Live & Learn works with communities throughout Asia and the Pacific to design, implement and learn from community-based development projects. The projects are specific to each community and cover a number of thematic program areas. These include: Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) sustainable use of biodiversity environmental governance natural resource-based conflict management and peace building understanding climate change sustainable energy options community-based waste reduction and management human rights community disaster prevention and preparedness. Established in Australia in 1992, Live & Learn’s first country office was opened in the Solomon Islands in 1995. The Live & Learn network of locally registered non-governmental organisations has grown significantly since 1992, now operating in 9 countries: Australia, Cambodia, Fiji, Kiribati, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Tonga, Vanuatu, Tuvalu and Vietnam.