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Pacific Resilience Partnership (PRP)

Pacific Community (SPC), Pacific Islands Forum (PIFS), Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP) (
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    Collective impact envisioned:
    The Pacific Resilience Partnership (PRP), endorsed by the Pacific Islands Leaders in 2017, is the vehicle that adds value to the Framework for a Resilient Development in the Pacific (FRDP) and intends to bring about a paradigm shift in the way business of resilience building in the Pacific is conducted. It brings together a diverse and broad range of stakeholders under a single umbrella mechanism in a coordinated and cohesive manner in support of identified regional and national priority needs and also as a means to elevate Pacific perspectives at the global level.

    Implementation of the Project/Activity

    By endorsing the PRP Charter, all partners agree to the PRP core missions, values and principles, such as:

    1. Driving Inclusivity – engaging and ensuring effective participation of all stakeholder groups to enable more people, more interests to be actively engaged and have ownership of the resilience agenda underpinned by a human rights based approach, prioritising the needs and respecting the rights of the most vulnerable including but not limited to women, persons with disabilities, children, youth and older persons; and integrating gender considerations and aim for a gender balance in all levels of the PRP.
    2. Strengthening Genuine and Durable Partnership – the focus of the partnership is to ensure collaboration, cooperation and coordination through the establishment of relationships based on mutual respect and shared responsibility and accountability by all stakeholders at all levels of implementation.
    3. Facilitating Integrity and Quality – a commitment to the highest levels of integrity and quality in how resilience action is taken forward at sub national including community, national, sub-regional and regional levels through information and sharing, facilitating engagement and interaction that is genuine and lasting, enabling shared responsibility and ownership with and across all stakeholders, and on a commitment to continuous learning and improvement.
    4. Fostering Leadership – Leadership is called for at every level of decision making to promote accountability and transparency, encourage and engender appropriate, innovative implementation for resilience building at national and regional levels.

    Arrangements for Capacity-Building and Technology Transfer

    For capacity-building and technology transfer, the PRP has leveraged on the biennial Pacific Resilience Meeting. The PRM has been held 3 times since 2019 and is the regional platform that has brought together stakeholders for knowledge sharing and learning, promoting innovative practices. Attendance to and outreach of the PRM has increased demonstrating its value in bringing together different stakeholders from around and outside of the Pacific region.

    In addition, nine Technical Working Groups have been established and progressed diverse issues covering Disaster Risk Finance, Human Mobility, Risk Governance and Resilient Development, Localisation, Information Knowledge Management, Pacific Market Based Mechanisms to address Climate Change, Water Security, Resilient Infrastructure and Resilient Housing, and Gender and Social Inclusion.

    Also worth noting that support to countries for Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) via a Framework that was developed to assess alignment of the FRDP 3 goals with National Development Plans, national Climate Change and Disaster Risk Management policies.

    Finally, the Pacific Resilience Standards operationalizes the FRDP Guiding Principles and was developed as a tool to ensure the quality, effectiveness and integrity of resilience building by providing ‘good practice essentials’ and ‘progress criteria’ that can demonstrate stakeholder achievement of the Guiding Principles.

    Coordination mechanisms

    The PRP has a governance mechanism that embraces the principles of inclusion through equal representation and equal voices of all stakeholders. It reports directly to the Pacific Islands Forum Leaders, so it has the potential to influence political decisions at the highest level.

    The Partnership has a Taskforce that is innovative in its composition, with equal representation of civil society and the private sector, government, regional agencies and partners. It provides guidance and reports back to Leaders informed through the biennial Pacific Resilience Meeting, work from the Technical Working Groups.

    The biennial Pacific Resilience Meeting is the platform bringing together resilience practitioners across sectors and stakeholders to share and learn from each other, showcase and inspire innovation and higher standards of performance in how the Framework for a Resilient Development in the Pacific (FRDP) is being implemented in the region and highlight potential areas for collaboration.

