WASHINGTON, December 19, 2023 –The World Bank’s Board of Executive Directors approved a US$20 million grant to support the Government of Solomon Islands in improving financial management, strengthen...
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Solomon Islands: Disaster Management Reference Handbook, October 2023
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Solomon Islands is exposed to a range of natural hazards, including earthquakes, tsunamis, volcanos, tropical storms, and flooding. Natural disasters that particularly affected the...
Community Driven Development, Climate Change, and Resiliency: Lessons from Solomon Islands
Bobby Anderson Between 2009 and 2022, the Rural Development Program (RDP) built 663 small scale infrastructure projects chosen by communities across Solomon Islands. As RDP closed, the author visited...
Major community climate adaptation project launches in Solomon Islands
The locally led project will directly reach a quarter of the country’s population, helping to build the resilience of children and communities in the face of the climate crisis. Honiara, 14 July...
World Bank Bolsters Community Participation in Climate-Resilient Rural Projects in Solomon Islands
New US$24 million project will strengthen government delivery of essential infrastructure and services for communities and support economic development across all nine provinces WASHINGTON, June 14,...
Climate Risk Country Profile - Solomon Islands
KEY MESSAGES • The Solomon Islands are warming and are expected to continue to experience warming trends throughout the 21st century. Future rates of warming are clouded by current models’ inability...
Risk profile: Sudden-Onset Hazards and the Risk of Future Displacement in Solomon Islands
Summary Disaster displacement is one of the world's biggest humanitarian and sustainable development challenges, and climate change and urbanisation serve to aggravate the phenomenon. IDMC has built...
Early Action Rainfall Workshop Held In Solomon Islands
15 September 2020, Honiara, Solomon Islands – A sub-national workshop to raise awareness and train key sub-national stakeholders to understand and correctly interpret sub-seasonal to monthly to...
Adapting Towards Resilience: Water and Sanitation is Everybody’s Business
Honiara, Solomon Islands - Water and sanitation is everybody’s business” from “ridge to reef” and “from community to cabinet.” Under Secretary to the Ministry of Mines, Energy and Rural...
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Pacific met services play key role in informing health, food and water security, tourism, energy and disaster risk reduction
Warmer temperatures and increased rainfall can pose threats to our livelihoods and health by impacting the quality of water we drink, the food we consume, and the weather we experience. But there are...
Building Community Resilience in the Solomon Islands : Helping communities manage disaster and climate risk
AT A GLANCE Against the backdrop of intensifying climate and disaster risk, the Solomon Islands is building resilience at the community level through the Community Resilience to Climate and Disaster...
Wea nao bae iu go, where will you go?
An archipelago of over 990 small islands, covering around 27,000 square kilometres, the Solomon Islands boasts rich cultural diversity and an array of terrain, species and natural resources. In many...
Solomon Islands Climate Change and Disaster Risk Finance Assessment - Final Report, September 2017
Executive Summary Climate change and disaster risk management are issues of high priority to the Solomon Islands Government, given the current and future impacts expected, and the associated risks...
As climate threats grow, Solomon Islands hunts “evergreen” solutions
By Catherine Wilson PAPAGU, Solomon Islands, Oct 23 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Three years ago, thousands of farmers living on the flat fertile plains of Guadalcanal, the largest island in this...
Honiara Urban Resilience & Climate Action Plan
Executive Summary Honiara, the capital city of the Solomon Islands, faces a myriad of resilience challenges. Not only is the city already exposed to multiple natural hazards, a changing climate will...
Solomon Islands hold first national drought policy workshop and consultations
The first National Drought Policy Workshop and Consultations hosted by the Government of Solomon Islands was held this month. The workshop and consultations brought together national stakeholders...
Pacific Risk Resilience Programme Country Briefs - Solomon Islands
More than 180 people have been killed in the Solomon Islands and over half the population affected in recent years by disasters such as droughts, earthquakes, floods and storms. As recently as 2014,...
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Climate change threatens Pacific hospitals - WHO
The World Health Organisation says hospitals in the Pacific region are struggling to cope with the effects of climate change and coastal erosion. Read the full article on Radio New Zealand...
Putting risk on the map in the Solomon Islands
The Solomon Islands is set to have a one-stop-shop database of maps and relevant information that shows decision-makers where risks like flooding, erosion and landslides are high. From the data...
With 'even the fish confused', Solomons seek new weather data
Author: Dana MacLean AVUAVU, Solomon Islands (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - An abandoned airstrip overgrown with weeds marks the entrance to this village of 400 people on Guadalcanal, the largest of...