Solomon Islands Rural Development Program II

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The Solomon Island’s Second Rural Development Program has an objective to improve basic infrastructure and services in rural areas and to strengthen the linkages between smallholder farming households and markets. Component one aims to retain and refine the community-driven development mechanisms developed during the first phase of the RDP with a number of modifications based on implementation lessons and evaluation findings. Component two aims to: (i) assist farming households to engage in productive partnerships with commercial enterprises; (ii) build the capacity of MAL to deliver its core functions of regulation, research and sector coordination; and (iii) restore the productive assets of households critically affected by the April 2014 flash floods. Component three contains only core, cross-component management functions would remain under this overarching component including: overall program management, finance, procurement, overall M&E/MIS (including contracting studies on topics such as land use and ownership, disaster preparedness, etc.), and environmental safeguards.