ADDITIONAL SUPPORT FOR FIJI’S POST-DISASTER EFFORTS AS COUNTRY RECOVERS FROM CYCLONE YASA
09/03/2021
Responding to the Fijian Government’s recovery efforts, the UN Development Programme (UNDP) is providing additional funding support to the Ministry of Rural and Maritime Development and Disaster Management in coordinating disaster response and recovery following Tropical Cyclone Yasa.
The Category 5 storm which hit the country on 17 December 2020, caused heavy destruction to infrastructure, buildings and agricultural areas as it cut a path across Vanua Levu and the Lau group of islands. It was the strongest storm since Tropical Cyclone Winston in 2016 and has left thousands of Fijians without homes.