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USAID/Bureau for Humanitarian Assistance: Development & Disaster Risk Reduction, East Asia and The Pacific - Fiscal Year (FY) 2020

Communities across East Asia and the Pacific (EAP) face recurrent extreme weather events and natural hazards—such as earthquakes, floods, storms, and volcanic eruptions—that can lead to sudden-onset...

This week, the 2021 tide prediction calendars for 23 locations across the Pacific have been released to 14 national meteorological and weather offices. These annual calendars are a popular product of...

A blog by Jonathan Kings and Stuart Minchin Data and statistics about the Pacific are not easy to find unless you know where to look, or they’re your own. Often they can be fragmented, and tangible...

New InsuRisk report analyzes disaster risk and readiness for insurance solutions in Small Island Developing States Last night at the 4th InsuResilience Global Partnership Forum, UNU-EHS and the...

Singapore - 07 December 2020 News Number: G/57/2020 The Impact Investment Exchange (IIX) has successfully closed its US$27.7 million Women’s Livelihood Bond TM 3 (WLB3), the third bond in the...

Palau –The Federated States of Micronesia, Kiribati, Palau, Tuvalu and Vanuatu will receive Tsunami Preparedness Kits earmarked for schools as part of Phase II of the Strengthening School...

HIGHLIGHTS Disasters are threatening the lives of millions of people across the East Asia and the Pacific region and the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has contributed to rising...

SITUATION OVERVIEW The Asia-Pacific region was the first in the world affected by COVID-19, which was identified in China in December 2019. As of November 2020, more than 12.2 million confirmed cases...

The Government of the United Kingdom (UK) of Great Britain and Northern Ireland represented by the British High Commission, Suva, has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the World Health...