Accountability ecosystems political economy analysis: Solomon Islands country study

“Accountable governance that delivers benefits to the people is a challenge in the Solomon Islands, owing to a highly geographically dispersed population with strong ethnic identities, who have little awareness of and access to centralised and poorly financed accountability institutions. The nature of the political settlement in Solomon Islands means that citizens hold their political leaders to account (through the ballot box) for delivering projects and resources to communities through constituency development funds (CDFs), but not for their wider conduct.”