Papua New Guinea Red Cross Society, alongside IFRC Disaster Law, is actively engaging in the review of Papua New Guinea’s Disaster Management Act. Together, we are advocating for the development of robust, inclusive and climate-smart disaster legislation to protect communities from increasingly frequent and severe disasters. In 2021, we facilitated a peer-to-peer exchange between Papua New Guinea and the Fiji National Disaster Management Office to share lessons learned from the Fiji disaster law review.
Papua New Guinea is also one of 16 countries included in a recent study of legal preparedness for regional and international disaster assistance in the Pacific. It was also one of the countries analysed in Law, Disasters and Public Health Emergencies in the Pacific, looks at the intersection of public health emergencies and disaster risk management systems in the Pacific, in light of the COVID-19 pandemic.
