Season 2: Episode 3 - Our Voices, Our Choices, Our Pacific way – Supporting locally-led action

In November 2023, the 52nd Pacific Islands Forum meeting was held and the host, the Cook Islands, chose the theme: Our Voices, Our Choices, Our Pacific Way, underscoring the importance of local context and how tackling challenges needs to be locally led. The Pacific region is home to a strong and extensive resilience network, rooted in traditional knowledge, so what we can learn from the region that’s leading the way when it comes to doing humanitarian response differently? In this episode of I Think You’re On Mute, the Pacific is in focus. Your host Beth Eggleston explores how anticipatory action differs from disaster preparedness, and how we can better support locally led action across the region while leveraging traditional knowledge, with anticipatory action and localisation specialists, Catherine Jones and Akmal Ali. Full podcast transcript: https://humanitarianadvisorygroup.org/podcast-i-think-youre-on-mute-our-voices-our-choices-our-pacific-way-supporting-locally-led-action-in-the-pacific/ Podcast host and guests: Host: Beth Eggleston, Co-Director, Humanitarian Advisory Group Guests: Catherine Jones Anticipatory Action Lead for Asia-Pacific, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations Speaks to how anticipatory action differs from disaster preparedness and what other regions can learn from the Pacific. Akmal Ali Facility Aiding Locally-Led Engagement (FALE) Pacific, PIANGO Leader, Humanitarian Advisory Group Speaks to localisation in the Pacific and the importance of leveraging traditional knowledge. This episode features the following audio: Start Network: https://www.youtube.com/@StartNetworkGlobal Podcast research and links: Humanitarian Horizons | On The Front Foot: Envisioning A Model For Anticipatory Action In The Pacific https://humanitarianadvisorygroup.org/insight/on-the-front-foot-envisioning-a-model-for-anticipatory-action-in-the-pacific/ The 2050 Strategy for the Blue Pacific Continent https://www.forumsec.org/2050strategy/