Island Reach Project Coordinator Ronneth John has been accepted to attend a regional conservation training course on Community-based Conservation and Adaptive Management.  Ronneth's acceptance is based on his long-time commitment to conservation and his proposal to work with IR to reach remote communities throughout Vanuatu were he can provide leadership and the transfer of skills and knowledge to these communities.

The aim of this 3 phase program is to build and improve the capacity of conservation practitioners, like Ronneth, to achieve widespread natural resource management and sustainable community livelihoods among Pacific Small Island Developing States. The course is a result of a collaboration of multiple agencies and organizations, including the Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP), the University of the South Pacific, and with principal funding from the Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund.

The program will take Ronneth to Solomon Islands  for a 4 week training in April, after which he'll join us aboard Llyr to implement his project work in central and northern Vanuatu for 4 months, and then he'll return to Honiara for a 3 week period of review, reflection, and reporting, as well as additional training.

Live & Learn Vanuatu has released their report on Water Security in the Shepherd Group which Island Reach was instrumental in helping prepare.  In 2014Island Reach delivered and assisted with the installation of the water catchment system and then we returned, post-cyclone, in 2015, to learn about the effects of the cyclone and the building El Nino.  Our two videos are featured in this report.

Learn more at this link: Water Security, Shepherd Group Islands, Live & Learn Vanuatu