Honiara Urban Resilience and Climate Action Plan

This plan sets out an innovative framework for action that brings together previously disconnected agendas that can be supported, and owned, by many different groups in the capital city of the Soloman Islands. The priority needs and responses have been developed in close collaboration with city and national Government, local communities, NGOs, and a variety of other interested stakeholder groups.

The process of developing the Honiara Urban Resilience and Climate Action Plan was deliberately designed to be stakeholder-led, and as a consequence has benefited from valuable inputs from many local sources. While the original intention was to develop a climate change adaptation plan, it became evident through engagement with local stakeholders that climate change is only one driver affecting the vulnerability of poor communities in Honiara.

Existing exposure to climate variability and natural hazard extreme events meant that disaster risk reduction principles also needed to be accounted for i.e. considering the impacts of immediate shocks as well as longer-term stresses.

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