Peer Learning Session 1: Innovations in Pacific Disaster Risk Knowledge

This session was the first of three technical sessions to explore risk knowledge in the Pacific in more detail. Government departments and regional experts summarized the current availability of risk information in the Pacific. They presented examples of how risk insights have been generated via risk assessments and what skills are needed and highlighted ongoing/near-future projects expected to add to current knowledge.

Peer Learning Session 2: Applying Risk Insights in Resilient Development and Adaptation Planning

This session highlighted previous event knowledge of what risk information is available in the region, and look at how those insights are applied in practice – in planning upstream development and related multi-sectoral budgeting, adaptation planning, recovery planning, and investment in resilient infrastructure and systems.

Peer Learning Session 3: Collaborating to Develop Risk Information Including Community Perspectives

This session discussed a better-shared understanding of the value of collaborating to develop risk information to improve the relevance of insights being developed by learning from local expert perspectives. This understanding covered the importance of in-country experts engaging and inclusion of perspectives from local communities and civil society groups, on hazards, assets, and vulnerability in risk assessment projects to improve the relevance and impact of risk information for decision-making.

Peer Learning Sessions: Innovations in Pacific Disaster Risk Knowledge

This session was the first of three technical sessions to explore risk knowledge in the Pacific in more detail. We will hear from government departments and regional experts who summarized the current availability of risk information in the Pacific. They presented examples of how risk insights have been generated via risk assessments and what skills are needed and highlighted ongoing/near-future projects expected to add to current knowledge.

Annemieke Nijhof

Nijhof has extensive experience in the worlds of both government and business. As the Director-General of Water at the Ministry of Transport, Public Works and Water Management (now Infrastructure and Water Management), she was responsible for water policy in the Netherlands. She then turned her hand to a business career as the CEO of consultancy and engineering firm Tauw. Presently, she is figurehead Top Sector Water & Maritiem and chair of the Netherlands Water Partnership (NWP).