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Palau National Water Summit Download as iCal file
Tuesday, 22 March 2011, 8:00am - 5:00pm
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Raise awareness on water issues at all levels of the society and taking a step towards developing National Water Policies and the formation of National Water Taskforces
Location : Koror,Palau
Contact : Dave Hebblethwaite: SPC IWRM Adviser: mobile (+680) 7792731, email: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
Extra Contacts Gwen Sisior: Palau Water Policy Officer: mobile: (+680) 7799875, email: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it Tiy Chung: SPC Communications Advisor: mobile: (+692) 4563124 email: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

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Monday 16 September 2013, Secretariat of the Pacific Community (SPC), Suva, Fiji: Fifty-nine staff members of the Secretariat of the Pacific (SPC) staff have completed disaster risk management (DRM) and climate change training in recent months.

Half-day training sessions were held in Suva (Fiji), Honiara (Solomon Islands), Pohnpei (Federated States of Micronesia) and Noumea (New Caledonia), designed to build staff capacity in areas related to climate change and disaster risk management. It is part of a programme of action to mainstream these issues across all of the divisions of SPC.

Because of their impact on social, economic, market and industry sectors, DRM and climate change are considered ‘cross-cutting’ issues, and SPC is integrating such issues into its programmatic approach to development.  This process is referred to as mainstreaming.

SPC is the Pacific region’s principal technical and scientific organisation. Its divisions are involved in research and project implementation in the areas of applied geoscience and technology; public health; fisheries, aquaculture and marine environment; economic development (transport and energy); statistics for development; land resources (agriculture, forestry, land use, animal health, etc.); and education, training and human development.

The training for SPC staff is designed to enable them to better understand DRM and climate change and to factor this professional awareness into personal roles and functions. The training is also designed to enable SPC staff to further contribute to the organisational goal of serving Pacific Island countries and territories (PICTs) by assisting them to mainstream DRM and climate change into national and regional planning processes.