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Rakaka Vol 2 2014.Pdf Partners in Community Development Fiji Working to empower communities by assisting them to make informed decisions for their future development RA KAKA BI-MONTHLY NEWSLETTER www.pcdf.org.fj May - June 2014 Issue 2/2014 IN THIS ISSUE PCDF HELPS NAYAWA WOMEN [1] PCDF HELPS NAYAWA RE-OPEN SHOP WOMEN RE-OPEN SHOP [2] NRM COMPLETES SURVEY By Paradise Tabucala [3] CROSS LEARNING AN “…there is no tool for EYE OPENER development more effective than the empowerment of women…” [3] 4CA WINS UN AWARD hese are the famous words Women of Nayawa Village [4] BLUEPRINT FOR Tof former General Secretary BECHE-DE-MER. to the United Nations, Kofi Annan increase from less than $100 to speaking on empowering women over $2,000. [5] FARMER NOW EARNS and this is true for the women of CLOSE TO $1,000 Nayawa Village in Sigatoka. In 2013, PCDF through its Strengthening Community [6] FARMER NOW THE Through their diligence and Leadership for inclusive VILLAGE MONEY persistence the women of the Participation in reducing LENDER village through the help of a vulnerability to Climatic Change project funded by Australian in Fiji Project undertook business [7] FARMERS NOW ABLE Foundation for teh People of training for the women of Nayawa TO TAKE LOAN Asia and the Pacifi c (AFAP) and and also funded the re-opening implemented in Fiji by Partners of the shop by purchasing over in Community Development Fiji $2,000 worth of groceries. (PCDF) Organization have been able to reopen their own co- The business training was done for operative shop after a lapse of the women of Nayawa Village last two years and have their saving continued on page 2... RARA KAKA KakaKa is Kadavu for parrot. Kadavu Province is the home of the beautifulbe shining parrot, ‘prosopeia splendens’, an endemic species.sp The Kaka is a messenger not only on land but also on sea - it serves as a communicator for God’s living creatures. RA KAKA JUNE 2014 ...continued from page 1 year thanks to the help from the and even grog and farm produce. Centre for Appropriate Technology ‘When it (the shop) opened in These women pay $2.00 a day and Development (CATD). July of last year, there was only and this money goes to a special $80.00 in our bank account but tin which is then used for general Chairwoman of the Nayawa when I checked last week, we duties like hiring a grass cutter. Women’s Committee, Arieta had $2, 334. This is a very big Kunabuli says the shop had been achievement for the shop as the The project is funded by the closed for nearly two years and the two of us had no knowledge at Australian Government’s women were not able to support all on how to handle fi nances. Department of Foreign Affairs their families. At the moment, We only knew how to Dinau, take and Trade (DFAT) through the the shop is proving to be a steady money from customers and give Australian NGO Cooperation source of income for the women’s them the groceries. But now, we Program (ANCP) and group with an average of $80 can stock take, write out orders, collaboratively managed by PCDF worth of sales made in a day from enter inventories and even enter and the Australian Foundation a village of about 75 households. fi nancial ledgers. I am confi dent for the Peoples of Asia and the to say that in future I can open Pacifi c Limited (AFAP). PCDF is Paulini Siganisucu who is a single my own shop all thanks to the a strategic partner of AFAP with mother says that the shop is fi nancial literacy training.” whom they share a long term her lifeline. She currently earns commitment to implementing allowance for running the shop Apart from the general running development projects in Fiji. Both along with Naomi Lalabalavu who of the shop, the women also PCDF and AFAP are also active is also a single parent. rent out space in their shop to members of the Foundation for other women who come and sell the South Pacifi c International homemade buns, small handicraft (FSPI) network. NRM Completes Baseline Survey By Paradise Tabucala After months of painstaking survey and analysis, PCDF has fi nally completed its baseline survey of 25 villages in 4 districts. The survey was undertaken by volunteers and project offi cers from two projects namely the “Sustainable response to Food Security in remote rural Fiji” and Peni Seru with the women of Naicabecabe Village in the district of Moturiki. the “Community based marine management and climate and the areas where we could Fiji” Project which is an change impact preparedness.” assist especially in terms of climate Australian Aid intiative which is change. For example, in Naigani regionally co-ordinated by the The survey covered issues village in Batiki, it was found that Fiji Community Development from Health and sanitation, there were no mangroves and the Program, as well as the household and shelter, climate island was vulnerable in terms of “Community based marine change adaptation, Disaster disasters. This is one area where management and climate Risk management, health PCDF would be able to focus their change impact preparedness.” and nutrition, livelihoods and work. which is funded by Bread for Governance & Social factors. the World, a globally active The aim of the survey done by PCDF is the local implementing relief and development agency PCDF is to understand clearly arm for the “Sustainable response of the Protestant Churches in what the communities are like to Food Security in remote rural Germany. 