Government Posts
Luisa Uai Taunga
TONGA
Climate Change and Disaster Risk Management Programme Officer
National Emergency Management Office – Ha’apai
Luisa’s role includes supporting the integration of climate, environment and disaster risk and disaster recovery into planning and budgeting processes, policies, needs assessment and monitoring and evaluation frameworks of the Ministry in Ha’apai
Inoke Taufa
TONGA
Climate Change and Disaster Risk Management Programme Officer
National Emergency Management Office – Vava’u
Inoke’s role includes supporting the integration of climate, environment and disaster risk and disaster recovery into planning and budgeting processes, policies, needs assessment and monitoring and evaluation frameworks of the Ministry in Vava’u.
Elizabeth Baker
TONGA
Chief Economist
Ministry of Finance and Planning
Elizabeth is responsible for providing support for the integration of climate, environment and disaster risk into the planning and budgeting process by sharing guidance, briefings and tools.
Elisaia Ika
TONGA
Manager TASP Implementation and Coordination Unit
Ministry of Agriculture and Food, Forests and Fisheries
Responsible for coordinating the implementation of the Tonga Agriculture Strategic Plan and ensuring that risk is integrated into all development plans
Katarina Nabola
FIJI
Climate Change and Disaster Risk Management Senior Agriculture Officer
Ministry of Agriculture
Katarina provides support for the integration of climate, environment and disaster risk into the Ministry’s (i) economic, planning and stats projects (ii) research division and (iii) extension divisions.
Jiuta Waqavonovono
FIJI
Senior Climate Change and Disaster Risk Management Officer (North)
Ministry of Rural and Maritime Development and National Disaster Management
Jiuta ensures the negotiation, design and implementation of climate change and disaster risk resilience considerations and strategies in selected priority policy advocacy and capacity development interventions for climate change and disaster risk management at divisional level in the North.
George Dregaso
FIJI
Senior Climate Change and Disaster Risk Management Programme Officer (West)
Ministry of Rural and Maritime Development and National Disaster Management
George ensures the negotiation, design and implementation of climate change and disaster risk resilience considerations and strategies in selected priority policy advocacy and capacity development interventions for climate change and disaster risk management at divisional level in the West.
Ravulo Naulumatua
FIJI
Climate Change and Disaster Risk Management Programme Officer
Ministry of Women Children and Poverty Alleviation
Ravulo ensures the negotiation, design and implementation of climate change and disaster risk resilience considerations and strategies in selected priority policy advocacy and capacity development interventions for climate change and disaster risk management at national level
Rothina Ilo Noka
VANUATU
Gender and Protection Coordinator
Ministry of Justice and Communication
Her role within the Ministry is to ensure that Gender and Social Inclusion considerations are integrated into policy advocacy and capacity development support. She also applies this work to national and local level climate change adaptation and disaster risk management mainstreaming.
Joshua Mael
VANUATU
Coordinator – Risk Resilience Unit
Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock, Forestry, Fisheries and Biosecurity
Joshua’s role was to support integration of climate and disaster risk management into the Minitry’s policy, strategies, planning and budgeting processes. He is also responsible for integrating risk into sector, provincial and project level monitoring and evaluation.
Anna Kalpokas Bule
VANUATU
Project Development Officer
National Advisory Board Secretariat
Her role within the NAB Secretariat was coordinating strategic governance and policy implementation associated with national, regional and international climate change and disaster risk reduction.
Wycliff Junior Bakeo
VANUATU
Senior Climate Change and Disaster Risk Management Sector Analyst
Department of Strategic Policy Planning and Aid Coordination
Wycliff works to integrate disaster and climate change risk management into sector policies, strategies and plans. This includes the development of toolkits for integrating risks into project development planning and budgeting.
