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This national action plan for disaster risk management (DRM NAP) sets out the vision, goals, objectives and actions for disaster risk management in the Marshall Islands. While disaster management to date has been largely the preserve of the National

Pacific island countries are exposed to significant risks from natural disasters. As a disaster relief measure, Fiji allowed pre-retirement pension withdrawls in the wake of Cyclone Winston in 2016. Motivated by this policy action, this paper provides a

This Post-Disaster Needs Assessment (PDNA) review is the first instance of the participating institutions assessing the demonstrated effectiveness of PDNAs as the practice has evolved over the 55 post-disaster assessments conducted since 2008.

In response to the 2015-2016 El Niño drought, communities in the remote, drought prone, northern atolls of the Republic of Marshall Islands are trialling new food security measures to increase the availability of local food crops, expand the use of drought resistant crop varieties, improve soil management practices, and establish nurseries.

This profile provides an overview of climate risk issues in the Pacific Islands region, including the Federated States of Micronesia, Fiji, Kiribati, Nauru, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Marshall Islands, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tonga, Tuvalu, and Vanuatu. 

The National Strategic Plan (NSP) of the Republic of the Marshall Islands (RMI) is designed as a framework to coordinate the articulated medium term development goals and objectives of the RMI government at the national level. The NSP will be used by

Small island states around the world are among the areas most vulnerable to climate change and sea level rise. This paper presents results from an innovative methodology for a quantitative assessment of multiple hazards on coastal risks, driven by

The study finds that direct and indirect damages due to flooding and coastal erosion on Ebeye Island are possible. The main source of direct damages are damages to the houses and to the causeway. Estimated total damages may increase of about a factor 3 to