SPC Geoscience Division

Matching Samoa’s priorities with the interests of funding agencies is an important aspect of the county’s plans for emergency preparedness said the Principal Disaster Management Officer, Ms Filomena Nelson, during the 3^rd Pacific Platform for Disaster Risk Management (DRM) held in Auckland New Zealand in early August.

Two hundred delegates from 22 island countries and territories in the Pacific region, who met with experts from around the world to examine “a way forward” to reduce the risks of disasters, including the impacts of climate change, that are affecting development in the Pacific region.