The project purpose is to provide rural communities with greater access to improved social services & to sources of cash income. The overall objectives are to:
- Contribute to decrease tensions between the communities & therefore stabilise the political situation;
- Participate in the improvement of GDP per capita up to the 1999 figures
- Inverse the migration to urban centres, primarily Honiara & therefore decrease the concomitant urban unemployment rates.
Results to be achieved by the consultant:
- Compile annual working plans with budgets
- Staffing plan prepared & implemented
- Adapted & developed micro project appraisal system with selection criteria, timetables for grant awards & monitoring
- Design & implement training & support programme for youth & cultural groups
- Improved project management procedures developed
- Poverty reduction