What works in Solomon Islands

4 evaluated practices · All catalogues

Evidence snapshot for Solomon Islands

Solomon Islands has experienced significant telecommunications and digital infrastructure development over the past 15 years. Opening the mobile market to competition cut call prices roughly 60% and expanded telecom access from 11% to 54% of the population by 2013, while the December 2019 Coral Sea Cable System and domestic fibre network coincided with internet penetration rising from ~11% (2017) to 42.5% (2025). In parallel, Markets for Change has built women's leadership and market infrastructure in five marketplace sites where 75–90% of vendors are women, though the evidence shows this programme's formal reach remains concentrated in regulated markets rather than the larger unregulated community marketplace sector. The practices do not quantify longer-term poverty, employment or gender equality outcomes from these infrastructure and market governance interventions.

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Evaluation evidence +0.67

Carbon — sequestration / storage, evidenced +0.595

Transferability / replicability +0.396

Governance, certification & transferability +0.306

Demonstrated reach +0.265

Curator validation +0.25

Effectiveness +0.189

Sustainability +0.186

Impact on gender equality +0.173

Biodiversity — conservation / improvement, evidenced +0.118

Gender-mainstreaming embedding +0.098

Fire resilience — risk reduction, evidenced -0.099

Water & soil — retention, infiltration, erosion control -0.205

Documented learning -0.224

Efficiency -0.517

Evaluated outcomes -0.837

Transferable practices from elsewhere that address this place's gaps.