2 RA KAKA JUNE 2014 4CA Project Cross learning an eye opener By Paradise Tabucala A team of eleven representatives from six villages in Ra went on a two day cross learning experience to Serua and Yanuca Islands as part of the Child Centred Climate Change Adaptation (4CA) Fiji Program learning exercise. Representatives from the villages in the Ra Province. he 11 reps were from the 6 villages where the 4CA T island and saw fi rsthand how the Yanuca and Serua Island are sites project is being implemented in villagers of Yanuca island worked for another PCDF project which is Ra namely – Nayavuira, Navunivi, to ensure that their children had aimed at sustainability of marine Narikoso, Nakorovou, Nasau, a place to call home in the future. resources and also on climate and Veidrala villages. The team change adaptation. consisted mainly of the turaga-ni- koros and the individual reps from ...climate change is 4CA participant, Josaia Moce says the Village Disaster Committee. aff ecting Fiji as a that for him, the experience was an eye opener and he got to see On Day One, the team was taken whole... that climate change is affecting to Serua Island where they Fiji as a whole and also learnt new were able to see fi rst hand the means of ensuring longetivity and damaging effects of the waves The youth reps from Ra spoke also viability of the village for on the island. Serua village is in of how the 4CA Project has future generations. the middle of two small hills and seen them take climate change due to the continuing effects of seriously and also about the 4CA project is funded by the climate change; the village guide various adaptation methods Australian Agency for International shows the area where the sea wall currently being implemented in Development (Australian Aid) used to be but is now ineffective. their villages such as mangrove through PLAN International planting and the set up of the Australia (PIA) to implement the Day two saw the Ra team head Disaster Committee. 4CA Project in Ra. The 4CA project to Yanuca island. A rocky terrain is managed regionally by FSPI. 4CA Wins UN Award The Child Centered Climate The UN Offi ce for Disaster Change Adaptation (4CA) Risk Reduction (UNISDR) Sub- program been awarded the Regional Offi ce awarded the PILAR inaugural UN PILAR award. to 4CA last month, recognising the exemplary action taken by The 4CA project is implemented the Project to build community in 6 Pacifi c countries - Fiji, and national resilience through Tonga, Solomon Islands, Papua disaster risk reduction measures. New Guinea and Kiribati. It is coordinated in Fiji by the 6 villages in Ra namely Nasau Foundation of the Peoples of the village, Nayavuira, Narikoso, Suresh Pokharel the Program Manager - South Pacifi c and implemented Navuniivi, Nakorovou and Veidrala Disaster Risk Reduction (Plan International by the Partners in Community were the pilot project sites for Fiji. - Australia) with Roshni Chand and Amit Development Fiji. of FSPI - the regional partners in the 4CA program. 3 RA KAKA JUNE 2014 ACIAR Project Blueprint for brilliant beche-de-mer. Na vakarautaki ni sasalu After 170 years Pacifi c ni waitui me ivoli: artisanal fi sheries now have a Na ivola me ra vakayagataka na dauqoli ena Pasifika comprehensive guide on how to prepare the sea cucumber for sale. By Paradise Tabucala brand new guidebook to A processing sea cucumbers popular in China, used as a key developed by project partners luxury ingredient of festive dishes. Southern Cross University and the Secretariat of the Pacifi c More than 4000 copies have been Community has been launched printed and will soon be distributed and translated into the Fiji, Tonga through village-based workshops and Kiribati languages. in the ACIAR project. Sea cucumber can fetch high prices teach them the best ways to cut, The research is also hoping to have if processed correctly and up till salt, dry and store sea cucumbers benefi ts to fi shery sustainability, now, many Pacifi c fi shers lacked using their own village resources.
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