    The Technical Working Groups are established to focus on relevant key or emerging priorities drawing from the Taskforce and/or PRM outcomes with membership open to all and are result focused and time bound. They also serve as a regional expert platform for networking and coordination on specific identified priorities with partners collaborating through the TWGs on issues that are aligned with their mandates and/or work.

    The Support Unit is the glue that brings the different governance mechanisms together. it is made up of regional technical inter-governmental organizations provides technical support and advise to the PRP and the operationalisation of the Framework for a Resilient Development in the Pacific.

    Goal 11

    Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable

    Goal 11

    11.1

    By 2030, ensure access for all to adequate, safe and affordable housing and basic services and upgrade slums

    11.1.1

    Proportion of urban population living in slums, informal settlements or inadequate housing

    11.2

    By 2030, provide access to safe, affordable, accessible and sustainable transport systems for all, improving road safety, notably by expanding public transport, with special attention to the needs of those in vulnerable situations, women, children, persons with disabilities and older persons
    11.2.1

    Proportion of population that has convenient access to public transport, by sex, age and persons with disabilities

    11.3

    By 2030, enhance inclusive and sustainable urbanization and capacity for participatory, integrated and sustainable human settlement planning and management in all countries
    11.3.1

    Ratio of land consumption rate to population growth rate

    11.3.2

    Proportion of cities with a direct participation structure of civil society in urban planning and management that operate regularly and democratically

    11.4

    Strengthen efforts to protect and safeguard the world’s cultural and natural heritage

    11.4.1

    Total per capita expenditure on the preservation, protection and conservation of all cultural and natural heritage, by source of funding (public, private), type of heritage (cultural, natural) and level of government (national, regional, and local/municipal)

    11.5

    By 2030, significantly reduce the number of deaths and the number of people affected and substantially decrease the direct economic losses relative to global gross domestic product caused by disasters, including water-related disasters, with a focus on protecting the poor and people in vulnerable situations

    11.5.1

    Number of deaths, missing persons and directly affected persons attributed to disasters per 100,000 population

    11.5.2

    Direct economic loss attributed to disasters in relation to global domestic product (GDP)

    11.5.3

    (a) Damage to critical infrastructure and (b) number of disruptions to basic services, attributed to disasters

    11.6

    By 2030, reduce the adverse per capita environmental impact of cities, including by paying special attention to air quality and municipal and other waste management

    11.6.1

    Proportion of municipal solid waste collected and managed in controlled facilities out of total municipal waste generated, by cities

    11.6.2

    Annual mean levels of fine particulate matter (e.g. PM2.5 and PM10) in cities (population weighted)

    11.7

    By 2030, provide universal access to safe, inclusive and accessible, green and public spaces, in particular for women and children, older persons and persons with disabilities
    11.7.1

    Average share of the built-up area of cities that is open space for public use for all, by sex, age and persons with disabilities

    11.7.2

    Proportion of persons victim of non-sexual or sexual harassment, by sex, age, disability status and place of occurrence, in the previous 12 months

    11.a

    Support positive economic, social and environmental links between urban, peri-urban and rural areas by strengthening national and regional development planning

    11.a.1

    Number of countries that have national urban policies or regional development plans that (a) respond to population dynamics; (b) ensure balanced territorial development; and (c) increase local fiscal space

    11.b

    By 2020, substantially increase the number of cities and human settlements adopting and implementing integrated policies and plans towards inclusion, resource efficiency, mitigation and adaptation to climate change, resilience to disasters, and develop and implement, in line with the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030, holistic disaster risk management at all levels

    11.b.1

    Number of countries that adopt and implement national disaster risk reduction strategies in line with the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015–2030

    11.b.2

    Proportion of local governments that adopt and implement local disaster risk reduction strategies in line with national disaster risk reduction strategies

    11.c

    Support least developed countries, including through financial and technical assistance, in building sustainable and resilient buildings utilizing local materials

    Goal 13

    Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts

    Goal 13

    13.1

    Strengthen resilience and adaptive capacity to climate-related hazards and natural disasters in all countries

    13.1.1

    Number of deaths, missing persons and directly affected persons attributed to disasters per 100,000 population

