Disclosure of the PROPER documents.

The Ministry of Fisheries and Marine Resources has been a recipient of a World bank funded Program, namely the Pacific Islands Regional Oceanscape Program (PROP) with a series of projects implemented in the Forum Fisheries Agency (FFA) and four countries including Solomon Islands.

Solomon Islands PROP ended on 30 September 2021. MFMR has since been approved a second phase of the Project, anticipated to start in July 2022. PROP II or the Pacific Islands Regional Oceanscape Program for Economic Recovery and Resilience will focus in the areas of offshore and inshore fisheries sustainable development and management with the implementation supported by a Project Management Unit (PMU) co-located with MFMR.

A design process of PROPER is nearing its completion and with a mandatory process of developing and disclosing the Environmental and Social Safeguard documents for both the Project Preparation Phase and the PROPER itself. The documents consists of the following:

Project instruments