Community Governance and Justice in Solomon Islands Part 2: Signs of Success in the CGGM Project

Abstract

In Part 1 of this three-part In Brief series, we established that the design of the Community Governance and Grievance Management (CGGM) Project met the needs, both historical and contemporary, of rural Solomon Islanders as they saw them. In Part 2, we look more closely at what ‘success’ meant for the the citizens of the 25 jurisdictions that participated in the impact assessment. We show that while citizens in only three of these jurisdictions were near unanimously supportive of the project, there were also notable changes in the local justice situation in participating communities in the other 22 locations, whose citizens showed less enthusiasm for the project.