Increasing The Resilience Of Informal Urban Settlements In Fiji That Are Highly Vulnerable To Climate Change And Disaster Risks

Recognizing the cumulative challenges facing the residents of informal settlements in towns and cities across Fiji, the project aims to increase the resilience of informal urban settlements in Fiji that are highly vulnerable to climate change and disaster risks. To do so, the project combines horizontally and vertically interrelated resilience strengthening of institutions, communities and physical, natural and social assets and ecosystems. By taking a comprehensive approach of city-level institutional capacity strengthening including support for community level actions for resilience building that respond to current and future needs, all actions will benefit the inhabitants of the informal settlements while aiming to sustain the identified concrete adaptation measures. Therefore, with a strong mix of soft and hard interventions, it is anticipated that local resilience including at the household, community and informal settlements level is sustainably strengthened. Moreover, the specific needs of women, indigenous people, people with disabilities and youths will be considered at all stages of the project. This is achieved through engaging representatives of these vulnerable groups in community and stakeholder consultations with a community-based approach and people's process – where community groups are formed and sustained throughout all stages of the project and through which communities participate in project implementation: in planning and executing activities and monitoring.