ACP-EU Building Safety and Resilience in the Pacific
About the Program
The ACP-EU Building Safety and Resilience in the Pacific (BSRP) is an initiative of the African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) Group of States, funded by the European Union (EU) to strengthen the capacity of Pacific Island Countries to address existing and emerging challenges with regards to the risks posed by natural hazards and related disasters, while maximising synergies between Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) strategies and Climate Change Adaptation (CCA).
Launched in 2013 for a period of 4.5 years, the €20 million programme is implemented by the Secretariat of the Pacific Community (SPC), through its Applied Geoscience and Technology Division (SOPAC) and it is overseen by a Steering Committeecomposed of the 15 participant National Disaster Management Offices (NDMO) managers, and attended by the ACP Secretariat and the European Union as observers.
Beneficiary countries of the funding are Cook Islands, Fiji, Federated States of Micronesia, Kiribati, Marshall Islands, Nauru, Niue Palau, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Timor-Leste, Tonga, Tuvalu and Vanuatu.
What We Do
The expected results of the program are:
- Response plans, Early Warning Systems, emergency and evacuation centres, access to safe drinking water to mitigate against drought;
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Joint National Action Plans (JNAP), integrating DRM and CCA into national and sector strategies, planning and budgetary processes;
- Awareness building on risks and risk exposure by providing hazard and risk information through regional and local databases;
- Addressing gaps in baseline scientific, technical, social and economic understanding of hazard impact and underlying risks;
- Strengthened regional capacity for DRM policy through a single regional policy framework.