BY LORETTA B MANELE
A survey on “national energy planning” by the Ministry of Mines, Energy and Rural Electrification (MMERE) and UNDP really needs everyone’s effort says, Raluca Eddon, Deputy Resident Representative, UNDP in Solomon Islands.
She voiced this at a panel discussion on “Pathways towards better electric power availability, affordability, and sustainability” last Friday at the Heritage Park Hotel.
Currently underway, this survey as MMERE stated in a statement is to gather vital information for national energy planning.
Speaking about the survey, Eddon said there is good news and bad news.
She explained that the good news is that so far, they have reached about 10,000 people.
Eddon said while this is a significant number, their ambition is much bigger than this and they will not give up until the last moment.
The bad news on the other hand, is they have another 90,000 to go.
“We really need each and every one of you to make this effort, to take the survey, take the QR codes to your families, to your communities, to your villages, everywhere and anywhere that you can think of, any kind of networks,” she said.
Eddon mentioned that earlier on in the morning, they were talking about different possibilities, creative ways in which they can get people to answer.
“I hope that all of you have taken the survey, but if you haven’t, today is your chance,” she said.
Eddon mentioned that in the survey, you can either answer to questions in your name as an individual, as a community or as the head of a household.
Most importantly, she stressed that by taking this survey, it is a chance for people of Solomon Islands to shape policy.
“Perhaps, most important message is that this is a chance, really an extraordinary chance, I think, for the people of Solomon Islands to shape policy,” she said.
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