Fiji

Fiji has carried out a thorough post-disaster needs assessment in the wake of Cyclone Winston, pointing the way forward for disaster risk reduction (Photo: IFRC)
There were fears of very large loss of life when Fiji was hit in February this year by the first category 5 cyclone in its recorded history, and the strongest ever seen in the southern hemisphere.
United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction - Regional Office for Asia and Pacific
Mr. Robert Glasser, head of UNISDR (right), chats with Mr. Stéphane Dion, Canada's Minister of Foreign Affairs (left), after the session on gender, climate change and disaster risk reduction (Photo: UNISDR)
Policymakers working to rein in the impact of climate change and natural hazards must keep the issue of gender squarely in the spotlight, Canada’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Mr. Stéphane Dion told a United Nations meeting today.
United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction
Cyclone Winston has battered Fiji, but the toll could have been worse without the country's early warning system
The head of the UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction, Mr. Robert Glasser, today extended his condolences to Fiji on the loss of life from Cyclone Winston and commended the government for its efforts to reduce mortality and the numbers of people affected by the strongest cyclone ever to hit the Pacific country.
United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction
NADI, Fiji, 9 September 2015 – When floods closed Fiji’s main international airport for the only time in its history, economic shockwaves rippled through the tourism-dependent country.
United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction - Regional Office for Asia and Pacific
United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction - Office in Incheon for Northeast Asia and Global Education and Training Institute for Disaster Risk Reduction

This document reports on the Private sector forum: Making the business case for disaster risk reduction (DRR), held on 13-14 January 2015 in Suva, Fiji. It identifies the following main outcomes:

  • (i) Fijian business shared several good practices in

This summary provides the Chair’s assessment of the main points of the key issues discussed during the Pacific Platform for Disaster Risk Management, held in Suva, Fiji on 2–4 June 2014.

It presents (i) the findings of a ten-year review of the Hyogo

This document reflects the inputs received from an extensive multi-stakeholder consultations process involving governments, organizations and various networks in the Asia-Pacific region from March 2012 to date. At the request of the United Nations (UN)

Delegates at the 6th Pacific Platform finalise the Meeting Statement ahead of the close of the three-day forum. (Photo: UNISDR)
The 6th Pacific Platform for Disaster Risk Management closed yesterday with a call for strengthened action to prevent risk accumulation and to build resilience.
United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction - Regional Office for Asia and Pacific
United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction - Sub-Regional Office for the Pacific
Neori Lagi (left) of the Pacific Disability Forum receives a Pacific Innovation & Leadership Award for Resilience (PILAR) from H.E. Kenichi Suganuma, Japan’s Ambassador for the Third UN World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction. (Photo: UNISDR)
A trio of creative organisations supporting the development of community resilience have been recognised for their great work in the Pacific region.
United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction - Regional Office for Asia and Pacific
United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction - Sub-Regional Office for the Pacific
Fiji Minister Seruiratu said the Pacific deserves its place among the world’s best in terms of integrating disaster risk and climate change strategies. (Photo: UNISDR)
The Pacific region today challenged itself to grasp what was described as a ‘pivotal moment’ to shape disaster risk and climate change efforts for at least the next 20 years.
United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction - Regional Office for Asia and Pacific
United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction - Sub-Regional Office for the Pacific

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