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Basic but essential: Vanuatu’s proposed political integrity legislation

Blog Date: 06 Dec 2023

Source: Devpolicy Blog Vanuatu has had three different prime ministers since 4 September, and weathered several court challenges as politicians and parties battled for parliamentary supremacy. Vanuatu’s citizens have expressed their frustrations via social media, national Press Klab and on the streets, with more than 150 people marching to Parliament House to table a petition from over 1,800 people demanding passage of […]

What’s the case for doubling down on governance efforts in the development program?

Blog Date: 18 May 2023

Source: Development Intelligence Lab Minister Conroy has indicated that better governance is moving up the priority list for Australia’s development program. Our Pulse Check experts named governance as critical to the future of development in the region. And the terms of reference for the new development policy emphasise Australia’s role supporting ‘effective, accountable states’. But in recent years, Australian governance support […]

Barriers to women’s political participation in Vanuatu

Blog Date: 27 Jul 2022

Source: Devpolicy Blog The way politics is played in Melanesian countries has very little national inclusivity about it – in terms of participation by and representation of both men and women at the national level. The role of women is, almost exclusively, to vote, not to actively play the game itself. To use soccer as […]

Decolonisation & Locally Led Development

Blog Date: 01 Nov 2021

The continued demonstration of impact by locally led development programs and organizations like Vanuatu Skills Partnership, Women’s Fund Fiji, The Voice Inc, PNG and the Simbo for Change in the Solomon Islands is also a powerful way of encouraging ourselves – and our allies in development assistance – that it is locally-led change processes, not outsider-led projects – that change the course of our nation-building agenda and our goals of prosperity and equality.
-Jennifer Kalpokas Doan