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PACRES aims to enhance regional and national adaptation and mitigation solutions to address climate change challenges faced by 15 Pacific ACP countries

A project which exists to improve regional national adaptation and mitigation solutions to climate change in 15 Pacific countries has provided critical assistance to the tiny island of Tuvalu to battle climate crisis.

PACRES aims to improve regional, national adaptation and mitigation solutions to climate change concerns faces in 15 Pacific ACP countries.

Pacific Islands Forum Secretariat (PIFS) through the Pacific Resilience Partnership (PRP) awarded a range of youth-led initiatives that build climate change resilience involving 11 groups across the region in March 2022 and supported by the government of Australia. The youth-led efforts and activities contributed to the effective implementation of the Framework for Resilient Development in the Pacific (FRDP) covering a wide range of sectors including preserving traditional agricultural practices and so forth....

The contribution of PACRES to Karama will enhance the already existing knowledge in the community in terms of mangrove rehabilitation and provide alternative options for water and food security and enable disaster preparedness for the community. PACRES will also fund additional Vulnerability Needs Assessments for a number of other coastal communities in Gulf Province in 2022-23

The 2021 Pacific Resilience Meeting (PRM) was held between 6 and 8 July 2021, with a pre-PRM youth forum on 5 July. The meeting was both virtual with national hubs with PACRES the main funding partner

PACRES continues to support scaling up the Technical Vocational Education and Training (TVET) sector in the Pacific by strengthening the delivery of the Resilience Qualification by the TVET institutions. One of the approaches employed is the provision of tools and equipment to institutions offering these qualifications. This includes computers, GPS and soil sampling kits by way of examples.