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Climate change is not a distant threat for Vanuatu—it is a daily reality affecting communities, livelihoods, and futures. While global leaders continue to negotiate climate commitments, ni-Vanuatu people are already experiencing the devastating impacts of rising sea...
Examining the role of culturally grounded approaches in youth justice, this study explores the Vanuatu Cultural Centre's Juvenile Justice Project, which aims to improve the way young offenders are supported by combining customary (kastom) justice with the formal legal...
This dissertation explores how two international development agencies—the Regional Rights Team Community Paralegal Program and the Peace Corps Vanuatu Volunteer Program—support community development initiatives in rural Vanuatu. It examines the strategies these...
Women’s representation in Vanuatu’s parliament remains among the lowest globally, with only six women ever elected. This research explores voter motivations in electing (or not electing) women, highlighting the unspoken rules shaping political decision-making....
The Vanuatu National Strategy for the Development of Statistics (VNSDS) 2024–2028 is a comprehensive framework to facilitate the development of statistics and enhance their utility in Vanuatu. It is an internationally recognised approach that will enable effective...
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Our aim with this guide is to provide the residents of Vanuatu with easily accessible and comprehensible insights into the nation’s financial landscape. We are dedicated to assisting the people of Vanuatu to gain a comprehensive understanding of how the budget setting...
The Global MICS Programme was developed by UNICEF in the 1990s as an international multi-purpose household survey programme to support countries in collecting internationally comparable data on a wide range of indicators on the situation of children and women. MICS...
The review of the implementation of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action in Vanuatu covered the period from 1 June, 2019 – 31 May, 2024. The review addressed progress and challenges towards implementing the 12 critical areas of concern, alongside good...
The Pacific Attitudes Survey: Vanuatu (PAS: Vanuatu) is the second large-scale popular political attitudes survey conducted in the Pacific region, following the first survey in Samoa conducted in late 2020 and early 2021 (Leach et al. 2022). Comprising 191 questions...
1. The Working Group on the Universal Periodic Review, established in accordance with Human Rights Council resolution 5/1, held its thirty-second session from 21 January to 1 February 2019. The review of Vanuatu was held at the 7th meeting, on 24 January 2019. The...
The present report was prepared pursuant to Human Rights Council resolutions 5/1 and 16/21, taking into consideration the periodicity of the universal periodic review and the outcome of the previous review. It is a summary of 15 stakeholders’ submissions for the...
The present report was prepared pursuant to Human Rights Council resolutions 5/1 and 16/21, taking into consideration the outcome of the previous review. It is a compilation of information contained in relevant United Nations documents, presented in a summarized...
1. The Government of the Republic of Vanuatu is pleased to present its Fourth National Report to the Working Group on the Universal Periodic Review (UPR WG) of the Human Rights Council at its 46th Session on 29th April–10 May 2024. 2. The Vanuatu delegation presenting...
Primary production in Vanuatu is also a family business, one in which all members of the family contribute in different ways. Women and men work together in farming crops and livestock, fishing and forestry; although at times their activities are different. Women will...
Social protection aims to safeguard people against financial risks and vulnerability, including those associated with ageing. In recent decades, several countries across the Pacific and Timor-Leste have established government-financed universal old age pensions. In...
A new joint study between the Development Policy Centre and the World Bank, The Gains and Pains of Working Away from Home, was released based on a large survey of those directly affected by labour mobility: Pacific migrant workers, their households and their...
The present strategy is aimed at supporting Vanuatu’s efforts to address e-commerce challenges identified in the last two years and leverage additional resources from the Government and development partners to accelerate e-commerce adoption, increase digital readiness...
The Vanuatu National Agricultural Census (VNAC) was undertaken to gather diverse socio-economic data, empower policy-making, support development goals, boost technical expertise, and foster a sustainable agricultural system A Glimpse into the VNAC's Objectives At the...
The Health Sector Strategy (HSS) aims to transform our health system to be resilient to health threats, and to accelerate progress made to date to improve health outcomes for the people of Vanuatu. Our approach embraces opportunities for innovation and explores...
The Provincial Gender Equality Action Plans are a targeted way to implement and monitor the National Gender Equality Policy that was launched on 24 August 2021. The Provincial Plans were drafted in consultation with provincial stakeholders to develop a set of goals...
In the last week of August 2021, our Prime Minister, Bob Loughman launched the National Gender Equality Policy 2020-2030. The National Gender Equality Policy contains strategic areas addressing ending violence against women and girls, women’s economic empowerment,...
The Household Income and Expenditure Analysis Report presents the analysis of characteristics of demographics, economic activity and more as captured before the outbreak of the COVID-19 global pandemic and effects of Tropical Cyclone Harold. Vanuatu implemented its...
The 2019-2020 NSDP Baseline Survey is an expanded Household Income and Expenditure Survey that collected data critical for informing national economic, social and environmental policy. The NSDP Baseline Survey represents the single largest collection of household...