BY JOHN HOUANIHAU COMMUNITY-based conservation groups in Malaita Province will be benefiting from the Forest Development Fund (FDF) under the USAID Strengthening Competitiveness Agriculture Livelihood and Environment – Natural Resource Management (SCALE-NRM) Grant Project under Winrock International to transform the…
CHIEF John Andrew Kiri of North Malaita is blunt in his assessment of environmental conditions in and around his tropical community’s lands – and indeed, across all of Malaita, the most populous and largest island by size in the Solomon…
HONIARA – The Concrete batching plant for the Tina River Hydropower Development Project has gone through its final installation work and is expected to be in full operation by January 2023. Manas Ranjan Samal, Hyundai Electrical Engineering (HEC) Electrical Manager…
The Restless Seas of Walande Community Many of the coastal communities in the Solomon Islands are facing the threat of coastal erosion. Walande Community, in the Southern region of Malaita province, is a classic example of a community that battles…
BY JOHN HOUANIHAU As part of the Solomon Islands government’s program to revive the country’s crippling cattle industry, a stakeholder’s workshop on the feasibility study for the development of the Hakama Cattle Farm has been held in Tulagi, Central Islands…
Bara community within Maringe-Kokota Constituency (MKC) in Isabel Province will soon benefit from a poultry project worth $89,035.00. Located at Tirofihi, a site less than a kilometer away from Buala station, the national government through MKC Office is funding the…
BY JOHN HOUANIHAU CLIMATE finance is an important topic in the overall climate change space, according to the National Program Coordinator and Head of the Project Coordination Management Unit of the Ministry of Environment Climate Change & Disaster Management, Barnabas…
The Solomon Islands Government through the Ministry of Environment Climate Change Disaster Management and Meteorology and Ministry of Health, The Honiara City Council and JICA has concluded its final Joint Coordinating Committee Meeting of the Japanese Technical Cooperation Project for…
REPRESENTATIVES from the government, private sector, civil society, and development agencies have validated a new draft climate finance and public spending roadmap for the Solomon Islands. The validation rounded off a half-day workshop in Honiara, on Friday 12 August. The…
BY MYRNE LIVETT THE Government’s Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock aims to improve the delivery with the rollout of the World Banks funded, Solomon Islands Agriculture Rural Transformation Program in the country, says Deputy Director Project, McDonnell Hiva. The World…
A delegation of Lenders flew into Honiara last week, marking the first face-to-face supervisedLenders’ mission for the Tina River Hydropower Development Project before COVID-19 andthe closing of international borders. Representatives from the World Bank (WB), Asian Development Bank (ADB), Korea…
Solomon Islands Ministry of Health and Medical Services and the Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock stand in great appreciation to the government of India for providing over 2 million worth of medicines and agricultural seeds. The medicines comprised anti-viral drugs…