BRISBANE, AUSTRALIA ¨C The Pacific Community (SPC) and the United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) this week brought together logistics and warehouse officers from six Pacific national disaster management offices (NDMOs) for the first Humanitarian Warehouse Exchange under the Pacific Humanitarian Warehousing Program (PHWP), strengthening the skills needed to move relief supplies quickly when disasters strike.
APIA, SAMOA ¨C The Samoa Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries (MAF), in partnership with the United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ), co-hosted a national validation workshop to present and discuss findings from Samoa¡¯s first Cost and Affordability Analysis of Diets.
APIA: The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) in partnership with Samoa¡¯s Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries and the University of South Pacific conducted a two-day workshop on critical market assessments that will enable data driven decision-making for disaster response policies in Samoa.
Suva/Apia ¨C A planeload of medical equipment and supplies touched down in Apia on Monday to bolster Samoa¡¯s response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The goods were provided by the World Health Organization (WHO) for the Ministry of Health of Samoa and transported by the United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) through its Pacific Humanitarian Air Service, with funding support from the European Union (EU).
SUVA, Fiji: The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) and The University of the South Pacific (USP) have joined forces to strengthen local market monitoring capacities in Fiji and Samoa.
