06/10/2026
We’ve been watching 👀the conversations happening across the Pacific this week. 🌊
For generations, Pacific peoples have been having long conversations about prosperity, resilience, sustainability, self-determination and the value of our own knowledge.
At Tapa Talanoa, we see a version of that conversation playing out at our own diaspora based micro level.
We’re doing the work.
We have the knowledge
We have the custodians
We have the community
We have the impact
Yet finding a pathway to sustainable funding for Pacific-led, Pacific-for-Pacific work can still be incredibly difficult.
The irony is not lost on us.
The same gap we see at our level - between recognising the value of Pacific-led solutions and actually resourcing them - feels very much familiar in the bigger Pacific conversations.
We don’t need another conversation about the value of what communities are already doing. 🤦🏻♀️🤷🏽♀️
We need pathways that move resources, decision-making and investment closer to the communities creating the solutions.
➡️ To funders: if Pacific-led resilience is a priority, let’s make the pathway to funding as accessible as the call for solutions.
The work is already happening.
🌺 Our Tapa. Our Koloa. Our Knowledge. Our Future
Fund the work. Trust the indigenous custodians. Back the communities.
