Students at San Isidro Care Centre in Northwest Guadalcanal are learning new livelihoods and food security skills through the AHP COVID-19 response in Solomon Islands.

Through the AHP COVID-19 Response, new Village Savings and Loan Groups in Tanna, Vanuatu, are supporting women and men to put aside savings to grow their businesses or achieve family goals.

Churches are a key part of community life in Tuvalu. As part of the Australian Humanitarian Partnership’s COVID-19 response, church leaders are being trained on providing psychological support to communities.

Through Disaster READY, communities in Bobonaro, Timor-Leste, have been supported to protect their water sources from contamination, improving community health and agriculture.

For villages along the Bebui River in Viqueque, Timor-Leste, the river is an important water source. Now, a community-designed early warning system is saving lives along the river during the dangerous rainy season.

Ten schools and surrounding communities in Madang have prepared hazard maps for disaster preparedness, with the support of the Disaster READY program.

AHP-supported psychosocial support and skill development programs for Rohingya women, including those with disabilities, in Cox’s Bazar are aiming to reduce gender-based violence and increase independence.

Children in Solomon Islands have learned how to protect themselves from earthquakes and tsunamis through a school-based disaster risk reduction program.

Disaster READY partner NGO Childfund PNG, in consortium with Plan Australia, has been supporting local-level governments in Papua New Guinea’s Central Province to better prepare for disasters through planning and training.

Through the AHP Disaster READY program, three parishes in Oecusse, Timor-Leste, have been supported to install water tanks and access training on community-based disaster risk management.

Australian Humanitarian Partnership NGOs have been rolling out new water tanks and handwashing facilities in PNG to combat the spread of COVID-19.

Handwashing stations and hygiene kits are not only helping families prepare for possible cases of COVID-19 in Kiribati: they are also helping young technical graduates build their skills.

Chakma people in Bangladesh have traditionally had limited access to formal education. But new early childhood and adolescent education centres supported by AHP partners are creating opportunities.

For Vanuatu workers who had their plans to work in Australia and New Zealand disrupted by the pandemic, an AHP-supported Cash for Work program is providing other ways to earn and learn.

Vocational training through the Building Peaceful Futures AHP response in Iraq is supporting men and women of all ages to learn new skills to support themselves and their families.

Australian Humanitarian Partnership agencies have been supporting those impacted by a series of fires in refugee camps in Bangladesh, but damage to their facilities has created new challenges.

With the support of Disaster READY partners in Timor-Leste, farmers like Elda have learned techniques to weather the country’s long dry seasons to improve their food security and livelihood.

AHP partners in Vanuatu are delivering an Unblocked Cash program in response to TC Harold and COVID-19. Read here what this has meant for people with disabilities.

The AHP COVID-19 response in PNG is being delivered across 17 provinces. More than 20,000 people were reached with COVID-19 information in East Sepik Province alone in 2020. Read more here.