“This Resilience Partnership and Meeting was established by Pacific leaders to support the implementation of the Framework. Because of increasing climate and disaster risk, the region has to develop in a smart and sustainable way,” Mr Raygadas.

“We have to care for our islands and our oceans to adapt to the reality of climate change. Pacific leaders want to see more collaboration and coherence around how we do this.”

The Pacific Resilience Meeting was preceded by a Youth Forum which issued its own Outcome Statement ‘Nothing About Us Without Us’ with recommendations on how to better partner with young people.

In the margins of the Meeting, the UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction and the Government of Australia held a series of consultations in preparation or the Asia Pacific Ministerial Conference of Disaster Risk Reduction (APMCDRR 2020), which will be held for the first time in the Pacific region in Brisbane, Australia in June 2020.

The Pacific Resilience Meeting was held at the University of the South Pacific, Suva, Fiji from 1 to 3 May 2019. It was organized by The Pacific Resilience Partnership (PRP), which is a unique partnership to support the implementation of the Framework for Resilient Development in the Pacific. The PRP is comprised of representatives from countries and territories in the region; civil society and private sector; and regional organisations and development partners.

Date:

12 May 2019

Sources:

United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction - Sub-Regional Office for the Pacific (UNDRR Pacific)

Themes:

Small Island Developing States (SIDS)

Regions:

Asia, Oceania