The Pacific Innovation Forum for Climate and Environment (PIFCE) 1st - 3rd July, 2026

Tidy Haus Cleaners & Babysitting Service

Brief overview

We are a professional cleaning service delivering reliable, high-quality solutions for residential and commercial clients. Our trained and insured team maintains consistent standards through regular quality checks and attention to detail. We offer services including routine home cleaning, office cleaning on weekly contractual arrangements, deep cleaning, upholstery care, and vehicle detailing. We take an eco-friendly approach, using safe, sustainable methods, and also produce our own eco-friendly cleaning products. Customer satisfaction is at the core of our operations, and we work closely with clients to meet their specific needs, creating clean, safe, and welcoming environments.

Your organisation’s goals

Our core environmental focus is the development and use of eco-friendly cleaning products that reduce harm to people and the planet. We produce natural solutions such as our eggshell-based scrubs, which repurpose waste materials into effective cleaning agents, helping divert waste from landfills and supporting a circular approach. Our lemon and lime multipurpose spray is made from natural, biodegradable ingredients that minimize chemical pollution and reduce carbon emissions associated with conventional cleaning products.

How is this solution innovative?

Our solution is innovative because it transforms locally available waste and natural resources into effective, eco-friendly cleaning products that replace imported, chemical-based alternatives. By converting discarded eggshells into cleaning scrubs and formulating citrus-based multipurpose sprays, we introduce a practical circular approach that reduces waste while creating value. Unlike conventional cleaning systems that rely heavily on manufactured chemicals and single-use packaging, our model integrates product creation, sustainability, and service delivery into one streamlined process. This reduces environmental impact at multiple points—waste generation, product sourcing, and end use—while maintaining high cleaning performance. The innovation also lies in its local adaptability and scalability. It is designed to work within resource-limited environments, using simple, replicable methods that can be adopted by communities without requiring advanced infrastructure. At the same time, it shifts cleaning practices toward safer, non-toxic alternatives, directly addressing both environmental and public health concerns. By combining waste repurposing, natural formulations, and practical application in everyday cleaning services, our approach offers a unique, sustainable alternative that challenges traditional cleaning industry norms.

What are your organisation’s goals?

Restoring and Conserving Pacific Island Ecosystems: Land, Ocean, Biodiversity & Circular Economy Solutions;Resilient and Low Carbon Pacific Communities and Economic Development: Protecting Lives, Livelihoods & Enabling a Just and Inclusive Transition.

How can the innovation be replicated and scaled up in other PICTs?

This innovation can be replicated across other Pacific Island Countries and Territories (PICTs) by leveraging local partnerships, simple production methods, and community-based models. Institutional partnerships with local governments, environmental agencies, and NGOs can support awareness, training, and integration into national waste reduction and climate strategies. Collaborations with schools and community groups can also help drive behavior change and promote eco-friendly practices.

The model requires relatively low startup costs, making it suitable for micro-financing, small business grants, or donor-funded climate initiatives. Social enterprise structures can also be adopted, where product sales and cleaning services sustain ongoing operations while creating local employment opportunities.

Capacity building is key to scaling. Training programs can equip communities with the skills to collect, process, and transform waste materials like eggshells into cleaning products, as well as produce natural citrus-based solutions using locally available ingredients. Standardized guidelines can ensure product quality and safety across different locations.

Because the approach relies on readily available resources and simple techniques, it can be easily adapted to different island contexts. This makes it a practical, cost-effective solution for reducing waste, lowering environmental impact, and promoting healthier communities across the Pacific.

How is the solution cost‑effective and affordable in the context of Pacific Island Countries and Territories (PICTs)?

Yes, our solution is highly cost-effective and affordable for end users across Pacific Island Countries and Territories (PICTs). By using locally available materials such as discarded eggshells and natural citrus ingredients, we significantly reduce reliance on imported, chemical-based cleaning products, which are often expensive due to shipping and supply constraints.

For households and communities, our products provide a low-cost alternative that is safe, reusable, and long-lasting, reducing the need for frequent purchases. For MSMEs and local businesses, adopting our eco-friendly products and cleaning services lowers operational costs over time while also supporting healthier work environments. Our contractual cleaning services are competitively priced and designed to suit regular budgets, especially for offices and both small and large enterprises.

