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Project Coordinator: Mr Lono Leneuoti
SIDS rely on small coastal aquifers for their water supply needs. These coastal aquifers are fragile thin freshwater lenses that float on the underlying denser seawater and are reliant on rainfall for recharge. These coastal aquifers are at higher risk of impact to water quality deterioration from threats including saltwater contamination from sea level rise, over abstraction, wave overtopping, loss of aquifer area through coastal erosion, and other impacts on water quality from inappropriate land-use activities. Climate change exacerbates these long-running threats to coastal aquifers through increased climate variability and climate extremes. The fragility of coastal fresh groundwater systems necessitates careful management and protection to ensure their long-term integrity and their role in climate change adaptation strategies and improved water security. The project aims at improving the understanding, use, management and protection of coastal aquifers towards enhanced water security, including in the context of a changing climate. More specifically it aims at 1) identifying the extent, threats and the development potential of groundwater resources, 2) increasing awareness of groundwater as a water security supply source, 3) providing options for improved access to groundwater and 4) and improving aquifer protection and management, within Pacific Small Island Developing States.
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Preparation of Third National Communication (TNC) under the UNFCCC
In relation to many SIDS, Tuvalu is extremely vulnerable to climate change and its impacts. Given that communities are very much aware of global warming and its damaging effects, they still continue to fight for their survival and future better livelihood. In every Conference of the Parties (COPs) and other Climate Change dialogues, Tuvalu continuously expressed a common phrase that “if you save Tuvalu, you save the world”. This is the Prime Minister’s impassioned phrasing challenging the parties to meet their obligations under the UNFCCC and its protocols. Ratifying the UNFCCC and its protocols including the Paris Agreement was part of Tuvalu obligation towards addressing climate change impacts.
Generally, Tuvalu signed and ratified the United Nation Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) on 8th June,1992 and has also ratified the Kyoto Protocol and the Paris Agreement. Having identifying detrimental environmental concerns such as coastal erosion, salt water intrusion and drought, it built efforts to develop its National Environmental Management Strategy (NEMS) in 1997, the National Adaptation Program of Action (NAPA) in 2007 and other new climate policies and strategies to ensure policy actions are effectively in place as well environmental and socioeconomic safeguards including gender are respectfully realized and implemented.
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Project Coordinator: Mr Sitia Maheu
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Project Coordinator: Mr Saamu Tui
Although climate change is cited as the most signifigant security threat to he south pacific, its likely effects on security and potential conflict are yet to be widely explored by the international an regional organisations present on the ground. Climate change in the pacific region has the potential for a myriad of cascading fragility and instability risks. These will affect men, women and youth differently, and vary across the region both according to timeframes under consideration and depending on the country context.
There are a range of critical climate fragility risks emerging in the Pacific Region that will require greater examination, monitoring and coordinated action by many stakeholders at the national, regional and international level to prevent potential irrevesible economic, social, cultural and environmental damage with a range of potential security implications and a direct impact on social cohesion. Most critical issues amongst these include:
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Project Coordinator: Alamoana Tofuola
Finance Assistance: Betty Fousaga
The Managing Water Scarcity through Strengthened Water Resources Management project respondsto MFAT’s Water Security Strategic Approach to address the climate change-related water securitychallenges faced by Pacific Island Countries. The Project is being implemented by the PacificCommunity (SPC) over the three-year period from July 2020 to June 2023, and.
builds upon the achievements, learnings, and enabling environments established through the MFAT-funded Strengthening Water Security of Vulnerable Island States (SWSVIS) project. This Project
was also implemented by SPC and from 2015 to 2019 supported a range of activities to strengthenthe availability, reliability and quality of drinking water in vulnerable and isolated communities inthe Cook Islands, Kiribati, the Marshall Islands, Tokelau and Tuvalu. The SWSVIS project workedacross multiple sectors within the participating countries to help develop and implement a suite ofpractical measures and tools that strengthened local capacity to anticipate, prepare for and respondto the impacts of drought. The new Water Scarcity Project represents a significant scaling up andrefocusing of the activities implemented under the SWSVIS project. It aims to provide support tospecific water-scarce communities to actively manage resources to improve resilience, in order that:• Communities have the infrastructure and capability required to access, collect and store water.• Communities understand, protect and maintain water resources and infrastructure; and• Communities are sustainably using water resources and managing risk.
Implementation of the Project is now commencing in each of the five atoll nations of the Cook Is-lands, Kiribati, the Marshall Islands, Tokelau and Tuvalu.
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An event to promote climate change awareness to the public, work of the department and current projects running. This will include capacity building to schools, youths and everyone on the capital on adaptationa and mitigation measures.
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Institutional strengthening of Tuvalu's NDA and Preparation of Country Programme - The Tuvalu Readiness-1 project will highly support mechanisms on strengthening the NDA’s capacity and building on that capacity to deliver concise and effective measures in addressing climate finance, enhancing engagement with GCF, building on national stakeholders and private sectors, women and vulnerable groups communication whilst engaging them in decision making and voicing their opinions to build a reflective Country Programme and strategic framework.
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Project Coordinator: Susan Tupulaga
Contact: susapaul@gmail.com
ISAAC project is a 3 year project commencing in 2017 and funded by USAID and jointly implemented by SPC, SPREP and PIFS covering 4 countries including Tuvalu, Fiji, Palau and Samoa.
