UNDP Solomon Islands

21/01/2026

📝Measuring Change: Process Feedback Survey

Good development doesn’t stop at implementation…it checks back in.

In December 2025, enumerators returned for refresher training and Process Feedback survey preparation in Auki, Malaita. This step focused on:

☑️Refreshing survey skills and data ethics
☑️Testing feedback questionnaires
☑️Ensuring consistency with the overall process

By revisiting the same communities and participants, the process feedback survey helps capture perception of communities, members of the committees, provincial and central government officials regarding, what has worked, and what still needs attention.

Together, the KAP and Process Feedback surveys help ensure that community voices remain central throughout the journey🙌

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This post is the fourth in a short series highlighting the Area-Based Approach and its role in strengthening inclusive and evidence-based local planning.

21/01/2026

🤝 From Listening to Planning and Governance: Bringing Communities and Institutions Together Through Structured Engagement

Across eight wards in North Malaita, community members took part in consultations and participatory workshops as part of the Area-Based Approach.

Through open discussions and focus group conversations, women, men, and youth shared their experiences, priorities, and concerns including development priorities, local governance, peacebuilding and social cohesion, inclusion, climate risks, and livelihood and market access.

At the institutional level, the initiative strengthened coordination between Ward Development Committees, Constituency Committees, and the Provincial Government. Through facilitated dialogue, roles and responsibilities were clarified, communication channels improved, and agreed protocols for collaboration were established. While modest in scale, these efforts represented an important step toward more transparent, inclusive, and coordinated local governance arrangements.

This process helped ensure that:
☑️ Community voices directly informed planning
☑️ Local realities shaped proposed solutions
☑️ Coordination across institutions was strengthened, with clearer feedback channels

From listening in villages to planning together, this is what development with communities looks like.

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This post is the third in a short series highlighting the Area-Based Approach and its role in strengthening inclusive and evidence-based local planning.

21/01/2026

👂Listening First: KAP Survey Training

Before asking questions in communities, it’s important to ask the right questions in the right way.

In November 2025, enumerators from World Vision Solomon Islands, together with UNDP, took part in KAP survey training and a pilot survey in Auki, Malaita. The training focused on:

☑️Ethical and informed data collection
☑️Using mobile tools for accurate surveys
☑️Practicing interviews in real community settings

The pilot survey helped fine-tune questions and tools, ensuring they were clear, respectful, and relevant before rolling out the full household survey.

This KAP survey set the starting point helping us understand community conditions before programme activities began.

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This post is the second in a short series highlighting the Area-Based Approach and its role in strengthening inclusive and evidence-based local planning.

21/01/2026

🗣️🙌Development works best when it starts with the people

Introducing the Area-Based Approach (ABA)

The ABA approach looks at a whole community’s its needs, strengths, and priorities rather than focusing on one issue at a time. By working closely with communities and local partners, this approach helps ensure that solutions are relevant, inclusive, and grounded in local realities.

At the heart of ABA is listening: understanding where communities are starting from, what matters most to them, and how change happens over time. That’s where community surveys come in.

📊Over the past months, UNDP and partners have been working alongside communities in eight wards of Northern Malaita to capture this picture through a Knowledge, Attitudes and Perceptions (KAP) Survey and again process feedback survey, generating evidence to support risk-informed planning and data driven development that communities and institutions can use moving forward.

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This post is the first in a short series highlighting ABA and its role in strengthening inclusive and evidence-based local planning.

06/01/2026

🎓 They did it!

The 18th cohort of Solomon Islands Meteorological Service trainees are now proud graduates... and their journey has been nothing short of inspiring. 🙌

Check out their story and celebrate this milestone with us ⤵️

04/12/2025

⚡️We are committed to working with the 🇸🇧Ministry of Mines, Energy and Rural Electrification (MMERE) to position energy as an essential public service and also as a transformative engine for development.

Our joint MMERE-UNDP Energy Campaign builds from the 2024 National Energy Summit in Honiara, which highlighted the need for accessible, affordable and sustainable clean energy.

Hear from some of our key stakeholders as we continue a national dialogue around electricity reform, drawing attention to ways energy access shapes people’s lives and what can be done to improve it.

📢Want to have a say in this vital part of the country’s development? Our survey is still open, which aims to understand electricity access, usage, and needs from individuals, communities, and businesses to improve affordable and sustainable power for all.

👉 You can complete the survey via this link: https://forms.office.com/e/ee2YtMz1hm

25/11/2025

⚡️Energy and the Future: A panel discussion on pathways towards better electricity availability, affordability and sustainability

On Friday 17 November 2025, the Ministry of Mines, Energy and Rural Electrification (MMERE) and UN Development Programme (UNDP) in Solomon Islands brought together major sectors involved in energy planning to share thought and conversations around Solomon Islands, about what a stronger energy sector can do for the country and how, together, all stakeholders can collaborate to deliver this for all Solomon Islanders.

