ALM UNDP

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The Climate Change and the Southern Hemisphere Tropical Cyclones Project is funded by
Australian Department of Climate Change and implemented in all Pacific Developing Member Countries (PDMCs) during 2007 and 2008. The project is designed to conduct further analysis of the climatology of tropical cyclone variability and to develop a tropical cyclone forecasting scheme, linking with activities in the Pacific Islands Climate Predictions Project (PI-CPP).

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Project Description: The aim of this project is to strengthen climate prediction in Pacific Island countries. It aims to expand the use of climate predictions by Pacific Island countries both in National Meteorological Services and by industries/agencies which use climate information including farmers, tourism, water resource managers and health authorities. The project is scheduled to end in 2009.

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Project Description: The Pacific Meteorological Services Needs Assessment Programme (PMSNAP), implemented in 2000 and 2001, was designed to identify the assistance required by the Meteorological Services of 20 PDMCs, including needs for capacity building to meet growing public demand for the provision of improved weather and climate services and products; The central goal of the PMSNAP project is to support continued strengthening of the capability of National Meteorological Services in the Pacific region to meet growing public demand for improved weather and climate

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PROJECT DESCRIPTION: With AusAID funding, Kiribati, Vanuatu, Solomon Islands, Fiji, Papua-New Guinea are being assisted to develop an inventory of digitized and un-digitized climate records, to recommend action for the preservation of the records, and where appropriate, to enact immediate action to secure important paper climate records at risk of loss; since then similar activities have also been undertaken in the Cook Islands, Niue, Tonga and Tuvalu to also ensure that their climate data is secure, accessible, and in a form capable of being utilized in

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A multi-donor funded feasibility project for all Pacific Development Member Countries, conducted in 2004 and 2005; the planned project was to increase the accessibility of weather, climate and hydro-meteorological related information through the use of radio, including information to assist remote and resource poor populations for their day-to-day resource decisions and preparations related to natural hazards

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This project aims to development the capacity of government officials to be able to carry out other projects that will help eradicate land-induced poverty especially in rural development agendas. It also aims to enhance the National Action Plan and complete medium-term National Investment Plan and its coordinated Mobilization Plan.

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The overall project goal is to improve the livelihoods (health, economic development and protection of ecosystem integrity and associated biodiversity) of participating Pacific Island Countries through the sustainable integrated management of their water resources. Fourteen Pacific Island Countries working with SOPAC have successfully submitted the Project Identification Form (PIF) to the Global Environment Facility for the Sustainable Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM) project.

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Water resources available in small island developing states are vulnerable to climate extremes and population pressures. Pacific island countries have limited alternate options and only relatively small and finite water resources available to meet increasing water demands. Knowledge on how rivers, aquifers and rainwater harvesting respond to increased demands and climate variability is crucial to ensuring sustainable and productive water resources.

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TeleFood projects around the world have been making the difference in the lives of small-scale farming communities and given hope to numerous children and women who did not have the needed livelihood supplies. They have been designed to provide families and communities the tools necessary to increase the quantity and variety of their food production. Projects categories range from crop production to fish and animal production, including support to school garden initiatives and apiculture. The budget of each project does not exceed US$ 10 000 and a duration of 12 months.