Pacific Resilience Partnership (PRP)
Pacific Community (SPC), Pacific Islands Forum (PIFS), Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP)
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Intergovernmental organization
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Description
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.
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.
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.
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.
SDGS & Targets
Goal 11
Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable
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
11.2.1
Proportion of population that has convenient access to public transport, by sex, age and persons with disabilities
11.3
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
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
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
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
17.1.2
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
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
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
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
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
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
17.14
Enhance policy coherence for sustainable development
17.14.1
17.15
Respect each country’s policy space and leadership to establish and implement policies for poverty eradication and sustainable development
17.15.1
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
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
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
SDG 14 targets covered
| Name | Description |
|---|---|
| 17.14 | Enhance policy coherence for sustainable development |
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SIDS regions
- Pacific
Samoa pathway priority area
- Climate Change
- Sustainable Energy
- Disaster Risk Reduction
- Means of Implementation, including Partnerships
Contact Information
Anais, Advisor for Disaster and Community Resilience