    13.1.2

    Number of countries that adopt and implement national disaster risk reduction strategies in line with the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015–2030

    13.1.3

    Proportion of local governments that adopt and implement local disaster risk reduction strategies in line with national disaster risk reduction strategies

    13.2

    Integrate climate change measures into national policies, strategies and planning

    13.2.1

    Number of countries with nationally determined contributions, long-term strategies, national adaptation plans and adaptation communications, as reported to the secretariat of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change

    13.2.2

    Total greenhouse gas emissions per year

    13.3

    Improve education, awareness-raising and human and institutional capacity on climate change mitigation, adaptation, impact reduction and early warning

    13.3.1

    Extent to which (i) global citizenship education and (ii) education for sustainable development are mainstreamed in (a) national education policies; (b) curricula; (c) teacher education; and (d) student assessment

    13.a

    Implement the commitment undertaken by developed-country parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change to a goal of mobilizing jointly $100 billion annually by 2020 from all sources to address the needs of developing countries in the context of meaningful mitigation actions and transparency on implementation and fully operationalize the Green Climate Fund through its capitalization as soon as possible

    13.a.1

    Amounts provided and mobilized in United States dollars per year in relation to the continued existing collective mobilization goal of the $100 billion commitment through to 2025

    13.b

    Promote mechanisms for raising capacity for effective climate change-related planning and management in least developed countries and small island developing States, including focusing on women, youth and local and marginalized communities


     

    13.b.1

    Number of least developed countries and small island developing States with nationally determined contributions, long-term strategies, national adaptation plans and adaptation communications, as reported to the secretariat of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change

    Goal 17

    Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development

    Goal 17

    17.1

    Strengthen domestic resource mobilization, including through international support to developing countries, to improve domestic capacity for tax and other revenue collection

    17.1.1
    Total government revenue as a proportion of GDP, by source
    17.1.2
    Proportion of domestic budget funded by domestic taxes

    17.2

    Developed countries to implement fully their official development assistance commitments, including the commitment by many developed countries to achieve the target of 0.7 per cent of ODA/GNI to developing countries and 0.15 to 0.20 per cent of ODA/GNI to least developed countries; ODA providers are encouraged to consider setting a target to provide at least 0.20 per cent of ODA/GNI to least developed countries

    17.2.1
    Net official development assistance, total and to least developed countries, as a proportion of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) Development Assistance Committee donors’ gross national income (GNI)

    17.3

    Mobilize additional financial resources for developing countries from multiple sources

    17.3.1

    Additional financial resources mobilized for developing countries from multiple sources 

    17.3.2
    Volume of remittances (in United States dollars) as a proportion of total GDP

    17.4

    Assist developing countries in attaining long-term debt sustainability through coordinated policies aimed at fostering debt financing, debt relief and debt restructuring, as appropriate, and address the external debt of highly indebted poor countries to reduce debt distress

    17.4.1
    Debt service as a proportion of exports of goods and services

    17.5

    Adopt and implement investment promotion regimes for least developed countries

    17.5.1

    Number of countries that adopt and implement investment promotion regimes for developing countries, including the least developed countries

    17.6

    Enhance North-South, South-South and triangular regional and international cooperation on and access to science, technology and innovation and enhance knowledge sharing on mutually agreed terms, including through improved coordination among existing mechanisms, in particular at the United Nations level, and through a global technology facilitation mechanism

    17.6.1

     Fixed broadband subscriptions per 100 inhabitants, by speed

    17.7

    Promote the development, transfer, dissemination and diffusion of environmentally sound technologies to developing countries on favourable terms, including on concessional and preferential terms, as mutually agreed

    17.7.1

    Total amount of funding for developing countries to promote the development, transfer, dissemination and diffusion of environmentally sound technologies

    17.8

    Fully operationalize the technology bank and science, technology and innovation capacity-building mechanism for least developed countries by 2017 and enhance the use of enabling technology, in particular information and communications technology

