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Strengthening climate change awareness in Vanuatu is at the core of a one day training for national media and communications officers in Port Vila today. This comes a week before ...
Post Date: 06-Oct-2020
The Department of Climate Change (DoCC) and Vanuatu Meteorology & Geo-hazards Department (VMGD) have jointly conducted an awareness program within the remote communities of Northern and Southern most part of ...
Post Date: 04-Aug-2020
The National Disaster Management Office (NDMO) continues to distribute dry food rations and local food crops as food relief supplies to the Tropical Cyclone Harold affected islands this week. The ...
Post Date: 02-Jun-2020
The National Disaster Management Office (NDMO) has received donated relief supplies worth of 1.5 million vatu towards TC Harold from the Anglican Church of Melanesia (ACOM). Bishop James Tama, the ...
Post Date: 02-Jun-2020
The Bureau of the Conference of the Parties to the UNFCCC (United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change), with the UK and its Italian partners, agreed on 28 May ...
Post Date: 02-Jun-2020
The National Disaster Management Office (NDMO) has confirmed the repatriation of over 300 Vanuatu citizens stranded overseas due to COVID-19 pandemic will begin soon. The Minister responsible for Meteorology, Geological ...
Post Date: 26-May-2020
The National Disaster and Management Office (NDMO) advised that government authorities concern will implement the removal and banning of the import of OKI tin fish product from China. The OKI ...
Post Date: 26-May-2020
The Ministry of Climate Change (MoCC) through the Department of Environmental Protection and Conservation (DEPC) is continuously receiving concerns that people are killing birds and flying foxes in the islands ...
Post Date: 25-May-2020
The National Disaster Management Office (NDMO) and the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) are undertaking displacement tracking assessment in all affected islands to support the TC Harold response phase. This ...
Post Date: 25-May-2020
The National Disaster Committee (NDC) has activated two new clusters to support the work of the National Disaster Management Office (NDMO) in its current and future response to disasters affecting ...
Post Date: 22-May-2020
The National Disaster Management Office (NDMO) had confirmed contaminated OKI tin fish distributed to some of the affected communities in Tanna due to the Yasur Ash Fall will be replaced ...
Post Date: 22-May-2020
The Torba Provincial Emergency Operation Center (PDOC) as the leading agency responding to disasters in Torba Province has issued orders to continue cleanup campaign to eliminate malaria in the province. ...
Post Date: 22-May-2020
The National COVID19 Advisory Team at the National Disaster Management Office (NDMO) is putting together a detailed repatriation plan for the return of all Vanuatu citizens stranded overseas due to ...
Post Date: 22-May-2020
The Department of Climate Change (DOCC) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Department of Forestry (DoF) as part of its ongoing partnership program as well as to strengthen ...
Post Date: 18-May-2020
NDMO acknowledges the kind gesture by the Brothers for Life (B4L) members who helped made it possible for the Santo family to go home last Friday. NDMO Director Abraham Nasak ...
Post Date: 14-May-2020
The National Disaster Management Office (NDMO) has deployed more than 30 assessment team members for the detailed sectoral assessment for Tropical Cyclone (TC) Harold this week. This is mainly for ...
Post Date: 14-May-2020
The National Disaster Management Office (NDMO) will begin the second push of distribution of relief supplies as the State of Emergency (SOE) is extended for another 30 days. The SOE ...
Post Date: 14-May-2020
The National Disaster Management Office (NDMO) has received much needed donation from the Port Vila Ambae Disaster Committee as part of the ongoing continuous response efforts by the national government. ...
Post Date: 14-May-2020
The National Emergency Operation Center (NEOC) at the National Disaster Management Office (NDMO) has received confirmation from Tafea Province that the current response to the Tanna Ash Fall victims will ...
Post Date: 14-May-2020
The Department of Youth and Sport branch Office in Torba endorsed a clean-up campaign activity on May 6th to May 7th to help combat the Malaria outbreak after TC Harold. ...
Post Date: 14-May-2020
The National Disaster Management Office (NDMO) wish to inform the general public around the country that the current State of Emergency (SOE) for the whole of Vanuatu will end on ...
Post Date: 14-May-2020
The National Disaster Management Office (NDMO) has received much donated goods and relief items from Mele village in the Island of Efate this week towards TC Harold response. Paramount Chief ...
Post Date: 14-May-2020
The National Disaster Management Office (NDMO) distribution of immediate emergency relief supplies to the victims of Tropical Cyclone (TC) Harold is continuing for Sanma, Penama and Malampa provinces this week.    ...
Post Date: 14-May-2020
The National Disaster Management Office (NDMO) has organised a meeting with the Evacuation Centre working group, co-led by the International Organization for Migration (IOM), to help address the needs of ...
Post Date: 14-May-2020
A total population of 92,274 and 30,996 households from 345 communities from the three affected provinces of Sanma, Penama and Malampa were affected by TC Harold. This was confirmed by ...
Post Date: 14-May-2020