Patrick Reoka
SOLOMON ISLANDS
Risk Resilience Development Officer
Temotu Provincial Government
Patrick is responsible for providing support to the integration of climate, environment and disaster risk into the Provincial Government
Sipuru Rove
SOLOMON ISLANDS
Risk Resilient Coordinator
Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock Development
Sipuru is responsible for supporting the integration of climate, environment and disaster risk management into the Ministry’s policies, strategies, planning and budgeting processes.
Private Sector Posts
Miriama Brown
REGIONAL / FIJI
Resilient Programme Officer
Pacific Islands Private Sector Organisation
Miriama is responsible for implementing activities related to the Pacific Regional Private Sector Disaster and Resilience Network and the Fiji Business Disaster Resilience Council.
Vacant
VANUATU
Resilient Programme Officer
Vanuatu Chamber of Commerce and Trade
The incumbent is responsible for implementing activities related to a proposed Vanuatu Business Disaster Resilience Council.
Regional Hub Posts
Moortaza Jiwanji
PRRP Regional Programme Manager
Moortaza is responsible for leading and setting the strategic direction of the programme. He has more than a decade of experience in providing policy advice to developing countries. His work has largely focused on mainstreaming risk in to development planning, policy formulation and advice, training and capacity building on risk management issues, programme management and resource mobilization for projects in the Caribbean, Africa, Asia and the Pacific.
Doris Susau
LLEE Regional Programme Manager
Doris manages the Pacific portfolio for Live and Learn Environmental Education. Her role is critical to linking community led development to sub-national and national level planning and implementation. Doris brings extensive experience from understanding community led initiatives and her strategic direction for the LLEE team.
Aminisitai Delaisainiai
PRRP Programme Officer
Amini is responsible for effective management of programme cycle and work planning. This includes providing leadership on operational management and capacity building. Amini has years of experiance working in corporate UNDP and extensive private sector experiance.
Karalaini Savu
PRRP Programme Assistant
Kara has over a decade of experience in the UN system managing administration of programme deliveries. In PRRP, Kara is responsible for ensuring effective administration and logistical support for the team.
Rebecca McNaught
PRRP Technical Advisor – CCDRM
Rebecca works with PRRP as a Sub-national Resilient Development Advisor. She has extensive experience on Climate Change and Disaster Risk Management in Pacific. Her contribution is significant in the area of community led development work.
Nicola Glendining
PRRP Technical Advisor – CCDRM
Nicola is an advisor to the PRRP Programme on Sector wide and National level work on climate change risk integration. More specifically she has significantly contributed to building PRRP work in the Agriculture and Private Sector field across the programme
Sara Selby
PRRP Technical Advisor – CCDRM
Sara provides guidence and advise across the programme. She is mainly responsible for the montoring and evaluation of the programme. Sara has extensive experience in Climate Change and Disaster Risk Management globally.
Lilika Fusimalohi
PRRP Technical Advisor – Risk Informed Budgeting
Lilika is an advisor for PRRP on work relating to the integration of gender sensitive responses to climate change within budget process in the programme countries. Lilika comes into the team with extensive experience in government budget and planning reforms.
National Posts
Manoa Malani
PRRP National Programme Manager – Fiji
Manoa has more than a decade of experience in providing policy advice and governance work in Fiji. As the PRRP Fiji National Officer, he provides guidance and support to local national and sub national stakeholders in the implementation of the Fiji programme.
Vacant
PRRP National Programme Manager Solomon Islands
Malcolm Dalesa
PRRP National Programme Manager – Vanuatu
Malcolm manages a country team tasked with rolling out activities across a number of key development agencies in Vanuatu. His work has largely focused on mainstreaming risk in to development planning, policy formulation and advice on climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction
Pesi Ilangana
PRRP Programme Coordinator – Tonga
Pesi is currently the Programme Coordinator for the Pacific Risk Resilience Programme (PRRP) for our Tonga Office. She is responsible for the effective implementation and management of Pacific Risk Resilience For Tonga. Pesi has extensive experience private sector management before joining PRRP.