Regional learning focused on traditional knowledge and gender integration into climate systems
They are part of a joint regional peer to peer learning on integrating traditional knowledge and gender into climate warning systems.
About 20 regional representatives from the various meteorological departments are on the island to learn from Niue on how they have managed to integrate traditional knowledge into the work of the Niue Meteorological Service.
They are part of the joint regional peer to peer learning on integrating traditional knowledge and gender into climate warning systems.
United Nations Environment Programme’s CIS-Pac Program Coordinator-Elisapeta Kerslake said the gathering is about listening and learning from participants’ experiences, challenges, achievements, solutions, and lessons learned on traditional knowledge and gender in climate.
Minister for Natural Resources -Hon. Mona Ainu’u officially opened the event last Friday at the Millennium hall. Also present was New Zealand High Commissioner to Niue-HE. Mark Gibb and Australia’s Acting High Commissioner to Niue-Hannah Kent-Spark.
In her address, Climate and Oceans Support Programme in the Pacific (COSPPac 3)Traditional Knowledge Officer-Siosinamele Lui said Niue has become a good example of integration of traditional knowledge, climate science and engaging youths in the community.
The Women of the Ekelesia Kerisiano Niue also demonstrated the benefits of what the PIA Niue Project has been for them and their families.
The regional representatives visited the Niue Met Service and the Hakupu Girls Brigade farming site over the weekend with the workshop continuing this week.
The event has been jointly organised by the Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP) through the Climate and Oceans Support Programme in the Pacific (COSPPac) Phase 3 project and the United Nations Environment Programme’s (UNEP) Enhancing Climate Information and Knowledge Services for Resilience in 5 Islands Countries of the Pacific (CIS-Pac 5).
