🌀 IMSPARK: Pacific Ready to Measure Risk Before It Strikes🌀

🌀 Imagine... Pacific Ready to Measure Risk Before It Strikes🌀

💡 Imagined Endstate:

A region where Pacific Island communities use real-time data to drive preparedness, ensure accountability, and reduce disaster impacts—where local leaders confidently monitor and adapt to risk using global tools rooted in their island realities.

📚 Source: 

United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction. (2025). Tutorials for monitoring the Sendai Framework. Link. 

💥 What’s the Big Deal:

In the face of intensifying climate events, Pacific Island Small Island Developing States (PI-SIDS) cannot afford to rely on outdated systems or fragmented responses🌪️. The United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction has launched accessible tutorial videos to help countries track and report progress against the Sendai Framework’s seven targets and 38 indicators📊. These are more than just training tools—they are capacity multipliers. For PI-SIDS, which face high vulnerability and often limited technical resources, the ability to use the Sendai Framework Monitor (SFM) builds vital local expertise and strengthens disaster governance🧭.

The tutorials make it possible for small island governments, civil society groups, and even frontline responders to engage in disaster monitoring and risk-informed planning🔍. By improving awareness and transparency, the region gains more than data—it gains trust, resilience, and a voice in global risk dialogue. This is how we turn knowledge into power and preparedness into protection.

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