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It was certainly a proud moment for the interns of the Pacific Catastrophe Risk Insurance Company (PCRIC) as they presented their project proposals to the Chair and Directors at their recent Board Meeting.

An impressive delegation of Pacific-based Finance leaders and key development partners recently convened at a 4-day Pacific Regional Debt Conference titled, “Addressing Debt Sustainability in the Pacific in the Aftermath of COVID-19.”

Earlier this week, the PCRIC team participated in a special media briefing as a critical partner in the disaster risk finance (DRF) arena. The session was led by Pacific Islands Forum Secretariat and the Ministry of Economy Fiji, focusing on introducing and educating the media on the fundamentals of DRF.

At the recent University of the South Pacific and World Bank seminar titled ‘Towards Inclusive Economic Recovery in the Pacific’, PCRIC positioned its question on an often missing key ingredient towards recovery and resilience, namely education.

Eighteen students from the University of the South Pacific who had attended the PCRIC internship webinar have passed their assessments! These students not only grasped the […]

CEO, ‘Aholotu Palu, attended the Linking Risk Financing to Anticipatory Action third sectoral community meeting in early July 2021, organised by the InsuResilience Global Partnership. InsuResilience […]

PCRIC who is a member of the Risk Finance Working Group was part of the second Pacific Resilience Meeting held from the 6th – 8th July, 2021

The PCRIC CEO attended the fourth session of the InsuResilience Global Partnership (IGP) in December 2020. A G7 initiative, InsuResilience is a platform for inclusive collaboration, shared learning and delivery on climate and disaster risk finance and insurance solutions

The recent inclusion of the US President Joseph Biden addressing leaders at the Pacific Islands Forum Meeting was seen as a progressive step where the US re-confirmed their support to the Pacific Island nations in their fight against climate change.