About

The Pacific Young Women Responding to Climate Change project will provide Pacific young women with training and opportunities to access climate change science services; and to engage in the local and national disaster and climate change policy conversation.

ActionAid is working in partnership with the Shifting the Power Coalition (StPC) on this project to support women to lead emergency responses and claim power in times of crisis. The StPC is responding to the increase in climate change induced disasters across the Pacific; supporting them with the training, technology and networks to act on climate change.

The project supported by the Australian Government’s  Australia Pacific Climate Partnership (ACPC).

Impact

The project will build on intergenerational and cultural knowledge to grow young women’s leadership on climate change. It will support 150 young women from six Pacific Island countries; Fiji, Papua New Guinea (PNG), Samoa, Tonga, Vanuatu and Australia.

Where:

Pacific Islands

Our Partners:

Shifting the Power Coalition

When:

September 2020 - June 2022

This project is supported by The Australian Government and the Austrian Embassy in Canberra

Supported by the  Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and the Australian Government’s  Australia Pacific Climate Partnership (ACPC )will providing young women across the Pacific with the resources to lead local responses to climate change.

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