This report is based on work undertaken under ADB Technical Assistance (TA) 9348-REG: Strengthening Women’s

Resilience to Climate Change and Disaster Risk in Asia and the Pacific. Overall, the regional project objective is to

strengthen the capacity of policymakers in three countries: Fiji, the Lao People’s Democratic Republic (Lao PDR),

and Mongolia, and to make climate change and disaster risk management (DRM) policies, strategies, or financing

gender-responsive. This Fiji country report on climate change and DRM law and policy frameworks is one element

of the project, and similar reports have been prepared for the Lao PDR and Mongolia.

The report was prepared under the overall guidance of Malika Shagazatova (social development specialist) and

Zonibel Woods (senior social development specialist) in the ADB Sustainable Development and Climate Change

Department (SDCC). Support and contributions were provided by Alih Faisal Pimentel Abdul (TA coordinator),

Nalini Singh (national gender consultant), and Ma. Celia A. Guzon (senior operations assistant). Consultants Robyn

Layton (gender and law expert) and Mary Picard (climate change and disaster risk management/environmental law

expert) drafted the report. The report was edited by Amy Reggers, gender and climate change consultant.

Special thanks to Samantha Hung, chief of gender equality thematic group, SDCC; Sonomi Tanaka, country

director, Lao People’s Democratic Republic and former chief of gender equity thematic group, SDCC; and Erik

Aelbers, senior country specialist, Pacific Subregional Office (SPSO) of the Pacific Department (PARD), for their

overall support and guidance in the implementation of the TA project.

The report benefited significantly from comments by Mairi Macrae and Emma Veve, PARD, and Erik Aelbers,

Kristina Katich, and Hanna Uusimaa, SPSO.

Special thanks for the contributions of participants in two national workshops in Fiji.