in a number of countries in the Asia Pacific region to strengthen disaster resilience at all levels. The Secretariat of the Pacific Community is an international organization that works in public health, geoscience, agriculture, forestry, water resources, disaster management, fisheries, education, statistics, transport, energy, human rights, gender, youth and culture to help Pacific Island people achieve sustainable development. (SPC)
