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The project approach is to assist the nine countries design and implement practical on-the-ground climate change adaptation projects in conjunction with mainstreaming climate change into line ministries and national development plans, thereby helping countries move from an ad hoc project-by-project approach towards a programmatic approach underpinning an entire sector.

The Global Climate Change Alliance Plus (GCCA+) Scaling up Pacific Adaptation (SUPA) places people in the nine smaller Pacific Island countries and Fiji at the centre of climate change adaptation efforts as the project seeks to strengthen the sectors responsible for providing water, food, health, marine resources and coastal protection.

This report details a ten month scoping study conducted to assess the relative vulnerability of rural livelihoods across Pacific Island Countries (PICs) to climate change. The study focuses on East Timor (Timor-Leste) and 15 PICs (Federated States of Micronesia (FSM), Kiribati, Marshall Islands, Palau, Fiji, Nauru, Solomon Islands, Papua New Guinea, Vanuatu, Cook Islands, Niue, Samoa, Tokelau, Tonga, Tuvalu) (Fig. 1). This 7-page executive summary has been provided at the request of AusAID to offer an extended overview of the key issues and findings of this study. Further details are provided in the body of the report.