Pacific Disaster Management Capacity

Anglican Missions is working with Anglican partners and churches across the Pacific to strengthen the Anglican Church’s capacity to prepare for and respond to disasters by developing a tiered Disaster Management framework and toolkit. These resources will utilise and build on materials including the Anglican Alliance’s Partners in Resilience and Response (PiRR), the Core Humanitarian Standards (CHS), and community-based tools such as Community Integrated Vulnerability Assessment (CIVA)  

In the Pacific, the project will be coordinated through the Oceania Regional Advisory Council (ORAC), which draws expertise from development practitioners from Papua New Guinea, the Solomon Islands, Vanuatu, and Polynesia. It will work alongside partners including the Anglican Board of Mission (Australia), Melanesian Missions UK, USPG, and Anglican Alliance staff.  

The project will be informed by expertise and lived experience of Māori, whose indigenous understanding of community, whakapapa, and relationship with creation continues to shape Anglican responses to crisis and care. In Aotearoa, the project will also work with groups including Te Pīhopatanga o Aotearoa (TPOA).   

These projects will contribute to the Anglican Alliance’s global disaster management capacity goals.  Partner with us to support Anglican Disaster Preparedness in the Pacific through your donation to our Disasters and Resilience Programme.