Barriers to effective adaptation and resilience planning in the Pacific: an information management perspective

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 the important role played by climate change data and information management in effective adaptation and resilience planning.

The document discusses the following recommendations, categorised in four domains for the Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP) and Governments of Fiji, Vanuatu and Tonga:

• policy recommendations
  • SPREP to investigate options for establishing a regional policy framework that can guide climate change and disaster risk reduction information management activities in the Pacific;
• institutional recommendations
  • SPREP to investigate options for establishing a formal working group to coordinate and guide policy and practices for climate change data and information management in the Pacific;
• operational and human resource recommendations
  • SPREP to establish and host a Regional Coordinator position for climate change information management;
• information and communications technology recommendations
  • SPREP to work with Governments of Fiji, Tonga and Vanuatu to investigate regional or cloud hosting options for national climate change portals.

This document is published under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Australia licence.