NGO: More Awareness To Grassroots Level Vital

The Fiji Council of Social Ser­vices (FCOSS) is supporting calls for awareness drives at grassroots level on Fiji’s national debt.

FCOSS executive director Vani Catanasiga described the need as “urgent” as the impact on communi­ties of resolving the country’s debt situation will not be the only thing they will be dealing with.

“They need to understand what changes need to happen at their level to maintain wellbeing and re­silience, particularly as we consider that annually we experience cy­clones, flooding and other impacts of climate change,” Ms Catanasiga said.

She also called for stronger funding support to organisations engaged in this work.

“Governments and development partners, especially multilaterals do not have adequate skills or experi­ences to speak about these issues to the communities directly,” Ms Cat­anasiga said.

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