Climate Resilient Islands
Vanuatu
Vanuatu has been part of Climate Resilient Islands since the programme began in 2021.
Working with 20 communities across the provinces of Shefa, Sanma, Torba, Malampa and Tafea, CRI covers a diverse array of ecosystems. Ecosystems are at the heart of most economic and cultural activity in Vanuatu, though they face significant threats and challenges. Climate Resilient Islands is focused on working with the Indigenous knowledge embedded in partner communities to inform nature-based solutions to these challenges.
Climate Resilient Islands is a New Zealand Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade initiative, implemented by Live & Learn with funding from the New Zealand Government.
Community Resilience Profile & Planning
The Climate Resilient Islands programme is working with 65 rural communities in Fiji, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Tonga, Tuvalu and Vanuatu to strengthen community resilience to climate change through nature-based approaches.
The programme uses a complex range of approaches and concepts, combining a diversity of activities communities can use to explore the interdependence of people and ecosystems, understand ecological complexity and develop nature-based plans for adaptation and resilience.
The CRI Toolkit details the approaches helping create climate resilience across CRI partner communities.
Throughout the Climate Resilient Islands programme, we think about how three different things are combined when working with climate resilience: absorptive capacity, adaptive capacity, transformational capacity.
These are symbolised in the programme by the coconut palm, crab and butterfly. These three capacities relate to the levels of challenges communities face and the changes required to meet these challenges throughout all six partner countries in the CRI programme.
Climate Resilient Islands
Climate Resilient Islands is working with rural communities in Fiji, Tonga, Vanuatu, Tuvalu, Solomon Islands and PNG to strengthen community resilience to the impacts of climate change through nature-based approaches.
Learn more about how the programme is working in other partner countries through the pages below.
Climate Resilient Islands is a New Zealand Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade initiative, implemented by Live & Learn with funding from the New Zealand Government.