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A new Waverider buoy was deployed in Palau through an international collaboration including the Pacific Islands Ocean Observing System based at UH Mānoa.
Enhancing capacity for preparedness and response to emergencies Format The Ambassador of Japan in Palau, H.E. Karasawa Akira, President of Palau, H.E.Surangel Whipps, Jr., Country Project Coordinator UNDP, Aleyda Valde and Division of Fire and Secure of Palau staff in front of the fire vehicles © UNDP Koror, Palau – An elliptical tanker, and a rescue fire truck are set to enhance the Palau Government’s capacity for preparedness and response to emergencies. The UN Development Programme (UNDP) Pacific Office in Fiji, through the Japan funded Enhancing Disaster and Climate Resilience (EDCR)...
Palau upholds gender equality, social inclusion in disaster risk management Format Palau has taken concrete action to leave no one behind in its disaster risk management efforts. Forty-two (42) staff (21 women and 21 men) from the public sector and civil society organisations who engage in national and community disaster risk management in Palau received training to integrate a gender, age, disability and cultural perspective in policies and practices of disaster risk management. The two-day workshop was opened in the capital Koror on Wednesday 10 February 2021 by Palau’s National Emergency...