ActionAid Vanuatu

ActionAid Vanuatu is an independent ActionAid Federation entity based in Port Vila. AAV is empowering Ni-Vanuatu in times of crisis to become galvanising community leaders.

ActionAid Vanuatu is supporting local women to become galvanising and powerful community leaders, particularly in times of crisis. Local women have the knowledge and the leverage to lead their communities. We’re equipping them with the tools and resources to build their solidarity, sisterhood and strength.

In 2015, Vanuatu was struck by Cyclone Pam. This led to the implementation of two programs across Vanuatu, the Women Wetem Weta (Women’s Weather Watch) and the Women I Tok Tok Tugeta (WITTT).

PROJECT SUMMARY: WOMEN I TOK TOK TUGETA

 The Women’s Weather Watch (WWW) was formed in 2015 as an early warning and response system for climate-related disasters. Local women took part in a series of trainings where they learnt to read weather maps and create weather warning messages in less than 160 characters.

PROJECT SUMMARY WOMEN’S WEATHER WATCH

Group photo of ActionAid Vanuatu team February 2021

Read about the Vanuatu: Women-Led Climate Resilience and Adaptation project on the dedicated program page.

We continue to empower local women in Vanuatu with the knowledge and networks to claim their place as galvanising community leaders.

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Our work in Vanuatu

Tropical Cyclone Pam 2015

After Cyclone Pam, ActionAid set up an office in Vanuatu. Working with and being led by women across Vanuatu, they office is led entirely by Ni-Vanuatu women.

Women I Tok Tok Tugeta (WITTT)

The WITTT program brings together women in a safe space to talk about their experiences, share their stories and collectively come up with creative solutions.

Women Wetem Weta (WWW)

The WWW program brought together women from across Vanuatu to learn more about and meteorology. They put these skills to use, using a national digital network to communicate weather messages to fellow women.

COVID-19 Response

When COVID-19 threatened to spread through Vanuatu, the WITTT network mobilised to keep their communities safe. They performed health and hygiene demonstrations in Islands across Vanuatu.

Tropical Cyclone Harold 2020

In the aftermath of tropical cyclone Harold, Ni-Vanuatu women mobilised to support their sisters across the country; conducting community led assessments and distributing 1,000 dignity kits to women in need.

Meet the women we work with

Flora Vano

Flora is a Ni-Vanuatu woman and is leading the ActionAid Vanuatu team in emergency response. Flora is an experienced humanitarian, empowering the women in her community to claim their agency, self-determination and power.

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Leiwia Yavions

Leiwia is a WITTT mobiliser on the island of Tanna. She believes that WITTT can be an avenue for change, from the community level, to national and regional, and provide a space for the voices of women and girls in her community, and around Vanuatu, to be heard.

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Melia David

This is Melia, a Women I Tok Tok Tugeta (WITTT) mobiliser and a community leader on the island of Tanna. She is leading her community through multiple crises including supporting her sisters in the cyclone Harold response.

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