UNDP seeking unprecedented COVID-19 support for vulnerable countries
Disagreements between students and teachers at school, issues between a couple or elderly family members, a neighbour in a wheelchair who cannot access certain places because of the staircase, etc. Do we view these as human rights issues?
Kiribati, a small island nation in the Western Pacific Ocean, has the unenviable recognition of having the highest incidence of Tuberculosis among its neighbouring Pacific island countries.
Mission 1.5 aims to give 20 million people around the world the opportunity to have their say on ways to limit climate change that they want to see adopted by government leaders.
Pacific Island countries are facing considerable development challenges due to the increasing impacts of climate change and extreme geo-hazard events. Development must be risk informed to reduce vulnerability to climate change and disasters in the region.
Tucked in a section of the small but industrious town of Ba, is Rarawai and at 9 a.m. every day, you will find Amit Raj Singh, recording weather readings from one of Fiji’s oldest and longest climate station.
BLOG | The day I decided to marry data
I met data at work. Data had spent much time in the West showing exemplary results for public sector innovation. When data came to my home country - India, there was intrigue and some implicit demand. As someone who worked at the intersection of regulation, startups, and private sector, I had heard of data before. Data was smart, incisive, scientific and unlike other ‘innovation’ things – factual. Unlike others I had met, data was also verifiable and accurate – which made data really one of a kind. The folks in the governments would love data. It seemed like a good match.
BLOG | So we’re doing experiments and learning from them – but what comes after that?
As the new year gets off to an exciting start, the United Nations Development Programme’s 60 Accelerator Labs across the world are ready to unleash the full force of their intellectual capacity, protocols, tools and at some of the most intractable problems governments across the worlds face. The task for each lab is not a small one: To explore opportunities and solutions with regards to a particular frontier challenge.
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BLOG | Can reviving traditional knowledge systems improve climate resilience for coastal villages?
As the Accelerator Lab Pacific continues its exploration of “Climate Security for Low-Lying Coastal Areas/Atolls”, references to cultural identity continued to emerge. Cultural identity for each community in the Pacific is unique and has strengthened their resistance to climate change. Through a series of system mapping exercises with experts, we can see the interplay of growing globalization and increased migration (exacerbated by climate change). This has led to island communities losing touch with their traditional ways.
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About Pacific Office in Fiji
10.5 million
Total population
7.5%
Women in parliament
$2678.2
GNI per capita
0.645
Human Dev. Index
