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A new programme to bolster women’s resilience and leadership for sustainable, secure and thriving communities in the Solomon Islands, in the face of disasters, was launched today.

This research paper is the first guidance note in the World Bank’s Social Dimensions of Climate Change: Pacific Series. The notes in this series synthesize the results from primary research carried out in Solomon Islands in 2021.

The disaster risk reduction status report provides a snapshot of the state of disaster risk reduction in the Republic of the Marshall Islands under four priorities of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030.

This analysis draws primarily on the perspectives of people living in vulnerable locations and aims to improve policy and practice around climate-related migration within Solomon Islands and the Pacific region more broadly.

Considering the social dimensions of climate change is essential to building resilience and developing effective policy and programs within Solomon Islands and throughout the Pacific region.

This research paper focuses on building the social resilience of vulnerable communities to climate change in Solomon Islands. Grounded in extensive field work incorporating qualitative and quantitative data collection in five selected coastal communities.

This publication reviews the financial performance of state-owned enterprises (SOEs) in nine Pacific island economies and looks at how policy makers can help state-owned power utilities address climate risk.

Solomon Islands is one of the most disaster-prone countries in the Pacific region and in the world. In 2021, the World Risk Report put the Solomon Islands as the second most at risk country when it comes to disasters.