The Ministry of Lands and Natural Resources delivers development projects with support from Vanuatu's development partners. These projects invest in safer settlements, better infrastructure and stronger land administration for the people of Vanuatu.
For each project you will find what it aims to achieve, its environmental and social safeguards documents, and how to contact the project team. Documents are published here in line with each development partner's disclosure requirements, so that communities and the public can see how risks are being managed.
World Bank · International Development Association (IDA)
Vanuatu Affordable and Resilient Settlements (VARS) Project
The VARS Project aims to improve access to, and the resilience of, infrastructure and services in selected new and existing settlements, and to strengthen land planning and management for resilient human settlement in Greater Port Vila.
- Implementing agency: Ministry of Lands and Natural Resources, through the VARS Project Management Unit
- Supported by: Ministry of Internal Affairs, Ministry of Infrastructure and Public Utilities, Department of Environmental Protection and Conservation, Shefa Provincial Council and Port Vila City Council
- Where: Greater Port Vila, Efate
- World Bank project ID: P173278
Have a question or concern about a project?
Every project has a grievance mechanism so that anyone affected can ask for information, request a change or raise a complaint, free of charge. For the VARS Project, contact the Help Desk on +678 555 1551 or +678 774 9233, speak to the chief of your settlement, or visit the VARS Help Desk page.