From the Managers Desk

We have just completed the first annual meeting of the SOPAC Division of the SPC. Now no longer a separate regional intergovernmental organisation the former membership of the SOPAC Council as it was known up to 2010 was 'reconstituted' as the SOPAC Division Meeting.

The meeting included the reporting of work programme delivery by each of the threee SOPAC technical programme areas.

Importantly, the meeting endorsed a process for the development of an integrated regional strategy for Disaster Risk Management and Climate Change Adaptation & Mitigation by 2015.

Such a strategy would succeed the existing Pacific Disaster Risk Reduction and Disaster Management Framework for Action 2005 - 2015 and the Pacific Islands Framework for Action on Climate Change 2006 - 2015.
Ahead of us now is the challenge to implement the process that has been endorsed and we look to the guidance of all Pacific island countries and territories and the support of our partners like SPREP, UNISDR and others to realise the new policy instrument.

We have a number of interesting articles on our DRM activities in this edition and hope you enjoy them.

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Mosese Sikivou
Deputy Director
Disaster Reduction