    17.8.1
    Proportion of individuals using the Internet

    17.9

    Enhance international support for implementing effective and targeted capacity-building in developing countries to support national plans to implement all the Sustainable Development Goals, including through North-South, South-South and triangular cooperation

    17.9.1

    Dollar value of financial and technical assistance (including through North-South, South‑South and triangular cooperation) committed to developing countries

    17.10

    Promote a universal, rules-based, open, non-discriminatory and equitable multilateral trading system under the World Trade Organization, including through the conclusion of negotiations under its Doha Development Agenda

    17.10.1
    Worldwide weighted tariff-average

    17.11

    Significantly increase the exports of developing countries, in particular with a view to doubling the least developed countries’ share of global exports by 2020

    17.11.1

    Developing countries’ and least developed countries’ share of global exports

    17.12

    Realize timely implementation of duty-free and quota-free market access on a lasting basis for all least developed countries, consistent with World Trade Organization decisions, including by ensuring that preferential rules of origin applicable to imports from least developed countries are transparent and simple, and contribute to facilitating market access

    17.12.1

    Weighted average tariffs faced by developing countries, least developed countries and small island developing States

    17.13

    Enhance global macroeconomic stability, including through policy coordination and policy coherence

    17.13.1
    Macroeconomic Dashboard

    17.14

    Enhance policy coherence for sustainable development

    17.14.1
    Number of countries with mechanisms in place to enhance policy coherence of sustainable development

    17.15

    Respect each country’s policy space and leadership to establish and implement policies for poverty eradication and sustainable development 

    17.15.1
    Extent of use of country-owned results frameworks and planning tools by providers of development cooperation

    17.16

    Enhance the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development, complemented by multi-stakeholder partnerships that mobilize and share knowledge, expertise, technology and financial resources, to support the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals in all countries, in particular developing countries

    17.16.1

    Number of countries reporting progress in multi-stakeholder development effectiveness monitoring frameworks that support the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals

    17.17

    Encourage and promote effective public, public-private and civil society partnerships, building on the experience and resourcing strategies of partnerships 

    17.17.1

    Amount in United States dollars committed to public-private partnerships for infrastructure

    17.18

    By 2020, enhance capacity-building support to developing countries, including for least developed countries and small island developing States, to increase significantly the availability of high-quality, timely and reliable data disaggregated by income, gender, age, race, ethnicity, migratory status, disability, geographic location and other characteristics relevant in national contexts

    17.18.1

    Statistical capacity indicators

    17.18.2
    Number of countries that have national statistical legislation that complies with the Fundamental Principles of Official Statistics
    17.18.3

    Number of countries with a national statistical plan that is fully funded and under implementation, by source of funding

    17.19

    By 2030, build on existing initiatives to develop measurements of progress on sustainable development that complement gross domestic product, and support statistical capacity-building in developing countries

    17.19.1
    Dollar value of all resources made available to strengthen statistical capacity in developing countries
    17.19.2

    Proportion of countries that (a) have conducted at least one population and housing census in the last 10 years; and (b) have achieved 100 per cent birth registration and 80 per cent death registration

    Name Description
    17.14 Enhance policy coherence for sustainable development
    Organise the Biennial Pacific Resilience Meeting
    Establish Technical Working Groups with clear deliverables
    Increase Coherence of interventions for CC/DRM in the Pacific
    Increase coordination at regional, national and local levels
    Staff / Technical expertise
    Regional intergovernmental organisations allocate staff to support the coordination of the PRP mechanisms
    In-kind contribution
    Civil servants and experts contribute their time and experience on the Taskforce, Technical Working Groups and Pacific Resilience Meetings.s
    Financing (in USD)
    Financing comes from various sources through donors, projects and programmes, to leverage in-kind contributions of civil servants and experts around the Pacific..
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    02 January 2017 (start date)
    31 December 2030 (date of completion)
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    Pacific Community (SPC), Pacific Islands Forum (PIFS), Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP)
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    1. Climate Change
    2. Sustainable Energy
    3. Disaster Risk Reduction
    4. Means of Implementation, including Partnerships
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    Anais, Advisor for Disaster and Community Resilience