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Women play a critical leadership role in the provision of healthcare across the Asia-Pacific Region, including during disasters. They are working to build more resilient health systems and helping transform the way healthcare is provided.
United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction - Regional Office for Asia and Pacific
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This legal study is part of a wider project which aims to strengthen the capacity of selected Pacific atoll island countries to cope with the long-term adverse impacts of climate change and boost their resilience.
Documents and publications

This profile is intended to serve as public goods to facilitate upstream country diagnostics, policy dialogue, and strategic planning by providing comprehensive overviews of trends and projected changes in key climate parameters, sector-specific

RMI cover page
Documents and publications
The disaster risk reduction status report provides a snapshot of the state of disaster risk reduction in the Republic of the Marshall Islands under four priorities of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030.
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Island nations share similar colonial histories and climate challenges. Without swift and dramatic adaptation, entire island nations could become uninhabitable.
Conversation Media Group, the
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A new programme initiated by the UNEP aims to establish climate information services and multi-hazard early warning systems in Pacific Small Island Developing States.
United Nations Environment Programme
Chair and panelists of the inaugural webinar of PRP
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Suva – In light of the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, coupled with sudden and slow disasters, Fiji, the Republic of Marshall Islands (RMI) and Tuvalu are re-examining how their laws can be updated to better reflect the increasing complexity of disasters
United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction - Regional Office for Asia and Pacific
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The government of the Marshall Islands has partnered with Deltares to carry out a multi-hazard risk assessment to evaluate current and future risks to the Majuro atoll.
Deltares

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