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South
Pacific Applied Geoscience Commission (SOPAC)
SOPAC is the South Pacific Applied Geoscience Commission,
an inter-governmental, regional organization based in Suva
and dedicated to providing services to promote sustainable
development in 20 Pacific countries. SOPAC’s work
focuses on providing assistance to its member countries
in three key programme areas: Ocean and Islands, Community
Lifelines and Community Risk. SOPAC is cooperating closely
with the UN/ISDR in advancing further disaster risk reduction
throughout the he Pacific region along the lines of the
Hyogo Framework for Action and the recently adopted Pacific
Framework for Action 2005-2015 on Disaster rRisk Reduction
and Management entitled “An Investment for Sustainable
Development in Pacific Island Countries - Building the
Resilience of Nations and Communities to Disasters “.
For more information, please visit www.sopac.org
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