Reflecting on a journey from climate change vulnerability assessments to the implementation of climate resilience actions: Honiara, Solomon Islands

This chapter showcases a successful journey from an initial vulnerability assessment through to the implementation of urban resilience and climate actions in Honiara, Solomon Islands’ capital in the Melanesian region of the South Pacific. It reflects on the programme of work that has been ongoing since 2012 under UN-Habitat’s ‘Cities and Climate Change Initiative’, culminating in the ‘Climate Resilient Honiara’ project funded by the UNFCCC Adaptation Fund in 2018. The narrative of this journey involves a series of discrete steps that have taken place to identify local climate vulnerabilities and community priorities for action, as well as multi-stakeholder engagement processes which have been critical to the operationalisation of a climate action implementation programme.