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#PacificHealth | Our children are the future leaders of tomorrow but are we being responsible to ensure it’s a healthy generation? 🚫 Today is World No Tobacco Day, read more as Dr Berlin Kafoa shares more. 👉https://bit.ly/3yEqXn5

#PacificPeoples | How are adolescent girls specifically affected by tropical cyclones❔ This was the question Pacific Women Lead partner, CARE Vanuatu asked in a research being commissioned, focussing on this topic. #Gender equality portfolio manager for CARE in Vanuatu, Isabelle Charlie, believes the voices of adolescent girls deserve to be heard, especially during natural disasters. To read more about the story, visit: https://bit.ly/3R54e9Y #GirlsLead

#PacificHealth | 💊 The Pacific Physiotherapy and Rehabilitation Network #PPREN meeting wrapped up today with a major milestone - finalising a comprehensive workplan for 2025-2030, guided by the Pacific Rehabilitation and Assistive Technology Association #PRATA Meeting outcomes. Engaging in discussions with the PICTs highlighted their capacities, challenges, priorities & successes. Key recommendations will be presented at the Directors of Clinical Services meeting in August, paving the way for regional health progress. 🤝 Interplast Australia & New Zealand Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade

#PacificPeoples | Thank you to all Pacific People Advancing Change #PPAC participants for a successful Regional #DisabilityInclusion host exchange. 🌏 With representatives from Kosrae Special Parent Network #KSPN; My Child Speaks, FSM; Auki Urban Disability Community Alliance (AUDC), Solomon Islands; Blind and Visually Impaired People of Solomon Islands; Osnalmok Organisation for Persons with Disability; Vanuatu Disability Promotion & Advocacy Association (VDPA); Melino Moe Ofa Women’s Development Group, Tonga; Belau Class of 84 from Palau; Utwe Youth; Utwe Women Organisation; N1 Utwe; and Kosrae Women in Farming, from FSM. 👉 Participants will now apply the learnings from this exchange to strengthen the implementation of their #advocacy campaigns, and these learnings will also be captured in a ‘what works’ paper. 🤝Organised by SPC in collaboration with the Federated States of Micronesia (FSM) National Government and the Kosrae State Government, with support from USAID Pacific Islands through #PROJECTGovernance, and the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade through #PacificWomenLead at SPC. programme. #PacificStyleAdvocacy

𝗛𝗼‘𝗼𝘂𝗹𝘂 𝗟ā𝗵𝘂𝗶: 𝗥𝗲𝗴𝗲𝗻𝗲𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗢𝗰𝗲𝗮𝗻𝗶𝗮 is this year’s theme for the Festival of Pacific Arts and Culture #FestPAC13 that begins next week in Hawai’i. 👥 28 countries, more than 2300 delegates and 100,000 people are expected at #FestPAC13 to connect, engage, and practice indigenous Pacific knowledge and culture, with a focus on recovery and revitalisation. 🎥 SPC will be broadcasting Pacific Way nightly to the Pacific and ensuring access to live broadcasts through our social media platforms. Watch this space! #FestPAC13 👉 For more information, click on this link: https://lnkd.in/g2Skqwgv

#DEPacific | 🛰️ Join us on May 30 from 08:00 a.m. to 09:30 a.m. AST at #SIDS4 for Digital Earth Pacific’s side event - Navigating Climate Resilience in Small Island Developing States - to understand the #Pacific experience in harnessing Earth Observations (#EO) as a pivotal infrastructure for #SIDS in charting the course towards resilient prosperity. 🔹 Happening at the 4th International Conference on Small Island Developing States in Antigua and Barbuda. 🔹 Room 5. 🔹 This is an in-person event. 👉 More information: https://bit.ly/451kb6K

#PacificHealth | The #Pacific #Rehabilitation and Assistive Technology Association (#PRATA) meeting continued today in Nadi, #Fiji. The focus was on: 📋 Reviewing strategic priorities for disability and rehab services in the Asia-Pacific, 📈 Country updates on capacities, challenges and successes, ✍️ Finalising PRATA's draft work plan forward Agreeing on the next steps for regional collaboration. PRATA aims to ensure people with disabilities across the region can access quality rehab care and assistive technology locally and sustainably. Today's discussions highlighted the need for reliable data on disability prevalence and the rehab workforce to understand service needs. Improving access to these vital services allows those with disabilities to live independently within their communities. The meeting reinforces the commitment to creating an inclusive environment that empowers individuals with disabilities in the Asia-Pacific. 🤝 Interplast Australia & New Zealand Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade

#PacificPeoples 👥 | This week’s Pacific People Advancing Change #PPAC Regional Disability Inclusion host exchange is the opportunity to showcase Kosrae Special Parent Network #KSPN’s achievements to date, lessons learnt and best practice from their advocacy campaign around #DisabilityInclusion through legal reform. 👉 Thanks to #KSPN’s advocacy efforts, the Kosrae Disability Inclusion Act was enacted in December 2021. KSPN has since been supporting the implementation of the Kosrae Disability legislation. Their efforts have led to the establishment of the new Kosrae State Social Services division. The CSO Is now supporting the establishment of the Kosrae State Disability Taskforce, and the review of the state building code to align to CRPD and the Kosrae Disability Act. 🤝SPC has organised this event, in collaboration with the Federated States of Micronesia (FSM) National Government and the Kosrae State Government, with support from the USAID Pacific Islands through #PROJECTGovernance, and the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade through Pacific Women Lead at SPC. programme. #PacificStyleAdvocacy

#PacificHealth | The Pacific Anaesthetic Assistant Course (PAAC) currently underway in #Fiji seeks to address the critical need for skilled anaesthetic assistants in #PICTs by providing comprehensive training and fostering mentorships through collaborations. ✅ This training aims to enhance the quality and safety of anaesthesia services across the region and is being attended by anaesthetic assistants and nurses from intensive care units and operating theatres. 🤝 This training is facilitated by the New Zealand Society of Anaesthetists with funding support from the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade.

#PhotoContest 📸 | 📢 Photographers, this is the last chance to submit your best #climatechange, marine environment, #fisheries, or aquaculture pictures!🍃🐟🦐🤿 👉 The Pacific Community (SPC) has launched a photo contest with the theme of climate change, marine environments, fisheries, and/or aquaculture in the Pacific Islands region, and winning photos will be featured in the new SPC book 📖 about the vulnerability of Pacific Island fisheries and aquaculture to climate change. 📆⏰ 𝗗𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗲 for submissions: 𝟯𝟭 𝗠𝗮𝘆 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟰, midnight (Fiji Time) 📍🌏 The competition is open to residents of the 22 Pacific Island countries and territories, and Australia and New Zealand. ℹ️ For competition guidelines, please visit this page: https://bit.ly/3UfsFSY 💡 For more information on climate change and fisheries at SPC, please visit these links: https://www.spc.int/cces & https://fame.spc.int/ #ClimateAction #PacificFisheries