Climate Change Training for Samoa's Tautua Program

On the 14^th of November 2024, the Australia Pacific Climate Partnership (APCP) delivered the climate change training for the Tautua Program in Samoa through in-person delivery by Maria Sapatu-Kennar.

Australia’s Tautua Human Development Program prioritizes five interconnected pillars of human development: Education, Health, Gender Equality, Disability, and Social Inclusion (GEDSI), and Social Protection. The program is helping build the human development foundations required for Samoa’s health security, economic recovery, and continued stability. 

The program team became familiar with and refreshed on climate change causes, impacts, adaptation, mitigation, and what Samoa is putting into action to address it in terms of health, education, and gender inclusion. Other topics shared in the training were the observed changes due to climate change and climate change projections for Samoa and the Pacific.   

There were also discussions on key climate change policies at the global, regional, and national levels.  The Tautua team actively participated and contributed to the discussions by sharing their experiences of Samoa’s strategies for tackling climate change in terms of health, education, and gender.  They were thankful to APCP for the training opportunity as Cheri Robinson-Moors, Team leader remarks “It was a wonderful and thought-provoking session”.