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29 November 2023

Tonga hosts stress testing and resilient principles scorecard workshop

The Government of Tonga (MEIDECC), in collaboration with CDRI, UNDRR and UNOSAT, successfully hosted a two-day workshop to conduct Critical Infrastructure Stress Testing and Principles for Resilient Infrastructure scorecard.

United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR)

Coalition for Disaster Resilient Infrastructure

United Nations Satellite Centre

Update

16 November 2023

The Samoan weather service looks ahead to the cyclone season and what impact El Niño might have

The Samoan weather station that has been in the same spot for more than 100 years, and how the service is now looking at new methods of messaging.

Australian Broadcasting Corporation

Update

10 November 2023

The impact the El Niño weather pattern could have on Tongan farmers

Most irrigation for Tongan food crops relies on rainwater, so with the El Niño weather pattern taking over in late 2023, farmers need to think differently about how they work.

Australian Broadcasting Corporation

Documents and publications

23 October 2023

Tonga seismic risk profile

This seismic risk profile of Tonga, produced by the Global Earthquake Model (GEM) Foundation summarizes key metrics of seismic risk, allowing stakeholders in risk management to get an overview of the risk in the country.

Update

21 September 2023

Lessons learned from the Tonga eruption and tsunami early warning system, and what that means for other Pacific countries

The weather and how it affects you is already part of your life, so let's keep talking about being prepared.

Australian Broadcasting Corporation

Update

15 August 2023

Helping children in Tonga COPE with natural hazards and disasters

The Kingdom of Tonga makes up the 35 countries and over three million children that have access to the COPE disaster book series targeted at increasing their disaster resilience.

Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme

Documents and publications

11 August 2023

Disasters, crises and violence against women: Evidence from big data analysis

The UN Women's Regional Office in Asia and the Pacific undertook a study harnessing big data from social media searches and posts, to uncover the discourse on violence against women (VAW).

Documents and publications

12 July 2023

USAID climate risk analysis for Pacific Island countries: Assessment report

This report presents a climate risk analysis of twelve Pacific Island countries: the Federated State of Micronesia, Fiji, Kiribati, Nauru, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Marshall Islands, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tonga, Tuvalu and Vanuatu.