Prime Minister’s Round Table Dialogue Gets Underway
The second of a series of the Prime Minister’s Round Table Dialogue focusing on Agriculture, Energy and Water gets
underway in Honiara today.
This is an initiative of Prime Minister Gordon Darcy Lilo to discuss sensitive issues in an open manner that promotes
accountability.
This consultative process aims to contribute towards sustainable resource management, strengthened resilience towards
climate change and innovative partnerships between development entrepreneurs.
“This Round Table process is an important opportunity to rethink the development path Solomon Islands had been on for
the last 35 years and to project the kind of future the Solomon Islands wants – one that is inclusive and sustainable in
the medium and long terms,” Prime Minister Lilo said in his opening address this morning.
He added that the development path that Solomon Islands had taken in the last 35 years is short term for the most part.
“We need to start rethinking differently about our future and that which we will create for our children,” he added.
This RT process was intended to provide an avenue for policy designers and decision makers, as well as key leaders and
the community at large, to contribute towards practical methodologies; and eventually a platform on advancing,
monitoring and evaluating development in Solomon Islands.
Prime Minister Lilo also reiterated the NCRA Government’s support to sustainable development that is inclusive and will
lift our standard of living from where are today to where we hope to be in the future.
“What we do today to our nation will affect how our children will live in the future. We need to be continuously
reminded of this relationship and the Government is committed to this principle and value sustainable development just
as you are,” Mr Lilo said.
The 3 days Round Table Dialogue which is facilitated by a team consisting of the regional office of the International
Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN ORO), the Secretariat of the Pacific Community (SPC) and the German
Cooperation agency GIZ will end Friday this week.
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