From a local government perspective, the model supports waste reduction and can help lower public spending on waste management and environmental clean-up. The simplicity of production also means minimal equipment and training costs, making it accessible for small-scale entrepreneurs and community groups.

Overall, by combining low production costs, reduced dependence on imports, and long-term health and environmental benefits, our solution remains practical and affordable for a wide range of users in PICTs.

Locations (country, island, or community) where this solution has been piloted and/or implemented

This solution has been piloted in Port Vila on the island of Efate. It is currently implemented through residential, office, and vehicle cleaning services, using our locally made eco-friendly products. The pilot focuses on reducing waste, lowering chemical use, and providing safer, more affordable cleaning alternatives for the local community.

Learn more:

www.tidyhauscleaners.com

Abyss Vanuatu Ocean Institute

About

Abyss Vanuatu Ocean Institute (AVOI) is a science-led, community-driven initiative advancing marine restoration, climate resilience and sustainable blue economy development in Vanuatu. Through its Havannah Harbour pilot, AVOI integrates Reef Ball deployment, artificial reef design, drone-enabled monitoring and workforce training via the Vanuatu Ocean Rangers. The model combines innovation and local stewardship to restore ecosystems, strengthen biodiversity and support climate adaptation. By linking technology, community engagement and practical delivery, AVOI is developing a scalable national framework that helps translate ocean policy into measurable outcomes, creating jobs, building local capability and supporting long-term environmental resilience across island communities.

Abyss Vanuatu Ocean Institute (AVOI) delivers integrated, science-led services focused on marine restoration, climate resilience and sustainable environmental management. Its core services include the design and deployment of Reef Ball artificial reef systems and managed vessel reefs to restore degraded marine habitats, enhance biodiversity and support fisheries recovery. AVOI also provides drone-enabled monitoring and survey services, using autonomous and manned systems to track climate impacts, support conservation planning and improve data-driven decision-making across marine and coastal environments.

A central component is the development of the Vanuatu Ocean Rangers program, which builds local workforce capability in restoration, monitoring, conservation and environmental stewardship. AVOI also supports Marine Protected Area (MPA) design, ecological baseline assessments and long-term monitoring frameworks aligned with national ocean policy objectives.

Through community engagement, eco-tourism integration and applied innovation, AVOI connects environmental protection with economic opportunity. Its Havannah Harbour pilot serves as a scalable model to deliver practical climate adaptation, strengthen ecosystem resilience and enable coordinated, whole-of-government environmental outcomes across Vanuatu.

The Innovation

One of AVOI’s key innovations is the integration of the Vanuatu Ocean Ranger program with locally delivered marine restoration systems, including Reef Ball fabrication and deployment. This model combines workforce development, community engagement and practical restoration into a single, scalable framework designed for island environments.

Through structured Vanuatu Ocean Ranger Camps, over a 3 day period AVOI identifies and trains local Ni-Vanuatu participants in marine conservation, Scientific diving, restoration techniques, monitoring and stewardship. One aspect of the Rangers responsibilities is to support the fabrication and deployment of Reef Ball artificial reef systems using locally sourced materials and regional supply chains, significantly reducing costs and increasing local ownership. The approach enables degraded reef systems to be restored while simultaneously building in-country capability and employment pathways, guided by our National AVOI Play Book at its core.

This innovation directly addresses climate change by strengthening reef resilience, supporting fisheries recovery and enhancing coastal protection against storm surge and extreme weather events. It also improves ecosystem health, which is critical for food security and long-term adaptation in Pacific Island Countries and Territories (PICTs).

What makes this model particularly relevant for PICTs is its practicality and scalability. It does not rely on high-cost external inputs but instead builds local capacity, integrates customary stewardship and aligns with government policy frameworks. The system can be replicated across islands using a consistent training, deployment and governance approach.

Supported by drone-enabled monitoring and AI self learning data collection, AVOI’s model provides a cost-effective, community-led solution that connects restoration, climate resilience and sustainable economic opportunity in a way that is both locally grounded and nationally scalable.

How is this solution innovative?

