Resilient Inclusive and Safe Churches and Communities (Fiji)

Through this project, our partner, the Methodist Church in Fiji, is working to ensure MCIF churches and communities provide safe and inclusive environments for women, children and other vulnerable groups, and to support MCIF churches and communities to be prepared to respond to and recover from natural disasters.

The current project priorities are:

• Finalising the MCIF Disability and Social Inclusion Policy and developing disability inclusion awareness toolkits.
• Providing resources for communities for community-based, climate-informed disaster risk assessment and planning, in line with the Disaster Risk Reduction and Disaster Risk Management (DRR/DRM) policy, including development and piloting of training manuals on Disaster Risk Resilience,Emergency Supplies Inventory Management  and Church-based Evacuation Centre Management.
• Building on the Disaster Recovery Chaplaincy Network (DRCN) that has been developed over the last 3 years, by providing DRCN/trauma healing training and supporting trained chaplains to complete higher training in Pastoral Counselling.
• Family Life Institutional Transformation (FLIT) is building on the work done over the last five years through Gender Equality Theology – Institutional Transformation (GET-IT), with the new name chosen to better reflect the focus on children and young people, and the MCIF approach of engaging men and boys along with women and girls.
• Safeguarding and Protection policies and Bible Studies on God’s Vision for Human Relationships will be promoted to church leaders and communities, and be made available in several languages.
• Organisational strengthening will be undertaken for improved project and financial management and project monitoring.