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Pacific Island Students Fighting Climate Change (PISFCC) Strategy Development

March – April 2025 |
Client: PISFCC |
It was a privilege to work with the Pacific Island Students Fighting Climate Change (PISFCC) in convening a three-day workshop focused on reflecting on key lessons learned, strengthening partnerships, and shaping future actions to fully realize the potential of the ICJ Advisory Opinion on climate change as a driver for climate action and justice across the Pacific. Talanoa Consulting was honoured to contribute to this process, supporting the workshop’s preparation and facilitation, as well as collaborating closely with PISFCC in drafting a forward-looking five-year strategy that builds on this important momentum.

Pacific analysis for the Resilient and Sustainable Islands Initiative (RESI) of capacity strengthening initiatives in SIDS, focussed on climate change

November 2024 – April 2025 |
Client: ADB and ODI |
Lead researcher and author for the Pacific in a study commissioned by the Resilient and Sustainable Islands Initiative, for the Overseas Development Institute (ODI). The study examines whether current ways of supporting capacity strengthening in Small Island Development States are fit for purpose and offers recommendations for rethinking initiatives to lean into the strengths of small administrations in the Pacific.

https://odi.org/en/publications/fit-for-size-rethinking-capacity-strengthening-in-small-island-developing-states/

Building Coastal Resilience through Nature-Based and Integrated Solutions – Risk Financing and Insurance Solutions for Coastal Resilience

November 2024 – December 2025 |
Client: Landell Mills and WWF |
Led research and analysis for an ecosystem valuation study and cost benefit analysis for interventions post-disaster that might support coral reef recovery and resilience in the Denarau / Mamanuca Area. This research is part of a wider study assessing the feasibility of coral reef insurance in the Asia-Pacific region, supported by ADB.

Development Bank Learning Exchange

January 2025 – March 2025 |
Client: SPC |
Lead rapporteur for a learning exchange between development banks in the Pacific. Rather than a workshop report, a lessons piece was developed to share the learning more broadly. We were delighted to support the first draft which was further refined internally at SPC. The lessons reveal that these institutions hold forms of capability that are rarely acknowledged sufficiently in global climate finance processes: customer-centric grievance redress mechanisms, trusted community relationships, culturally rooted understandings of land and gender systems, and fit-for-purpose financial structures refined through decades of lending to micro and small businesses across dispersed geographies.

https://www.spc.int/updates/news/media-release/2026/01/pacific-development-banks-navigating-access-to-climate-finance

Senior Executive Women in Leadership Programme 2025

March 2025 – April 2025 |
Client: FICA |
Catalyzing gender inclusive leadership to address sustainable economic growth. Facilitate in advancing women’s leadership within Fiji’s private sector through the Senior Executive Programme by the Fiji Institute of Chartered Accountants (FICA). The initiative targetted senior women in business to build their confidence, expand their skills and knowledge of business operations and establish networks with other women in business. The initiative addressed the gender gap of women’s underrepresentation at the senior executive level by strengthening the enabling environment for business to drive inclusive, private sector-led economic growth.

Consultancy services to provide support to the Kiwa Initiative on Gender Equity, Disability and Social Inclusion (GEDSI) and human rights-based approaches in Nature-based Solutions for climate adaptation projects

April 2023 – January 2025 |
Client: SPREP |
Talanoa Consulting provided support to the Kiwa Initiative on Gender Equity, Disability and Social Inclusion (GEDSI) and human rights-based approaches (HRBA) in Nature-based Solutions for climate adaptation projects. Our support includes the design and delivery of toolkits, training, facilitating a community of practice, hosting online learning events, and technical support to regional projects funded by the Kiwa Initiative.

Resources can be found here: https://kiwainitiative.org/en/news/download-now-our-freely-available-resources-on-gedsi-and-humanrights

Gender Base Violence Fisheries Research Design Framework for the Pacific Sector

October 2024 – April 2025 |
Client: SPC |
Designed a gender-based violence (GBV) research framework for fisheries and aquaculture in the Pacific Island region for the Pacific Community and its partners. This included a desktop review of the evidence for GBV in Pacific fisheries and aquaculture, research framework and survey instruments.

Planning and moderation of a webinar to launch the Pacific Women Lead: Formative Situational Analysis

February 2025 – February 2025 |
Client: DT Global |
Pacific Women Lead Enabling Services is convening a series of webinars. The first webinar, proposed for February 2025, will support the launch of the Pacific Women Lead: Formative Situational Analysis and aims to spark a conversation around research methodology and credibility. Specifically, we hope to explore how donors can support processes that either amplify or hinder Pacific perspectives in research and knowledge documentation.

Effective Area-Based Conservation Measures (OECMs) in the Ocean

April 2024 – May 2025 |
Client: Oregon State University |
Provision of strategic guidance and recommendations on the development of a new tool aimed at identifying, understanding, and tracking the conservation outcomes of other effective (area-based) conservation measures and (OECMs) and other effectively conserved areas in the ocean beyond marine protected areas.