It was a great surprise and honour that Gordon Peake approached us to be the guinea pigs/first interviewees for Devpol’s inaugural ‘Memorandum of Understanding’ podcast. Gordon and podcast curator Julia Bergin have since encouraged us to buck the ‘literary silences’ and...
Category - Pacific human development
No poverty reduction in Fiji over the last six years
The Fiji Bureau of Statistics (FBS) released its preliminary report on the 2019-2020 Household Income and Expenditure Survey (HIES) on 8 February. The survey is based on a representative sample of 6,000 households and was conducted from February 2019 to February 2020. Thus the 2019-2020 HIES report...
Building adaptive capacity through Pacific labour mobility
Labour migration is considered an important pathway for supporting economic development in countries of origin. In recent years, labour migration has been further positioned as a response to changing environmental conditions in places of high climate risk, such as the Pacific Islands region...
On the road to reduce NCDs in Nauru
Since the outbreak of the coronavirus in early 2020, COVID-19 has become the most attention-grabbing disease in the world. Measures to contain the pandemic are breaking families apart, halting development and making our lives more challenging. Yet other diseases are still impacting patients...
How to get from response to recovery in the Pacific
As of 24 August 2020, six countries in the Pacific Island Countries and Territories (PICTs) had...
APTC and the pandemic
Recent months have shown us more than ever the need to be flexible and responsive, to pivot when...
USP, Pacific regional institutions and governance
The recent University of the South Pacific (USP) Council meeting to address governance issues...
Collaborating for menstrual health rights in the Pacific
Each day 300 million women and adolescent girls menstruate, and those women and girls have the...
Suffering in Vanuatu: COVID-19, Cyclone Harold and a distracted...
In late April, Good Will Hunters’ Rachel Mason Nunn sat down with Dan McGarry to talk about...
COVID-19 and emergency care in the Pacific
An effective health response to the COVID-19 pandemic requires public health, epidemiological...