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The Emergent Nature of Ethics in Research: A Pacific Researcher’s Experience

Blogs Date: 04 May 2026

By: Vani Nailumu, Research Coordinator, Balance of Power (a DFAT-funded multi-country initiative working to increase the legitimacy of women’s leadership in the Pacific). Engaging and reflecting on the ethics process early throughout the research process, helps us – as practitioners, and research learners to value critical reflexivity and understand the relational dimensions of producing and contributing […]

Basic but essential: Vanuatu’s proposed political integrity legislation

Blogs Date: 12 Feb 2025

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 […]

Barriers to women’s political participation in Vanuatu

Blogs Date: 12 Feb 2025

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 […]

Women’s political leadership in Vanuatu

Blogs Date: 12 Feb 2025

Source: Devpolicy Blog Jennifer Kalpokas Doan is a part of the management team of the Balance of Power Initiative in the Pacific. Her father was a leader of the independence movement in Vanuatu and, following in her father’s footsteps, Jennifer has been a tireless advocate for developmental and inclusive leadership in her country. As part of International […]