“By reducing the vulnerability of Vanuatu’s vital sectors and communities now to current climate-related risks should place the country in a better position to cope with future climate change and to build sustainable ni-Vanuatu communities. The ideal approach to adaptation in Vanuatu is a pro-active, no-regrets approach which encompasses measures and strategies which can be implemented in the present with the aim of reducing vulnerability in the future.

Climate is always changing, and on a variety of time scales. Rarely uniform, climate is inherently
variable and often punctuated by extreme events. Being prepared for the consequences of climate
change, variability and extremes is a strategic policy option, once chosen by the Republic of Vanuatu.
Adaptation to climate change, variability and extremes represents an important challenge for the
sustainable development of society. As understanding of the climate system continues to deepen

The Republic of Vanuatu ratified the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) on 09 March 1993, and submitted its Initial National Communication (INC) to the UNFCCC on 30 October 1999. Following the preparation of its INC, Vanuatu has initiated efforts to create an institutional set-up that seeks to mainstream climate change issues into the national legal frameworks. Moreover, its INC provides compelling evidence that, by global standards, Vanuatu is one of the nations most vulnerable to climate change and sea-level rise.

The CVCA methodology provides a framework for analyzing vulnerability and capacity to adapt to climate change at the

community level. Recognizing that local actors must drive their own future, the CVCA prioritises local knowledge on climate

risks and adaptation strategies in the data gathering and analysis process.

This is a practical manual to carry out participatory monitoring, evaluation, reflection and learning in community level climate change adaptation programs. It includes guidelines in the use of participatory tools and methodologies.

Global climate change and the significant impacts it can have
on people’s lives are a major challenge for developing countries.
Heavy floods, severe droughts and other weather extremes are
examples of those impacts which call for building up capacity
to adapt to the impacts of climate change.
While climate change will affect all regions of the world, people
in developing countries are the most vulnerable. That is
why adaptation is a priority for German development cooperation,
with many programmes already addressing the challenge

There is no doubt that our climate is changing. This will
pose huge challenges to nations, organisations, enterprises,
cities, communities and individuals. Developing
countries will suffer most from the adverse consequences
of climate change, and some highly vulnerable regions
and people are already being affected.
There is increasing agreement that if temperatures rise
by no more than 2 °C the earth’s integrity can be preserved
and many of the potentially grave consequences
of climate change could be avoided. This threshold is

The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate
Change (UNFCCC) secretariat has produced this book to
highlight the concerns and needs of developing countries
in adapting to the effects of climate change. This book
outlines the impact of climate change in four developing
country regions: Africa, Asia, Latin America and small
island developing States; the vulnerability of these regions
to future climate change; current adaptation plans,
strategies and actions; and future adaptation options
and needs.
 

Vanuatu, an archipelago consisting of 13 principal islands and 60 secondary islands, spreads
from the 13th to the 21st parallel south and covers an area of 12,050 km² in the Pacific Ocean.
The capital, Port-Vila, located on Efate island, is 530 km north-east of Nouméa, New
Caledonia.
 

This Report
1. We were fielded by AusAID (PB: 26 May to 14 June ‘06) and NZAID (BM:
6 to 26 June ‘06) to initiate dialogue with the Government of Vanuatu (GoV) over
potential areas of support to economic growth from productive sector3 priorities
established in the Government of Vanuatu’s Priorities and Action Agenda 2006 -
2015
(the ‘PAA’). Terms of Reference are at Attachment 8.
2. Accompanied by DESP, we met with government departments and
officials, private sector operators and their industry bodies in the agriculture,

As support to the policies and strategies contained in the Overarching Productive Sector Policy
document, this situation analysis discusses agriculture’s contribution to broad–based growth in the
Vanuatu economy, analyses constraints to growth and identifies key strategies that would enable
further productive sector growth. In addition the analysis is widened to cover the important socioeconomic
and political context of increasing growth.
The analysis also recognises that many of determinants of agricultural productivity fall outside of

Presentation made by Jude Tabi on likely impacts of climate change on the forestry sector, and possible adaptations.

Set of posters that guves awareness of climate change and its impacts and adaptations.

Flyer giving summary of technical report on climate science:

The impact of natural disasters and their poten- tial to increase as a result of climate change have received greater attention in recent years. With an onset of strategies, action plans and frameworks
have been put in place internationally. At a regional level, the strategies address this growing concern about the risks of disasters and the uncertain hazards from climate change. In 2005, the Hyogo Framework for Action (HFA) 2005–2015 identified the following 5 priorities for action:

Terms of Reference for the National Advisory Board on Climate Change and Disaster Risk Reduction (NAB). Version: 16 Dec 2012

GCCA–Vanuatu consists of two separate components with differing objectives and implementation modes. Component A – the subject of this brief – covers the enhancement of policy development on and institutional strengthening of climate change in Vanuatu. Component B focuses on increasing resilience to climate change and natural hazards and will be implemented by the World Bank through an Administrative Agreement between the European Commission and World Bank (see separate brief on the IRCCNH project).

The activities to be implemented under Component A are: