James Meimana works with the Network for Indigenous People in the Solomons (NIPS) as a Project Manager. He is also employed as a Senior Compliance Officer at the Ministry of Fisheries for the Solomon Islands. He is currently working on several projects, including preparing a community-based protocol for food security and gender rights, exchanging knowledge between the mining companies and the local communities, land stewardship and, food security and climate change.
"I have been attending training from other organizations, but I cannot remember coming across another effective training such as DTP, I made new friends from PNG, West Papua, Fiji, Cambodia, India, Malaysia, Timor-Leste and Indonesia. We stayed in the same hotel, we exchanged information, we had some fun together." |