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Ensure Safe, Secured, Sustainable and highly resilient Transport, Infrastructure and Development services for Samoa.
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To strengthen the alignment of the compliance level of national practices with international standards for safe, secure, sustainable and resilient Transport, Infrastructure & Development services.
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Samoa Launches PREPARE Project to Strengthen Climate and Disaster Resilience
Samoa’s Deputy Prime Minister officially launched the PREPARE Project, a major initiative aimed at boosting the country’s ability to prepare for, respond to, and recover from natural disasters and the impacts of climate change.
The project will focus on:
Upgrading hazard monitoring and early warning systems
Strengthening emergency preparedness and response capabilities
Making critical infrastructure more resilient
Supporting smarter, risk-aware urban planning—with a special focus on the Salelologa Township area
Speaking at the launch, the Deputy Prime Minister highlighted Samoa’s high vulnerability as a Small Island Developing State to cyclones, flooding, and other hazards, and reaffirmed the government’s commitment to protecting communities and livelihoods. The initiative will be carried out through close cooperation between the Ministry of Finance, Ministry Natural Resources and Environment, and Ministry Works, Transport and Infrastructure.
Training & Achievements
World Breast feeding Week 2026
Wearing yellow for World Breastfeeding Week 2026.Together, we support breastfeeding awareness and healthier futures for all.
Pacific Humanitarian Warehousing Programme (PHWP) - Accessibility Audit Training @ Novotel Nadi Hotel, Fiji | 28–31 July 2026
Last week, MWTI’s Principal Policy and Planning Officer in the Sector Planning, Coordination and Evaluation (SPCE) Division, Rainer Brown represented MWTI at the PHWP Accessibility Audit Training in Nadi, Fiji. Rainer was joined in Samoa’s delegation by representatives from MNRE – Disaster Management Office and Nuanua o le Alofa
The Training is directly relevant to Rainer’s role in Planning and will help ensure accessibility and inclusion are built into the Ministry’s disaster risk management planning across the transport and infrastructure sector.
The training brought together National Disaster Management Offices (NDMOs), infrastructure agencies like us and Organisations of Persons with Disabilities (OPDs) from across the Pacific region.
- The right to accessibility, based on the CRPD (Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities)
- Universal Design principles
- The Pacific Disability Forum’s Access Audit Toolkit
- How to carry out a real accessibility audit
All the above were put into practice with a hands-on exercise at Novotel Nadi Hotel itself and a field accessibility audit at the Commissioner Western’s Office in Lautoka
The training was delivered by SPC’s PHWP, together with the Pacific Disability Forum, the Fiji Disabled Peoples Federation and Ra’es Hadomi Timor Oan.
A key lesson from the week: “accessibility is not something to add later – it must be part of how we plan and build from the very start, in partnership with persons with disabilities” RB
MWTI is proud to be part of this work, helping build a Pacific that is safer and more inclusive for everyone before, during and after disasters.
