Flora Vano

Flora Vano is a Ni-Vanuatu woman leading ActionAid’s Country Office in Vanuatu. The focus of the country office is to support local women-led protection, resilience and Climate Change Adaptation and resilience work as well as responding to COVID-19.
Flora joined the organization in 2017 from a management role in the Tourism Sector. She joined to support the team address the impacts of Tropical Cyclone Pam and has continued to date. Flora has played a critical role in setting up the Vanuatu country office as well as starting up programs led by local women providing leadership to the start-up of Women I TokTok Tugeta Forums which is the platform and safe space for diverse inclusive Ni-Vanuatu women to organise and strategise.