To finalise the Vanuatu GCF full project proposal and endorsement.
For more information please contact: Anthony Blake, BSRP Project, SPC, Email: [email protected]
Globally the senior members of our communities usually feature highly in the death and injury statistics that arise from disasters. The United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNISDR) Head, Margareta Wahlström, stated in 2014: ‘The older person is often invisible in our communities until they show up in the mortality figures after a disaster event. Demographic change means we are living in an ageing world. It is important to include older persons in disaster management for both their improved protection and to make full use of their experience, skills and knowledge in support of that’. (UNISDR, 2014)
For more information, please contact: Noa Tokavou, BSRP Project, SPC, Email: [email protected]
For more information please contact: Anthony Blake, BSRP Project, SPC, Email: [email protected]
Meeting is organised by the Pacific Islands Fire and Emergency Services Association.
For more information, please contact: Anthony Blake, BSRP Project, SPC, Email: [email protected]
SPC BSRP support to Kiribati Teachers College (KTC) for Professional Development in the area of Climate Change and associated hazard risks awareness for secondary school teachers in Kiritimati, Kiribati.
For more information please contact: Waisale Naqiolevu, BSRP Project, SPC, Email: [email protected]
The Solomon Islands NDMO, SPC BSRP and UNOCHA are jointly supporting a Workshop looking at i) Multi-agency Initial Damage Assessment Processes, ii) NEOC Arrangements and iii) Standard Operating Procedures from the 13th-20th June.
For more information, please contact - Waisale Naqiolevu, BSRP Project, SPC, Email: [email protected]
The Health Emergencies in Large Populations (H.E.L.P) course is hosted by the Center for Excellence in Disaster Management and Humanitarian Assistance (CFE-DM) in collaboration with the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and the partnership of University of Hawaii's Office of Public Health Studies. The H.E.L.P. course is a two-week, graduate-level training course, providing participants with an understanding of the major public health issues to be addressed among populations affected by natural and man-made disasters and conflicts. he H.E.L.P. course provides participants with the tools, frameworks, and decision-making skills necessary to effectively respond to the needs of populations in emergency situations. The course undergoes rigorous academic and quality reviews to ensure the delivery of a comprehensive, evidence- and competency-based curriculum, incorporating innovative approaches in the planning and delivery of public health interventions.
The Innovations in Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) workshop will highlight recent advances in information and communication technologies (ICTs) and how they are empowering both decision-makers and citizens to play a proactive role in managing disaster risks and providing more effective disaster response. The workshop will build upon experience and expertise in ICTs and DRR by both UNDP and a diverse network of organizations, who have come together over the past two years to train environmental professionals in the field (http://isepei.org/workshops). Combining regional UNDP experience, ICT industry expertise, and accumulated first-hand knowledge by this global community of practice, the workshop will offer both theoretical and practical skills in disaster risk reduction, monitoring, and recovery.
A technical training and hand-holding workshop on development of Greenhouse Gas (GHG) inventories is being organized for relevant stakeholders in Fiji on 21st & 22nd June 2016 as part of the Third National Communication (TNC) project activities.
The overall objective is to empower the stakeholders in Fiji to achieve the necessary level of expertise to develop GHG inventory through data collection, analysis, monitoring and reporting procedures as required by UNFCCC. The specific objectives include:
- Introduce stakeholders to the National Communication reporting process and requirements under the UNFCCC including scope and general principles for GHG inventories.
- Development of capacities among the stakeholders to collect, compile and archive the data for GHG sectors and prepare GHG emission projections and scenarios.
- Enabling relevant stakeholders in Fiji to monitor and report GHG independently in compliance with the UNFCCC requirements.
- Train stakeholders on using an updated IPCC 2006 modules and software for development of GHG inventory including quality assurance, control and uncertainty assessment.
The program is intended to provide all participants with an opportunity to contribute and learn. The program will examine what we have learnt in the past few years and provided a comprehensive forum to address the expertise, competencies and systems relating to the preparedness for future disasters, emergencies and hazards and the ability to recover from them quickly and efficiently.
For more informaton contact: http://anzdmc.com.au
‘To enhance the quality of higher education in Asia and the Pacific region through strengthening the work of quality assurance agencies and extending the cooperation between them.’ APQN aims to enhance the quality of higher education in Asia and the Pacific region through building the capacity of quality assurance agencies and extending the cooperation between them. We do this by promoting good practice, facilitating research, providing advice, information and expertise, developing links between QA agencies, assisting members to determine the standards of cross-border institutions, and the international recognition of qualifications, enhancing the mobility of students between institutions and member nations through credit transfer schemes, and enabling members to recognize dubious accrediting practices and organizations.
For more information: contact on [email protected] or visit our website on www.fhec.org.fj . Phone Contact: 679 3100031
INQAAHE is a QA community, with shared interests, a common language and an understanding of how things are done with regard to a very specific field of work. It provides a forum for the discussion of global issues, such as cross border education, that go beyond national or regional boundaries. Members have the opportunity to learn from what others are doing, both from their successes and their faillures, and thus have now set the ground for the development of a QA profession. For further information please visit the website www.inqaahe.org
The Pacific Coalition for the Advancement of School Safety is an initiative in support of the Sendia Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction and the Worldwide Initiative for School Safety. The workshop aims to bring partners together from Ministries of Education and National Disaster Management Offices to share experience and good practice in improving School Safety across the Pacific. This includes ways to make all school facilities structurally safe and able to protect children during disasters (including at times acting as shelters for communities), to ensure appropriate school disaster management practices are effectively implemented, and that risk reduction and climate change education is taught in schools in order to build a culture of safety in schools and in communities.
For more inforrmation contact : Danielle Wade [email protected]
FIG Working Weeks combine meetings of FIG’s General Assembly and administrative bodies with a technical conference over three days with 8–10 parallel sessions, organised by FIG Council and the ten FIG Commissions together with the host member association (in this instance, the New Zealand Institute of Surveyors). Working Weeks offer the opportunity for commissions to implement their work programmes and for FIG to network at a local, regional and international level.
Registration will open October 2015. For more information go to: http://www.fig.net/fig2016/index.htm
For more information contact Noa Tokavou, Email: [email protected]
This conference will provide government and non-government professionals at all levels a valuable opportunity to share information globally about wildland fire behavior and fuels, especially as it pertains to physical, biological, economic, and social sciences. The 5th International Fire Behavior and Fuels Conference offers a forum where past experience and lessons learned are documented, current work showcased, and emerging ideas/technology presented to provide a strong foundation that will facilitate setting a course to the future that addresses and responds to developing challenges locally, regionally, and globally.For more information please visit: https://www.unisdr.org/we/inform/events/46800
For more information please contact Norense Iyahen, GSD, Pacific Community, email: [email protected]
The Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction, the global roadmap for disaster risk reduction from 2015 – 2030 recognizes the importance of gender-dimensions in disaster risk reduction (DRR) and calls for inclusiveness and engagement of all society. Sendai Framework called for: “A gender perspective should be integrated into all disaster risk management policies, plans and decision making processes, including those related to risk assessment, early warning, information management and education and training.” In general, the course aims to integrate gender perspective in disaster risk management to ensure that both women and men have the necessary capacities in addressing their respective vulnerabilities to enable them to protect themselves, their families and their immediate communities.Further inquires about the course may be sent to: [email protected]
Extension of a state of natural disaster after Tropical Cyclone Winston.