The Pacific regional training on economic impact assessment

Assessing damage caused by natural disasters in the Pacific - a prerequisite for recovery and rehabilitation efforts - is a major challenge. To support Pacific island countries to assess the economic impact of disasters, SOPAC, ESCAP and UNISDR are organising a training workshop on the economic assessment of disasters in the Pacific.

This is a course dedicated to participants of eight selected PICs (Vanuatu, Samoa, Fiji, Cook Islands, Tonga, Solomon Islands, Palau and Papua New Guinea) only and a pilot for possible future training work.

Any notification of this course is not an invitation. The purpose of the training will be to increase awareness of the economic dimensions to support disaster mainstreaming in national planning, expose Pacific island agencies to an internationally recognized framework to promote consistent valuation of disasters, enable agencies to share detailed examples and experiences of valuation in recent years and consider ways forward. The training will be provided by the representatives of SOPAC, ESCAP, UNISDR, UNECLAC and the IUCN.