will prioritise identification and strengthening of the capacity of local civil society actors. (c) exploring possible AGREE DFAT agrees to HPD is working with Pacific portal of options for Pacific crisis explore options for PICs to develop the regional response how the Australian portal government Government could of regional capabilities encourage and government anticipated to support increased capabilities and come into Pacific-to-Pacific assets. This will effect by 2018 crisis response identify deployable (noting this capabilities. DFAT capabilities across the work is driven notes the need for region, and under PIC country-specific opportunities for leadership with approaches due to further collaboration. DFAT support) significant DFAT funding to the differences in PIC World Health capacity to both Organisation (WHO) is deploy and host supporting PICs to such teams. verify national emergency medical teams, which will Note: The Pacific strengthen PIC portal of regional capacity to both government deploy and host such capabilities is teams. driven under PIC leadership with DFAT is piloting a DFAT support. scholarship project to support Pacific humanitarian officer participation in a leadership course through the Centre for Humanitarian Leadership at Deakin University in Melbourne. HPD and PAD will discuss any funding requests for regional projects to Pacific response capacity with NZ MFAT, aiming to build on existing
will prioritise identification and strengthening of the capacity of local civil society actors. (c) exploring possible options for Pacific crisis response AGREE DFAT agrees to explore options for how the Australian Government could encourage and support increased Pacific-to-Pacific crisis response capabilities. DFAT notes the need for country-specific approaches due to significant differences in PIC capacity to both deploy and host such teams. Note: The Pacific portal of regional government capabilities is driven under PIC leadership with DFAT support. HPD is working with PICs to develop the portal of regional government capabilities and assets. This will identify deployable capabilities across the region, and opportunities for further collaboration. DFAT funding to the World Health Organisation (WHO) is supporting PICs to verify national emergency medical teams, which will strengthen PIC capacity to both deploy and host such teams. DFAT is piloting a scholarship project to support Pacific humanitarian officer participation in a leadership course through the Centre for Humanitarian Leadership at Deakin University in Melbourne. HPD and PAD will discuss any funding requests for regional projects to Pacific response capacity with NZ MFAT, aiming to build on existing Pacific portal of regional government capabilities anticipated to come into effect by 2018 (noting this work is driven under PIC leadership with DFAT support)
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