Beyond Recovery: Towards 2030

 

 

Beyond Recovery: Towards 2030

Our evolving response for Solomon Islands

The country reported its first case of COVID-19 on 3rd October 2020. The country was able to contain the virus until January 2022 when it reported its first community transmission that led to an outbreak. The National Health Emergency Operations Centre continues its contact tracing and swabbing of individuals who are possible contacts of those that tested positive for COVID-19. The National Emergency Operations Centre has been activated to support coordination with other emergency and essential service providers. 

As of 24 May 2022, there have been 18,174 confirmed cases and 146 deaths due to COVID-19. As of 14 May 2022, a total of 439,234 vaccine doses have been administered. For more information, please visit the Ministry of Health and Medical Services or the WHO Country Overview. 

UNDP's Offer 2.0

 

 

Building a new social contract

UNDP is supporting the Government in the following areas:

Institutional continuity of the National Parliament of Solomon Islands to fulfil its constitutional mandate with a specific focus on its continuity despite COVID-19 restrictions through:

  • strategic and technical advice for review and adaptation of parliamentary procedure to the new working context
  • support the development of internal Standard Operating Procedures and Business Continuity Plan to ensure administrative continuity
  • assist the digitalization and capacity to work remotely by providing ICT equipment to allow virtual meetings of committees, virtual public consultations and budget discussions.

A specific assistance is proposed on strengthening parliamentary oversight of the Executive response to the pandemic and provide a ‘surge’ capacity to conduct an independent parliamentary budget analysis on COVID-19 response packages through the Pacific Floating Budget Office, especially on cross-cutting thematic issues such as gender inclusivity and climate change finance.

Provision of technical policy and advisory support on COVID-19 and corruption. An advisory note on ‘COVID-19 and Corruption in the Pacific’ has been prepared and distributed to Pacific governments. A series of COVID-19 activities are being implemented, including in relation to addressing the procurement risks, capacity building for corruption risk assessment in the health sector, alerting of human-rights implications of corruption under COVID-19 and awareness raising of COVID-19 corruption risks across all sectors of society.

Specific focus has been on promoting business integrity and ethics and providing trainings on protection of businesses against corruption with a specific focus on youth entrepreneurs and women-owned enterprises. COVID-19 corruption implications for the business sector have been at the core of the anti-corruption debate.