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SPC and SPREP sign ‘Roadmap’ Letter
of Agreement
The initiative to develop an integrated regional strategy for Disaster Risk Management and Climate Change
by 2015 received a significant boost in June when the Chief Executives of SPC and SPREP signed a Letter
of Agreement to articulate their commitments in relation to the process of formulating the new strategy
commonly referred to as the ‘Roadmap’.
The Letter of Agreement maps out the collaborative arrangements in respect to developing an integrated
regional strategy for Disaster Risk Management and Climate Change by 2015 and reinforces a Memorandum
of Understanding which SPC and SPREP had signed in September 2011.
Through the Letter of Agreement, SPC and SPREP have agreed to jointly facilitate a process for developing
an integrated regional strategy for Disaster Risk Management (DRM) and Climate Change to replace the two
existing regional policy frameworks for DRM and for Climate Change - Pacific Disaster Risk Reduction and
Disaster Management Framework for Action 2005 - 2015 and the Pacific Islands Framework for Action on
Climate Change 2006 - 2015 (PIFACC).
The development of the regional strategy has been
endorsed by representatives of Pacific island countries
and territories, anddevelopment partners. Theprocess
of formulating the regional strategy, the 'Roadmap',
was endorsed at a series of meetings in 2011, which
included the Pacific Platform for DRM, the Directors
of Meteorological Service Meeting, SPREP Governing
Council, and the SPC Committee of Representatives of
Governments and Administrations.
SPC Director General Dr Jimmie Rodgers, said, “SPC
welcomes theopportunity to strengthenour support to
member countries and territories through this working
partnership with SPREP. It will help consolidate our
efforts to address disaster risk management and climate change, which are areas that touch all of the sectors
we work in.” He added, “an integrated approach is essential, recognising the varied elements that contribute
to climate change and disaster risk management, and taking into account the many partners and stakeholders
working in these areas.”