INVOLVE COMMUNITIES AND THE MEDIA IN COMMUNICATING CLIMATE INFORMATION Early lessons gained from a regional project to strengthen the link between National Meteorological Service and the communities indicate the need to communicate weather information and how it impacts the population in a simple and timely manner. Part of the strategy is to allow people at the community level to take ownership of the information and empower their people to make choices that will protect them in any extreme weather event. The four year FINPAC project administered by Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP) and the Government of Finland hopes to build the capacity of National Met Services in 14 Pacific Island Countries to be able to effectively communicate climate information to communities. Apart from empowering the Met Services and the communities, the project is also looking strengthening their relationship with the media as conduit of climate information to the people. Co-ordinator of FINPAC at SPREP, Christina Gale said lessons from Cook Islands and Tuvalu, the first two countries to implement the project suggests that National Met Services need to link their work to action taken by communities. Through this partnership, communities can develop disaster resilience plans, said Gale ... bit.ly/W3LJ7B #SPREP #PacificEnvironment #islands2014
Posted on: Tue, 02 Sep 2014 01:30:38 +0000
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