The main focal areas of ISAAC project are awreness and capacity building, policy development, climate change adaptation divided across three main key result areas;
1. Intergrated Institutional frameworks and national capacity stregthened
2. Accessing Climate Finance
3. Regional cooperation and corrdination and stregthening
Some of the project's achievements include;
1. supporting the NIE accrediation process in providing assistance to develop tools under Ministry of Finance
2.Supporting review of Environmental Impact Assessment
3. Establishment of Environmental Social Safeguard (ESS) as one of the requirement for NIE Accreditation process
4. Development of Payout policy and methodology for the Tuvalu Survival Fund
5. Supporting 20 students to persue Project Management IV Courses
6. Supporting the development of the Climate Change Web Portal
7. Contribute and participate in Awareness Activities
8. Establish Data and Information for vulnerable sectors (in progress)
9. Awareness activities on the tools/policy and regulation developed (for 2019)
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Coordinator: Kilateli Epu
Contact: kilateli@gmail.com
Phone #: 00688- 20517
Partnerhsip House,
Deparment of Climate Change and Disaster
The Buildind Safety and Resilience in the Pacific project (BSRP) is commited to reducing the impacts of disaster and climate change on Pacific Island countries and communities. This is done through stregthening the region's ability to respond to existing and emerginf challenges caused by hazards and climate change and is being achieved through targeted disaster resilience strategies and climate adaptation work.
To help overcome these challenges the Building Safety and Resilience in the Pacific project is helping find practical ways to support countries to prepare for, respond to and recover from disaster. This is done through the implementation of Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) strategies led by the countries involved in the project. These DRR strategies help assess disaster and hazard risks whilst putting measures in place to protect lives, assets and livelihoods.
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TIVA Data Analyst: Faatupu Simeti
Contact : 4tupu.s@gmail.com
00688 - 20517
Partnership House
Department of Climate Change and Disaster
Climate change has always been a threat to all countries in the world. Tuvalu a country that consists of nine small atolls with a population of approximately twelve thousand people is mostly affected by climate change. The Tuvalu Integrated Vulnerability Assessment (TIVA) is a collection of existing secondary data and also views from the people to help carry out a vulnerability assessment. Tuvalu has signed a memorandum of understanding between its Government and the International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) regarding support for the Tuvalu Integrated Vulnerability Assessment (TIVA) by the National Adaptation Plan Global Network (NAP GB). The collection of data from all the Islands of Tuvalu started in the beginning of this year 2018 and its still in the process of developing a TIVA Data base to improve IVA-data consistency, storage and presentation.
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Project Coordinator : Mr. Tomu Hauma
Since 2015, under the sponsorship of the New Zealand Government, the Strengtening Water Security of Vulnerable Island States Project (shortened for the Water Security Project) started off in five island countries - Cook Islands, Kiribati, Republic of the Marshall Islands (RMI), Tokelau and Tuvalu. The project was particularly ignited by the 2011 drought epidemic in Tuvalu and thus developed to not only address impacts of drought in the five island countries but to also at least support and resolve other hazards on drinking water and its supplies. Such support has to be address through the project team efforts and the existing network of water related institutions on each of the five island countries. Thus both the Government and Civil Societies have their own part to play in the mix of addressing water problems in each of the five implementing countries. The project is regionally coordinated by the SPC, and implemented at the national level by each of the five island countries.
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Early this year the Climate Champion for Tuvalu former Prime Minister Rt. Hon Enele Sosene Sopoaga committed to provide an opportunity for young people of Tuvalu to raise their voice, speak out what they need heir future to be. A Climate Change Youth Forum was convened by the Department of Climate Change and Disaster under his able leadership in Funafuti. As an outcome youths of Tuvalu produced the Funafuti Declaration on Youth and Climate Change.An opportunity was again provided at the Climate Change Sautalaga that was convened as part of the PIF Leaders Meeting in Funafuti to allow young people of Tuvalu to present their Declaration to Forum Leaders. The message was received with great applause and respect from Leaders.More interestingly, excessive efforts were made to take young people of Tuvalu to United Nations in New York to speak at the Youth Summit that was convened as part of the UN Secretary General's Climate Action Summit. The youths of Tuvalu proudly presented their stories, seek global support and more importantly shere their commitments to address climate change and its adverse effects.
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CLIMATE CHANGE SAUTALAGA OVERVIEW
The climate Change Sautalaga will start off on Monday the 12th of August, 2019, and will be held Rt. Hon. Dr. Sir Tomasi Puapua Convention Center
The aim of the Sautalaga is to have an exchange of views on critical climate change issues in the region. We will be drawing on international and national experts to give presentations on key issues and propose a way forward on each item. It is anticipated that a Declaration will be developed based on the presentation and discussions. This Declaration will be on behalf of Pacific Small Island Developing States so that their views can be properly presented in an outcome document.
The Prime Minister of Tuvalu will present the Declaration coming from the Sautalaga to the Forum Leaders for their consideration
The issues that will be discussed in the Sautalaga as well as the expected outcomes include;
The Science of Climate Change
The impacts of Climate Change on health
The Role of Climate Finance on building resilience
Implications of Climate Change on the security of Pacific Island Countries
Considering the governance of emerging altering technologies
Expectations of COP25
Preparing for the UN Secretary General’s Climate Action Summit
NDC and Low Carbon Development: Implications for SIDS
Renewable Energy: Accessibility for SIDS
Sustainable Sea Transport for inter-island service
Investing in Renewable Energy and Energy Efficient
Impacts of Climate Change on Tuna Fisheries
Implications of sea level rise on maritime boundaries
Ocean-Climate Nexus
Outcomes of the Tuvalu Climate Change Youth Forum
Possible outcomes for the declaration will be finalized by the Pacific Small Island Developing States.
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The Tuvalu Government requires employees as well as members of Parliament, the public service, consultants, vendors, contractors, donors, and/or any other parties with a financial or operational relationship with the Government of Tuvalu to observe high standards of business and personal ethics in the conduct of their duties and responsibilities. As employees and representatives of the Tuvalu Government, we must practice honesty and integrity in fulfilling our responsibilities and comply with all applicable laws and regulations.