AHP Videos

Haos Blong Yumi is a 5-day training workshop teaching women and men in Vanuatu who have recently returned from overseas work about managing a small building project with their savings. The training focuses on building cyclone-resilient housing, or on modifying an existing home to be more cyclone resilient – helping to keep Vanuatu families safe during disasters.

In Bangladesh, Community-Based Youth Clubs are helping adolescent girls and boys, including those with a disability, to access education and make social connections. Plan International and local partner Friends in Village Development Bangladesh are running the clubs, supported by the Australian Humanitarian Partnership.

Through the AHP-supported Amani program in Lebanon, women, men, girls and boys have been supported through programs to end gender-based violence and provide services to victim-survivors, provide child protection knowledge and referrals, teach positive parenting, and change attitudes and norms.

The Disaster READY program in Timor-Leste has supported some 63 communities in its first five years. This video shows some of the program’s successes.

In Fiji and Solomon Islands, AHP Disaster READY is supporting local partners to increase their capacity for disaster preparedness and response, enhancing inclusion and saving lives.

In Bangladesh, displaced Rohingya have limited access to health services, and women and girls are at high risk of experiencing gender-based violence (GBV). Through the Australian Humanitarian Partnership response in Bangladesh, CARE is supporting the provision of integrated sexual and reproductive health services, including contraception, and gender-based violence services to women living in the camps.

Through the Australian Humanitarian Partnership response in Bangladesh, Rohingya refugees are being assisted with mental health and psychosocial support. Many have experienced trauma, grief and loss.

With AHP support, World Vision Lebanon is supporting families in North Lebanon to stay warm during the coming winter through the provision of cash support, awareness sessions, rehabilitation of houses and support for alternative affordable heating methods.

In Thaing Khali village in Cox’s Bazar, hilly terrain and low groundwater levels made accessing enough water a daily battle. With support from the Australian Humanitarian Partnership (AHP) Bangladesh Consortium through CARE Bangladesh, schools and the community now have easy and regular access to clean water.

The two-year Australian Humanitarian Partnership response to the COVID-19 pandemic in Timor-Leste supported food security, livelihoods, agricultural production, nutrition and health.

The Disaster READY program in Timor-Leste is supporting disaster preparedness and helping communities adapt to the changing climate.

Through the AHP response in Bangladesh, the people of wards 3 and 4 in Raja Palong Union identified local disaster risks and have taken proactive steps to mitigate them with the support of AHP partners. By improving connecting roads and a drainage canal, flooding will be significantly reduced in the future, and accessibility has improved.

Two years after TC Harold and COVID-19 hit, families in Vanuatu are getting back on track, growing themselves healthier and more resilient crops with help from CARE Vanuatu’s AHP and EU-supported Helti Kakae, Helti Famili (Healthy Food, Healthy Family) project.

In Solomon Islands, Disaster READY partner Oxfam produced a music video with talented Honiara reggae artist Jah Boy to share messages on community disaster preparedness.

Josefa Lalabalavu, Plan International’s Pacific DRM Manager, speaks on the Disaster READY program for a speech at the Bali GPDRR conference in May 2022.

AHP partners have been supporting the COVID-19 response across the Pacific, and globally. This short animation highlights their work.

As part of the AHP-supported COVID-19 response in Samoa, and with the support of CARE Australia, Samoa's national disability organisation Nuanua O Le Alofa worked with local NGO Women in Business Development Incorporated to distribute seedlings to 400 people with disabilities and their families.

This film dramatises a Disaster READY disaster preparedness simulation in the Oibola community in Solomon Islands’ Malaita province. The local community and partners contributed to script writing and acted all the roles in the short film.

This animation shows how the AHP Bangladesh response has been supporting COVID-19 public health efforts in Rohingya camps at Cox’s Bazar. (Bengali w subtitles)

In August 2021, the Disaster READY team in Vanuatu conducted a successful Disaster Risk Reduction and Tropical Cyclone Simulation Exercise in Canal Fanafo, Santo.

AHP partners in Fiji prepared this public service announcement, which aired on FBC TV, on the importance of inclusive disaster preparedness and response, supported by Disaster READY.

The Famili I Redi (‘Family Ready’) training package has been designed in Vanuatu to ensure that the benefits of labour mobility are felt by all household members and entire communities, as part of the AHP COVID-19 Response to support Vanuatu's economic recovery from the pandemic.

The AHP Bangladesh consortium is part of Australia’s response to the Rohingya displacement crisis, and is supporting activities in 23 camps and with host communities. This video, prepared by the Consortium, provides an overview of the Phase III response.

Save the Children Vanuatu's Protektem Mi Program provides psychosocial support to children who have been impacted by disasters. The program is supported through the Australian Humanitarian Partnership's COVID-19 response.

Naomi Tai is the Disability Inclusive Disaster Risk Reduction (DI-DRR) Officer for People with Disabilities Solomon Islands, the National Organisation of Persons with Disabilities. Her role is supported by AHP, through the Disaster READY program.