Vanuatu Climate Adaptation Network (VCAN)

Dear VCAN friends and colleagues

 

Live & Learn has kindly agreed to host the second meeting of Vanuatu Climate Adaptation Network (VCAN) on:

 

When: Friday, 1st February 2013 from 9am – 12pm  

Where: Live & Learn Vanuatu (Erakor House, Erakor Bridge/Korman Stadium)

 

All civil society organisations working on – or interested in – climate change adaptation policy and implementation are invited to participate.

 

The Agenda so far:

 

1 Network TOR

Shirley has compiled your ideas from our last meeting into a draft TOR for the network (attached). We will take this as a starting point to refine the scope, role, and activities of our network. Everything is still up for discussion – we want the network to be as useful to all of its members and ultimately beneficial to the communities we support.  

 

2 Nominate Vanuatu Climate Adaptation Network (VCAN) representative to the NAB

Membership of the NAB includes NGO representation from the VHT and VCAN. We will need to nominate VCAN’s representative. The representative will commit to presenting agreed network inputs at NAB meetings and report back to the network after each meeting

 

3 VCAN Input into National Climate Change and Disaster Risk Reduction Policy and Action Plan

The Government of Vanuatu is in the early stages of developing  a national policy and action plan on climate change and DRR and is interested in ideas from our network. We’ll be discussing how the national policy could benefit the communities we work with and how we could support the policy development process. (Initial concept note attached).

 

4 Any other business

Your announcements, opportunities, updates, etc

 

 

Please find attached for your information:

·         Draft Network TOR

·         Initial Concept Note - National Climate Change and Disaster Risk Reduction Policy and Action Plan (please note that the schedule is no longer current)

·         Position Description for a Live & Learn Environmental Education Project Officer (REDD+) for you information. Apologies for cross-posting.

·         Call for personnel as part of the Plan/World Vision bid for the UNDP/AusAID Pacific Risk Resilience Programme

 

Looking forward to seeing you on the 1st of Feb. Please us me know if you are attending and forward this invite to others who might be interested.

 

 

Best,

Dan and Shirley

(on behalf of the Vanuatu Climate Adaptation Network)