AVOI’s solution is innovative because it integrates community workforce development, marine restoration and applied technology into a single, scalable delivery model tailored for island environments. Rather than treating conservation, employment and climate adaptation as separate challenges, AVOI combines them through the Vanuatu Ocean Ranger program and locally delivered Reef Ball restoration systems. This creates a practical pathway where communities are directly trained and employed to restore and monitor their own marine ecosystems. The model also incorporates drone-enabled monitoring and emerging AI-supported survey systems to improve data collection, ecological tracking and rapid response capability, including in remote and disaster-affected areas. This blend of low-cost, locally sourced restoration methods with advanced monitoring technology allows for both accessibility and scientific rigour. What makes the approach particularly innovative is its focus on scalability and replication. By developing a standardised training, deployment and governance framework, AVOI provides a repeatable model based on a National AVOI Play book that can be adapted across Pacific Island Countries, helping translate policy into measurable, community-led climate and environmental outcomes.

How can the innovation be replicated and scaled up in other PICTs

AVOI’s model is designed for replication across Pacific Island Countries and Territories (PICTs) through a structured, partnership-driven and capacity-focused approach. Following an initial two-year proof-of-concept in Vanuatu, AVOI will develop a refined National PICT Playbook outlining standard operating procedures (SOPs) and safe work method statements (SWMS), delivered in both English and Bislama, with visual and pictorial elements to ensure accessibility across diverse communities.

Scaling will be enabled through institutional partnerships with government agencies, regional bodies, scientific partners such as UTS, and local stakeholders, supported by blended financing models including public-private partnerships, eco-tourism revenue streams and conservation funding.

A key component is the development of a simplified, citizen science-based survey framework focused on key indicator species. This approach lowers technical barriers, enabling participation from communities with varying levels of formal education while strengthening data collection and stewardship.

By combining local workforce training, accessible science, and standardised systems, AVOI creates a practical, low-cost model that can be adapted regionally, empowering communities while supporting climate resilience, biodiversity restoration and sustainable economic development across PICTs.

Is your solution cost‑effective and affordable in the context of Pacific Island Countries and Territories (PICTs)?

AVOI’s solution is designed to be highly cost-effective and affordable for communities, local governments and small operators across PICTs. A core principle of the model is the use of locally available materials, including aggregates from regional quarries and, where appropriate, surplus or repurposed government materials. This significantly reduces construction and deployment costs for Reef Ball systems and associated infrastructure.

From an end-user perspective, the model lowers financial barriers by building local capability through the Vanuatu Ocean Ranger Camp Initiative and subsequent program, reducing reliance on external expertise and enabling communities to deliver and maintain restoration activities themselves. The integration of eco-tourism also creates revenue-generating opportunities that can help offset ongoing costs.

Affordability is further strengthened through the development of a streamlined cross-departmental approval pathway within the AVOI Playbook. By providing clear guidance on site selection, environmental considerations and standardised processes, local governments can reduce delays, duplication and administrative costs, enabling more efficient project delivery at scale.

Together, these elements create a low-cost, accessible and sustainable model that is practical for widespread adoption across PICTs.

Where is this being piloted?

AVOI’s solution is being piloted in Vanuatu, with Havannah Harbour (North-West Efate) identified as the primary proof-of-concept site, supported by a permanent operational and training hub at Lot 149, Lapita Estate. While over 1,000,000 Reef Balls have been deployed globally across more than 80 countries, this will be the first integrated deployment of this system in Vanuatu. The pilot combines initial baseline surveys across 12 regions using Reef Life Survey (RLS Methodology) prior to any deployments. Once 6 of the sites are selected for deployment we will deploy 50m x 10m of Reef Ball habitat restoration—designed as a 500+ year solution—, allowing us to. Continue to conduct 6 monthly replicated surveys in exactly the same 50m transects to demonstrate recruitment changes providing proof of concept. Together with the Vanuatu Ocean Ranger program, which trains and employs local Ni-Vanuatu to deliver restoration, monitoring and stewardship, supported by drone-enabled surveying, community engagement and eco-tourism integration. The approach is intentionally holistic, linking marine restoration, climate resilience, workforce development, local supply chains and government coordination into a single, place-based model. The Havannah Harbour pilot will be used to refine systems, demonstrate measurable outcomes and establish a scalable framework for national and regional replication across PICTs, through the development of our AVOI National Playbook, helping guide replication across all our satellite sites. Initial training will be conducted through AVOI Headquarters in Havannah Harbour, with Ranger selection conducted through a multi-day conservation camp where participant will all leave with new knowledge and appreciation for the terrestrial and marine environment, and Ocean Rangers selected for employment within the AVOI team at the conclusion of the camps.