The Government of Vanuatu (GoV) and Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) Governance for Growth (GfG) program commenced in 2007 and has run in two phases. Its primary objectives have been to improve macroeconomic, microeconomic, fiscal and service delivery outcomes in Vanuatu.
To provide an in-depth exercise for participants from a single jurisdiction purposely to assist them improve their overall emergency management system.
Project will provide a risk mapping and modelling tool, accompanying data management systems, staff and stakeholder training in risk assessment and tool application.
Progress assessed against the Solomon Islands Economic and Financial Reform Matrix
Training Programs for Transportation Governance and Water Supply
Activities support the Implementation Strategy for the Solomon Islands NPOA. Western Province was the location of the Gizo Integration site for the USAID funded CTSP project. WorldFish and WWF-SI were partners in testing community based adaptation planning for climate change and community MPA agreements.
Identify potential agricultural technologies that can be applied given set of climatic conditions, recognise the role and importance of agricultural technologies, availability and accessibility to poor farmers and smallholders in improving their socio-economic conditions, understand the mechanics and application of DREAM Model in research, and strengthen the capacity of national research partners in DREAM modelling.
The baseline for climate change mitigation and adaptation. The project enables all signatories to UNFCCC to prepare a National Communication comprising three major elements: a national greenhouse gas inventory, abatement analysis, and vulnerability and adaptation assessments.
The Pacific Risk Resilience Programme supports the Government of Solomon Island’s efforts to achieve resilient development outcomes as outlined in the National Development Strategy, 2016-2035. It does this in recognition that climate change and disasters can set-back years of development gains, and that ‘unchecked’ development in itself can increase people’s vulnerability. Mainstreaming disaster and climate change risk, including gender and social dimensions, means working from within governance arrangements for development.
Building the resilience of communities and their ecosystems to the impacts of climate change in the Pacific is a partnership supported by Australian Aid and led by The Nature Conservancy (TNC) working at the community, province and national level in three countries: The Solomon Islands (Isabel and Choiseul provinces), Papua New Guinea (Manus and Madang provinces) and the Republic of the Marshall Islands (Majuro and Namdrik Atolls).
