Justice interventions in Solomon Islandsover the last decade have focused largely on assistingHoniarabased state institutions in the form of a variety ofcapacity-building programs. This has included a heavyreliance on expatriate expertise positioned in centraljustice agencies. The National Judiciary has benefitedsignificantly from this support, although to date the directeffects of increased assistance have not been felt in mostparts of the country. In part this has been because of aheavy focus on processing the vast amount of criminal casesemanating from the 1998-2003 period of civil conflict,locally referred to as the tension. Matters related to thetension have occupied the time and resources ofHoniara-based justice institutions, particularly the courts.As tension investigations and trials have subsided there hasbeen a growing recognition of the limits of thecapacity-building approaches adopted to date (see Cox,Duituturaga and Scheye 2012). Government, together withdonor partners, has been grappling with future spaces andmodalities of support. Since 2010, the World Bank Justicefor the Poor (J4P) program has supported theJusticeDelivered Locally(JDL) initiative of the Solomon Islands Ministry of Justice and Legal Affairs. The JDL initiative isaimed at reinvigorating local-level justice services to meetthe demands of the 80 percent of the population livingoutside the capital, Honiara.
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