New Portal To Boost Ngos Service Reach To Rural Communities

A new informative portal (website) launch marked a new era of on­line service delivery for target communities and rural settlements in the Northern Division.

The launching held recently in Labasa was part of the Ecosystem-based Climate Adaptation Project (ECAP) implemented by the Live and Learn Environmental Education Fiji organisation.

Under the ECAP project, 18 communi­ties in the North are part of ECAP-related projects where sustainable community livelihood projects like beekeeping, agri­culture and others are supported.

The programme is funded by the Euro­pean Union.

Organisation president, Doris Susau, said the launching fulfilled the project objective to build local socioeconomic re­silience to climate change in vulnerable communities in the Northern parts of Fiji.

Ms Susau said the portal was developed to establish tools visible to the climate change sector, Government and commu­nities.

She said it would connect and closely share the learnings and knowledge re­sources from the project with their active communities and interested stakehold­ers.

“Structured exchanges will be used to share learning within and between com­munities and this will be via sharing links on the social media, widely used by our communities,” she said.

Chief guest, Divisional Planning Offic­er, Setareki Dakuiboca, shared his grati­tude to the organisation as it positively impacted the livelihood of its target com­munities.

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