This is part of a joint campaign aimed at informing the government’s energy planning process. With the intention to spark a national dialogue around electricity reform, drawing attention to ways energy access shapes people’s lives and what can be done to improve it.

Over the past couple of months, we have been surveying Solomon Islanders about their energy challenges, needs and ambitions.

Solomon Islanders with an interest in the future of the country’s electricity network are encouraged to participate so they can have a say in this vital part of the country’s development.

👉 Take the survey here: https://forms.office.com/e/ee2YtMz1hm

As a thank you, you’ll go in the draw to win one of 10 mobile phones!📲

05/11/2025

📢DEADLINE EXTENDED: 14 November!

GEF Small Grants Programme in Solomon Islands is looking for individuals with a strong commitment to community and environment to join its National Steering Committee 🙌

Check out the details below ⤵️

📢🌿 Call for Applications – Join the National Steering Committee!

The GEF Small Grants Programme (SGP) in Solomon Islands is looking for passionate, experienced individuals to serve as National Steering Committee (NSC) members.

The NSC plays a key role in guiding the programme supporting environmental projects, reviewing grant proposals, and helping communities create lasting, positive change.

🌏 Areas of expertise we’re seeking include:

✅ Agriculture

✅ Fisheries

✅ Infrastructure

✅ Environment

✅ Water & Sanitation

✅ Community Development

✅ Youth Engagement

✅ Gender Equality

This is a voluntary position for a 3-year term. NSC members contribute to shaping SGP’s impact across the Solomon Islands through transparent, inclusive, and community-led decision-making.

Interested applicants can access the Terms of Reference via: https://zurl.co/U17n5

📝 How to apply:

Submit your CV by Friday, 14 November 2025 to:

📧 [email protected] / [email protected]

📍 Or hand deliver to: UN Joint Presence Office, ANZ Haus, Honiara

📄 For more info or to request the full Terms of Reference, contact the emails above.

27/10/2025

❗️In case you missed it

Call for Proposal for the GEF Small Grants Programme still open for community-led projects in Solomon Islands🇸🇧

For details 👇

📢🌱 CALL FOR PROPOSALS – Small Grants for Big Ideas!

Are you part of a local NGO, community group, youth or women’s organization? Do you have a project idea that helps protect nature, supports sustainable farming or fishing, improves access to clean energy, or tackles waste and pollution?

The GEF Small Grants Programme (SGP) is now accepting applications for funding of up to USD 75,000 for community-led projects across Solomon Islands 🇸🇧

📌 Who can apply?
Community-based organizations, Indigenous groups, women and youth groups, and NGOs — especially those working in remote and rural areas.

🌊🌿⚡ Projects can focus on:
Protecting ecosystems and endangered species
Sustainable agriculture, fisheries, and food security
Renewable energy and off-grid solutions
Waste and chemical management
Urban and community innovations
Promoting inclusion and knowledge sharing

📥 Interested?
Request the concept note and proposal form by emailing:

📧 [email protected] | [email protected]
📍 Or visit the UN Joint Presence Office, ANZ Haus, Honiara

‼️Deadline: 7th November 2025

Let’s build stronger communities and a more sustainable future — together. 💚

09/10/2025

Your Voice, Your Power ⚡️🔌

How do you use electricity in your daily life — or what happens when you don’t have access to it? What could you do if you had better access to electricity?

The Ministry of Mines, Energy and Rural Electrification, with support from UN Development Programme, wants to hear from you. We’re working together to make electric power in Solomon Islands more affordable, more reliable, and accessible to everyone.

💡 Take this short survey, just 5 minutes! Your answers will help guide national energy planning and shape the future of energy in Solomon Islands.

📱As a thank you, you’ll go in the draw to win one of 10 mobile phones!

👉 Take the survey here: https://forms.office.com/e/ee2YtMz1hm

Thank you for sharing your thoughts! Your voice matters.

12/08/2025

🚀 CALL FOR PROPOSALS 🚀

UNDP Solomon Islands’ project "Supporting Informal Enterprises Transition towards Sustainable Growth and Formalization in the African, Caribbean and Pacific Region” is inviting Financial Intermediaries and Fintech Firms to submit proposals for developing, piloting, and scaling innovative digital financial products and services targeting informal enterprises and entrepreneurs — with a focus on women and youth.

💡 The fund will act as a catalytic resource to accelerate solutions that tackle the challenges of access to finance for informal economy actors, driving sustainable growth and formalization.

📌 Solicitation Ref: UNDP-SOI-Call for Proposal-01-2025

📅 Deadline for submissions: 5:00 PM (Solomon Islands time) – 22 August 2025

📍 Pre-Proposal Conference: 15 August 2025 | 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM | UNDP Office, ANZ Haus, Ranadi

📥 How to Apply:
Request the full application template for Call for Proposals from:
📧 Ms. Georgina Toghasa Koelau – [email protected]

Submit proposals to:
📧 [email protected]

Let’s work together to empower informal enterprises, strengthen economic inclusion, and create opportunities for women and youth across the ACP region. 🌍✨

12/08/2025