Vanuatu disaster management reference handbook 2023

This Vanuatu disaster management reference handbook focuses on Palau's disaster management framework and disaster risk reduction strategies. It also provides an overview of the country's government, geography, demographics, social cultural practices, and history of disasters.

Since the major impacts of Tropical Cyclone Pam in 2015, Vanuatu has undertaken disaster management reforms to focus more on risk mitigation and prevention actions rather than disaster response. Moreover, given the clear threat posed by climate change to Vanuatu’s people and land, climate change adaptation (CCA) is an inseparable part of disaster risk reduction (DRR) activities that the government undertakes alongside community groups and non-governmental organizations. As a partner of Vanuatu, the U.S. respects this emphasis and hopes to reinforce the island country’s efforts with programs under the auspices of the 21st-Century U.S.-Pacific Island Partnership, which incorporates various components that will undergird Vanuatu’s own standing disaster management processes.