Strengthening capacity in the agriculture and land-use as well as energy sectors in Solomon Islands for enhanced transparency in implementation and monitoring of Solomon Islandâ€™s Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) To strengthen Solomon Island's technical and institutional capacity for compliance by 2025 with the Enhanced Transparency Framework (ETF) of the Paris Agreement on Climate Change to track mitigation and adaptation actions of Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) priority sectors focusing on agriculture, land-use change, energy and waste sectors. Note: Disbursement data provided is cumulative and covers disbursement made by the project Agency. As a signatory to the Paris agreement, Solomon Islands is committed to carrying out both adaptation and mitigation activities by maintaining ETF, with a view to advancing climate action in the country. The CBIT project will advance efficient tracking, monitoring, reporting of climate change adaptation and mitigation in the AFOLU and other sectors with durable and robust interventions on coordination, and technical capacity building in adaptation and mitigation. Currently, the country has no reliable database or data-management system for GHG inventories of AFOLU and other sectors, and has limited technical capacity to assess GHG removals and emissions for complex sectors like AFOLU. Hence, it is anticipated the CBIT project will benefit the country’s social and environmental sectors by building the capacity of government officials and tracking progress against NDC priority mitigations, adaptation, and monitoring the climate finance in the country.Apart from the NDC, the project will also advance the goals and targets of the national plans and policies such as National Climate Change Policy: 2012 - 2017[1], National Energy Policy (2014)[2], National Agriculture and Livestock Sector Policy (2015-2019)[3], National Agriculture and Livestock Sector Policy (2009-2014)[4], and National Development Strategy (NDS) (2016-2035)[5]. Therefore, the major goals and activities of the GEF-funded CBIT project are highly aligned with national environment and climate change-related national action plans. This project will provide access to data and information used for multi-sector GHG inventories that contribute to climate change mitigation and adaptation. National stakeholders will have access to the data used for national and sub-national GHG monitoring, and will be able to monitor their performance using robust data and information. GHG data archiving and sharing with other national platforms will enhance the consistency of the data used for national climate change mitigation and adaptation, and contribute to integrated approaches and solutions.An appropriate transparency framework will generate multiple social, economic and environmental co-benefits, including human capacity, local and national institutional strengthening, cost-effective national budgeting and planning, reduced vulnerability of food systems, and resilient natural resources and ecosystems on which food systems depend. Through improved and more transparent data, the project will also support increased local, regional and national investments, and improved decision making. Activities and institutional arrangements such as required NGO and civil society representation on the PSC will ensure that the project directly benefits all stakeholders by improving the quality of information related to climate change in the AFOLU and other relevant sectors. Timely, accessible, high-quality information will enable better decision making and planning, and increase transparency to improve governance and accountability.[1]Solomon Islands National Climate Change Policy: 2012 – 2017. https://www.refworld.org/pdfid/5b430f4c4.pdf[2]Solomon Island National Energy Policy (2014). https://policy.asiapacificenergy.org/sites/default/files/volume1_solomon_islands_national_energy_policy.pdf[3]https://pafpnet.spc.int/images/articles/policy-bank/solomon/Solomons-Islands-NALSP_Final%20Draft_151118.pdf[4]https://pafpnet.spc.int/pafpnet/attachments/article/solomon-islands/National-Agriculture-and-Livestock-Sector-Policy.pdf[5]https://www.adb.org/sites/default/files/linked-documents/cobp-sol-2015-2017-sd.pdf