Milne Bay Province building resilience to climate change

The 24 million dollar Building Resilience to Climate Change/ B.R.C.C Program involving five pilot provinces has delivered 13 dinghies to Milne Bay's Island and atoll communities.

21 remote island communities were identified from five provinces under this program supported by the Asian Development Bank which has already installed water catchment and tanks to sanitation facilities and now these dinghies.

The program begun in 2016 and is slowly meeting its deliverables as it winds down.

Acting Managing Director of the Climate Change and Development Authority Debra Sungi says this is under the BRCC's output 2 component targeting key expected results to improving socio-economic mobility for island and atoll communities at the forefront of the impact of climate change.

Acting MD (CCDA) Debra Sungi hands over a dinghy manual to Kaduwaga ward skipper Jonathan Douwa as ADB Stanley Jack looks on.

Milne Bay is one of five provinces piloting this program, others include Manus, East New Britain, Morobe and the Autonomous Region of Bougainville.

This same program under output three was also responsible for the first ever Climate Change proof wharf project in Papua New Guinea, Milne Bay also host to this.