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The inaugural Pacific Innovation & Leadership Award
for Resilience (PILAR) was launched by UNISDR to
recognise exemplary action taken by individuals,
businesses, communities, governments and/or NGOs
across the Pacific, to build community and national
resilience through disaster risk reduction measures.
Three community organisations received recognition
in the inaugural awards, the Solomon Islands Office
of Caritas Australia, the Foundation of the Peoples of
the South Pacific and the Pacific Disability Forum.
The 20
th
Regional Disaster Managers Meeting
(5-6
June), co-convened by SPC and the United Nations
Office for Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs
(UNOCHA), provided National Disaster Management
Offices the opportunity to consider recent
developments and to articulate specific capacity
building priorities in ‘disaster management’ (disaster
preparedness and response) for the medium term.
The meeting resulted in thorough discussions on
how countries can improve their respective disaster
preparedness strategies.
Support was gained for the Regional Steering
Committee for the ACP-EU/SPC Building Safety and
Resilience in the Pacific (BSRP) project to ensure
co-ordinated implementation at regional, national
and community levels. The meeting outcomes also
included intention to strengthen collaboration
and coordination for disaster preparedness and
response. Endorsement was obtained for the draft
DRM Competency Framework with request for
SPC to continue to work together with partners
and to assist countries in adapting the draft DRM
Competency Framework to suit the national context.
The Competency Framework, being developed by
SPC, will assist to more clearly define the skills,
qualifications and attributes necessary to produce
competent emergency management practitioners.
Lieutenant Colonel Inia Seruiratu, Fiji's Minister for Rural & Maritime
Development and National Disaster Management and Minister for
Agriculture, Fisheries & Forests and HE Thani Thongphakdi, Thai
Ambassador to the United Nations in Geneva