by Gregoire Nimbtik, Director for Department of Strategic Policy, Planning and Aid Coordination, Vanuatu

1. PACIFIC RISK RESILIENCE PROGRAMME
REGIONAL KNOWLEDGE EXCHANGE
Philippines 2-4 October 2017

2. Objective: Risk-informing Development
Time-frame: 2013-2018
Countries: Fiji, Tonga, Solomon Is, Vanuatu
Implementation: UNDP (Pacific and Asia)
Donor Partners: DFAT and SIDA
Partners: CBI, PIPSO (private sector)
Pacific Risk Resilience Programme

3. Theory of Change

4. Vanuatu 2030 | The People's Plan
Vanuatu 2030: The People’s Plan

5. Budget Formulation
NSDP
Sector
Strategies
Corporate Plans
Business Plans
The National Development
Budget
ALIGNMENT
‘Bottom-up’ planning
allows Ministries and
Departments to find
the best way to align
their plans with the
NSDP

6. National Development Budget

8. Formulation & Execution
 Horizontal: risk indicators established for tracking
NSDP roll out
 Private sector engagement via Chamber of Comm
 Vertical: Risk-informed planning guidelines
 Diagonal: Agr. Risk Resilience Unit set-up: for risk-
informing budget submissions and implementation
Approval and Evaluation
 Auditor General: risk to be included into
performance measurement framework
Budget Process
via ‘development pathways”

9. • Gender-responsive budgeting
decision by Council of Ministers.
All sectors are now directed to
gender mainstream into their
budget submissions.
• Gender and Protection cluster
for disaster situations and risk-
informing development
Gender and Social Inclusion

10. Key Messages
1. The Budget process: will help us take this approach to
scale
2. Working ‘from within’: enhances ownership and
sustainability
3. Partnerships are key, and more possible when working
through the pathways
4. Agenda 2030: we can apply the experiences of risk-
informing development to the localization agenda

11. Tenk yu tumas!
gnimbtik@vanuatu.gov.vu
moortaza.jiwanji@undp.org