Fiji

This DRF guides the planning and implementation of recovery programmes and projects, providing overall direction to the government, the private sector, development partners, civil society and communities.

This document attempts to fill knowledge gaps regarding the role of the private sector in disaster recovery and draws from the wider body of knowledge and from documented experiences of past and present disaster planning and recovery.

In 2012 alone Fiji experienced three major events with estimated total damage of F$146 million (US$78 million) and is expected to incur more losses due to earthquakes and tropical cyclones. In that context, the government has generated substantial

This publication identifies regional and national-level barriers to climate change data and information management in the Pacific and especially in Fiji, Tonga and Vanuatu. This document comes into the context of a growing appreciation in the Pacific of

This publication analyzes how villagers in Lomanikoro, Fiji, perceive and manage flood risks. Community preparedness is an important component of risk reduction strategies implemented by national authorities and international organizations in Fiji. The

Uncertainty about future climate creates challenges in both adaptation planning and evaluation. Defining and determining success in adaptation therefore can be difficult. This publication, however, does not attempt to address all of the issues and

This new publication from the World Meteorological Organization provides a wide-ranging description of how small island States and territories in the Caribbean, Indian Ocean and Pacific regions are using seasonal predictions and other climate information

Global Environmental Change, Volume 38, May 2016, pp. 153-170, doi:10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2016.03.005:

The objective of this paper is to better understand the various individual and household factors that influence resilience, that is, people’s ability to