Integrate Pasifika contributes to increasing Pacific Island Countries' ability to provide technical support for risk-informed decision-making to build resilience to climate change impacts.
It aims to build regional and national capacity in technical areas and facilitate peer-to-peer learning and exchange, providing a platform for practitioners, and a space for decision-makers. Integrate Pasifika will help to facilitate and convene the peer-to-peer exchanges, and formalise these as Communities of Practice, also providing a medium for collaboration through the knowledge management platform.
It builds on investment and evaluations of disaster risk assessment initiatives implemented by the Pacific Community with technical partners and countries. Integrate Pacifika is being implemented through a collaboration between the National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research Ltd (NIWA), the Pacific Community (SPC), the six Pacific Risk Tools for Resilience Project (PARTneR) countries of ( Cook Islands, Republic of the Marshall Islands, Samoa, Tonga, Tuvalu and Vanuatu) and agencies developing and applying risk assessment tools.