On the issue of mainstreaming gender funding within the Government system, th...

On the issue of mainstreaming gender funding within the Government system, that is a work in progress. I am pleased to say that baseline data have been established, allowing small women's machinery in the country to develop strategies to enhance gender capacity within the national system. Having said that, the challenge ahead is huge. The social-system structures, institutions and values of Solomon Islands are centred on our natural resources. Eighty per cent of Solomon Islands land is customarily owned and undocumented. Traditional land operates under three land-tenure systems: matrilineal, patrilineal and chiefly.