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Capacity Building for Climate
resilience in Pacific Island
Countries 10/08/2016
UNESCAP – SPC Workshop
Tanoa Hotel, Nadi
Viliamu. Iese
Pacific Center for Environment and Sustainable Development
The University of the South Pacific
Our canoe of islands: We anticipate the risks
and act accordingly to reduce it and keep it afloat
• The World Food Summit
of 1996 defined food
security as existing “when
all people at all times
have access to sufficient,
safe, nutritious food to
maintain a healthy and
active life”
Anticipate the risks
• Anticipated a rough journey -
stormy weathers, strong currents
– built seaworthy canoes
• Anticipated a long journey –
stored foods, water and packed
fishing gears and knowledge of
fishing and processing foods
• Anticipated landing – took
planting materials and livestock
including knowledge of
cultivation, cooking and
utilization of foods
• Gene of storing “fuel”
Important lessons
• Sustainable Capacity Building
• Appropriate Technologies and Tools
• Research, Innovation and Dissemination
of Information
The University of the South
Pacific
Strategic Plan 2013-2018
Sustainable Capacity Building –
Formal Qualification
• School of Agriculture and
Food Technology (SAFT)
• PGDip, MSc, PhD
• PGDip Climate Change -
Climate Science – CCA –
DRM – Ecosystem
Services - SEA/EIA –
Project Management –
Multilateral Reporting –
Food Security and
Climate Change (USP,
FAO, SPC, WFP, Fiji
Food Security Cluster)
Non Formal Capacity Building
• EU-PAC TVET (Energy and Resilience)
• Resilience Competencies – finalized
• Climate change and DRM Agriculture –
not a certification of participation –
Regional Qualification
• DRR – Agriculture - FAO
Informal
• EU-GCCA – 15 countries including Timor
Leste
• Regional and Sub-regional Trainings on
assessing and understanding risks and
building adaptation strategies
• Implementation and M&E
Tools and Technologies
Additional Info • FAO – DRR Agriculture Fiji, Agromet
support, Food Security and Livelihood
Cluster (Fiji government, MORDITT)
• Integrated Vulnerability Assessment tool
(15 PICs, more than 200 communities)
• Pacific Islands Food Security Best
Practices Report
• Support mainstreaming of CCDRM in
Community Development Plans – Tonga
and Fiji (MORDI TT, Live and Learn and
UNDP
Research
• Crops Simulation modeling – applied and
development – impacts, adaptation (USA,
CSIRO)
• Climate Resilient Agro-systems
• Climate Science and Oceanography
• Community based participatory research –
to understand impacts of hazards and
farmers coping and adaptive measures
• Seaweed biogas and fertilizer
Evaluation of Community Based Climate Change and Disaster Risk
Management Integration into Community Development Plans in Fiji and Tonga
Lead investigator: Mr Viliamu Iese
Pacific Centre for Environment and Sustainable Development, The University of the South Pacific
About the research Outputs and impacts Methodology
Fiji Islands
Kingdom of Tonga
2. Awareness
4. Processes 3. Benefits
1. Tools
Analysis - Criteria
Research team: Mr Viliamu Iese, Dr Helene Jacot Des
Combe,
Dr Robin Havea, Mr Soane Patolo, Dr Annika Dean, Mr Ame
Tuisavusavu, Mr Seone Lolesio, Dr Morgan Wairiu and Mr
Taniela Hoponoa.
Toolkit adopted by partners in Fiji and Tonga, and other
regional partners and Pacific Island Countries.
Toolkit Paper
1 Paper 2 Paper 3
Peer
reviewed
toolkit to
integrate
CCDRM in
Development
Plans.
Research problem
Climate change is projected to increase the onslaught of hydro-meteorological
hazards, threatening to hinder the development of Pacific Island Countries.
Two countries that are highly at risk in terms of exposure and vulnerability to
natural hazards are Tonga and Fiji. Disasters in these two countries have
caused loss of lives and severe damages to infrastructure, basic services, and
livelihoods beyond the ability to respond, disrupting the normal functioning of
communities.
Governments and rural development sectors have recognized the need to
shift from a reactive to a more proactive approach by integrating climate
change and disaster risk management (CCDRM) at all levels of development.
At the community level, climate change and disaster risk management have
begun to be integrated into community development plans in both Tonga and
Fiji.
Unfortunately, the ‘know how’ to effectively integrate CCDRM in development
plans is still an emerging area of knowledge and research in the Pacific. To
date, the methods used depend on the person or organization involved. This
leads to several problems such as increased confusion in communities,
communities feeling ‘burnt out’ because of over-visitation from various actors,
wasted time searching for the ‘supposed to be right’ method causing delays in
implementation and limited ability to compare the risk levels of communities
within and between countries.
A major barrier hindering effective and efficient integration of CCDRM into
community development plans is the lack of a standardized tool kit. There is a
strong need to review and evaluate all available methods and produce a
toolkit outlining best practices that could be used at all levels in Pacific Island
Countries.
Research objectives
1. To critically review existing methods and approaches on
integrating CCDRM in Community Development Plans in
PICs and other SIDS.
2. To develop a standardized CCDRM tool for PICs based on
Tonga
and Fiji experiences, lessons learnt and best practices.
3. To disseminate the lessons learnt, best practices and
CCDRM
tool kit to relevant stakeholders and wider scientific
communities.
Literature
review of
CCDRM
integration
in the
Pacific.
Comparative
analysis of
communities
with and
without
CCDRM
integration in
Tonga and Fiji.
Case studies
of best
practices,
challenges
and
opportunities
in integrating
CCDRM.
Literature
review
Surveys
(Kobo Toolbox)
Key
informant
interviews
and focus
groups
Photo credit: Viliamu Iese
Photo credit:
Viliamu Iese
Last words • Universities could play an active role in supporting the
mainstreaming processes and implementation
• Capacity Building – formal systems – sustainability
supply of “mainstreamed” people (agriculture etc)
• Non formal and informal trainings
• Research to support the processes and implementation
of mainstreaming pathways
• Research on CC and impacts, resilience, DRM
• Could facilitate data storage, access and utilization
• Development of tools and communication materials and
dissemination
• We can be very fun and effective to work with
Vinaka
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