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This video highlights the Pacific impact stories from fellows who joined the second phase of the Australia Awards Fellowship on Advancing Climate, Health, & Equity Outcomes through Local Action in the Indo-Pacific in March 2024 in Apia, Samoa.

Reaffirming that climate change and disasters, including nuclear contamination, have a disproportionate impact on women and girls in all their diversity, particularly women and girls with disabilities and women and girls living in rural, remote and maritime areas and that we will not meet the 1.5 degrees celsius goal, or any other goal, without their full contribution; para 5, Revitalised Pacific Leaders Gender Equality Declaration (PLGED) 2023

While world leaders met in Egypt in 2022 for the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCC) Conference of the parties (COP 27) and danced around the need for critical global action on climate change, ni-Vanuatu (Vanuatu citizens) were dealing with its realities. Continuing sea level rises, more intense and frequent cyclones, flooding and landslides are regular occurrences in Vanuatu.

The community resilience partnership program (CRPP) is intended to help countries and communities in Asia and the Pacific scale up investments in climate adaptations, especially investments as the community level that explicitly target nexus between climate change, poverty, and gender. In doing so, the CRPP aims to support countries to meet their commitments to the Paris Agreement, the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risks Reduction and the Sustainable Development Goals,