The Pacific Risk Information System (PacRIS) was compiled by SOPAC under the Pacific Catastrophe Risk Assessment and Financing Initiative. PacRIS was a geographic information platform designed to provide the Pacific Island Countries, development partners and the private sector with the data and tools needed to develop disaster risk reduction applications.
The SPC Applied Geoscience and Technology Division (SOPAC) encouraged member countries, partners and the private sector to use the PacRIS platform to develop disaster risk reduction solutions — integrated financial, technical and planning solutions to reduce the vulnerability of Pacific Island Countries to natural disasters and climate change. PCRAFI supported the first set of applications built on PacRIS: a risk financing and insurance pool for the Pacific, disaster response planning applications for selected locations, and a post-disaster assessment tool.
PCRAFI was a joint initiative of SOPAC/SPC, the World Bank and the Asian Development Bank, with the financial support of the Government of Japan and the Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery, and technical support from AIR Worldwide, New Zealand GNS Science, Geoscience Australia, the Pacific Disaster Center, OpenGeo and GFDRR Labs.