By RODRICK DESURI 

Auki 

A Strengthening Rural Agricultural Food Security and Economic Resilience – Solomon Islands (SAFER-SI) workshop is underway at the Women’s Centre in Auki, Malaita Province.

The mission of the workshop is to carry out inceptions and conduct community consultations to gather data and information for the development of project proposals.

According to Frank Samo Sari, one of the participants representing the youth, he said the workshop prepares them to develop their annual budget for their fiscal year.

He said that before the provincial accounts committee conducts scrutiny, they have to prepare their budget plans and annual work plans.

“This is a normal process that the government usually follows. Before the provincial accounts committee conducts the scrutiny and presents it to the public for questioning and answering, we must develop and submit our budget plans and annual work plans.

“After that, once it is passed and the provincial accounts committee is satisfied, the budget will move to executive scrutiny for a final review, be forwarded for approval, and gazetted by the ministry,” he said.

However, he said it could best once each Head of the departments take it very seriously.

About fifteen participants representing the government, non-government organizations, community-based officers, and agriculture officers attended the workshop.

The objectives include:

-Presenting the project’s goals, components, scope, and implementation plans.

-Ensuring that stakeholders complement existing provincial development strategies and policies.

-Defining the roles of departments.

-Setting up structures for collaboration, information sharing, and progress monitoring.

-Gather inputs on contextual factors that could affect implementation and plan for mitigation. 

-Secure political and administrative support from provincial leaders for a successful project rollout.

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