Papua New Guinea
The village of Himau is located on the coast of New Ireland Province among an intricate system of freshwater streams that flow from an underground spring in highlands close to the community. This system of…
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Each community participating in the Climate Resilient Islands programme was asked to discuss and agree on an image that symbolises the community’s resilience. This symbol is closely linked within the Community Resilience Profiles to resilience…
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Climate Resilient Islands communities were asked to describe their most important values and assets, and their vulnerabilities and risks, to contribute to their Community Resilience Profiles. These ranged from material to natural, as well as…
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When designing the Climate Resilient Islands (CRI) Programme Live & Learn wanted to develop a process communities could use to plan resilience actions that sat within the flow of complexity (without falling into the trap…
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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. To achieve this,…
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The Climate Resilient Islands Programme is one of the work packages contributing to the Ecosystems Intervention Area within MFAT’s Climate Change Programme. This was established in 2019 as a multi-faceted response to Pacific requests for…
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Marai village in Papua New Guinea contains about 300 people who live in three hamlets that are situated behind vast mangrove forests. The Climate Resilient Islands programme is helping to document their knowledge about this…
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In the Climate Resilient Islands programme, communities are incorporating traditional knowledge of ecosystems management into community resilience plans. The ancestors in communities often practised sustainable methods of food growing and gathering, methods that now become…
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