| Project Detail |
The development objective of the Pacific Resilience Program Project for Samoa is to strengthen early warning, resilient investments, and financial protection of Samoa. The project comprises of four components. The first component, strengthening early warning and preparedness (estimated cost including contingencies objective is to increase the resilience of the participating phase one countries and the Pacific region as a whole to natural hazards such as cyclones, coastal and riverine flooding, volcanic eruptions, tsunamis, and earthquakes by improving the quality of forecasting and warning services as well as disaster preparedness. The second component, risk reduction and resilient investments (estimated cost including contingencies will finance entry level resilient investments, such as the retrofitting of public buildings (for example, schools, health centers) to meet internationally accepted building standards for resilience (including appropriate consideration of gender requirements). The third component, disaster risk financing objective is to strengthen the financial resilience of the participating Pacific Island countries (PICs) to disaster events by enabling them to secure access to immediate liquidity post disaster for low, medium, and high risk events. The fourth component, project and program management objective is to provide efficient and effective implementation support to the projects in each country, including staff, operating costs, monitoring and evaluation, and the cost of audits. |
