ArtTEK Tanna: Nainé Resilient Societies Center consists of two separate programs with differing objectives and implementation strategies. Program A: TEK & Tech Youth Champions is the subject of this brief. It encompasses youth outreach and community training that brings outside experts to conduct ongoing training and workshops in Climate Change Adaptation. Central to this training are renewable energy systems operations and maintenance paired with sustainable forestry of rapidly-‐renewing building and fuel stocks. These include cash crops or incentivized agro-‐forestry that mitigate forest degradation (like sandalwood, Project brief: ArtTEK Tanna National Advisory Board on Climate Change and Disaster Risk Reduction 2 kauri, canarium and namamau) with additional focus placed on large-‐diameter bamboo and coconut. This focus on fusing economic benefits with climate change adaptation and mitigation strategies is reinforced through knowledge transfer between local communities and visiting experts. Such experts bring news of global best practices in eco literacy and environmental conservation which integrate with local kastom to strengthen climate change mitigation practices at the village level in Vanuatu. Program B: TEK & Tech Resilience Innovators focuses on increasing resilience to climate change worldwide through integration of indigenous management strategies. It will be implemented by ArtTEK Tanna’s New York-‐based Directorial Board & Team through an Administrative Agreement between the governing board and this project’s Community Co-‐Founders in Middle Bush, Tanna.
The Pacific Risk Resilience programme (PRRP) will focus on strengthening governance mechanisms for Disaster Risk Management (DRM) and Climate Change Adaptation (CCA) at the sub-national and local levels. The goal of the programme is: to strengthen the resilience of Pacific island communities to disasters and climate change related risk.
Pacific Risk Resilience Programme is design to supporting and partnership with existing stakeholder’s engagements / activities with a focus on strengthening governance mechanism for Disaster Risk Management and Climate change adaptation at all levels of decision making.
The resources provided by this project will strengthen the NAB and assist the Government to conduct thorough hazard and risk assessment in the urban areas and use the data to inform national land use planning policies including the design of a tsunami warning system for both urban areas.
The government of Vanuatu, with support from donors and humanitarian actors, have begun to develop a significant focus on disaster preparedness and response. Within the National Disaster Management Organization two leading staff members interface regularly with Ministry of Education providing guidance and taking ownership of programs underway in cooperation with Save the Children and other stakeholders. Although climate-smart DRR education is underway, and while some initial efforts have been made in school disaster planning, it is in a very embryonic stage.
A focus for this project is the 'mentoring of champions' within the education sector. This will result in increased capacity within the Ministry of Education and schools to support replication of the approach into other provinces. The action contributes to the global campaign for safe schools by supporting a framework for school disaster management at the national, sub-national, and local levels, by identifying the key messages to support household participation in school safety, and by proving tools that can be used at the national level to convey and practice school safety action planning by all school communities throughout the country.