What is SIIVA?
Solomon Islands Integrated Vulnerability and Adaptation Assessment (SIIVA) is a key instrument to identify and prepare a nation and its people to the risks posed by climate change and disaster.

​The IVA recognises that climate change and non-climate change factors should be assessed in a multi-sectoral vulnerabilities framework. It focusses the assessment of exposure, sensitivities and adaptive capacity within a sustainable livelihoods framework.

​This focuses on people’s access to natural, infrastructural, human, finance resources to support their livelihood needs and the institutional structures and processes that influence resource access and use.
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SIIVA Framework Score Card

Methodology
Guided by key vulnerability, disaster risk and sustainable livelihood frameworks, the Solomon Islands IVA utilizes several methods of data collection to carry out the assessment. This has involved desk-top and scientific studies, national consultations, fieldwork, participatory appraisals in selected villages, focus group surveys, and sector-specific surveys. This intranet site is based on the fieldwork and participatory appraisals collected through the IVA survey.

Scoring
The scoring of each component is assessed qualitatively by identified key informants from the community and trained IVA assessors. The assessment tools include focus group discussions, field walk, documentation review and risk mapping.
• A score of 1 indicates community resilience at its lowest

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• A score of 5 indicates community resilience at its highest

SIIVA aims and partners
The Solomon Islands IVA is an integrated, holistic country-wide approach to climate vulnerability assessment and planning led by the Climate Change Division in the Ministry of Environment, Climate Change, Disaster Management  and Meteorology.

​The aim is to improve multi-sector coordination, align support, and optimise the selection of climate change interventions and assess their likely and actual impact.
KEY PARTNERS IN THE SIIVA ​APPROACH INCLUDE:

MECDM
Ministry of Environment, Climate Change, Disaster Management and Meterology: Climate Change Division (CCD), Environment and Conservation Division (ECD), Solomon islands Climate Adaptation Program (SICAP)

MAL
Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock 

MOFR
Ministry of Forestry and Research

MHMS: EHD
Ministry of Health and Medical Services
- Environmental Health Division

MID: CPIU 
Ministry of Infrastructure Development - Central Projects Implementation Unit

MFMR: ESRI
Ministry of Fisheries and Marine Resources - Expanding the Reach of Community Based Resource Management in the Solomon Islands 

MMERE: WRD
Ministry of Mines, Energy and Rural Electrification - Water Resources Division 

MWYCFA
Ministry of Women, Youths, Children and Family Affairs 

Solomon Islands National Statistics Office

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ACOM
Anglican Church of Melanesia

ADRA
Adventist Development and Relief Agency Solomon Islands

Live & Learn
Environmental Education
 
Save the Children
 
SINU - SNRAS
Solomon Islands National University– School of Natural Resources and Applied Sciences
 
World Fish
 
World Vision Solomon Islands

​Solomon Islands Development Trust
MMERE WRD
Ministry of Mines, Energy & Rural Electrification

SIWSAP 
Solomon Islands Water Sector Adaptation

CRISP
Community Resilience to Climate and Disaster Risk in Solomon Islands Project 

SPREP - PEBACC
South Pacific Regional Environment Program Pacific Ecosystems-based Adaptation to Climate Change Project

Malaita Provincial Government
 
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• Stakeholder listing is currently under review and likely to change.