Planned Areas for Action
Area of Action 6
Strategy for preventing and/or reducing violence in Pacific communities
Responsibility
| Lead | Other |
|---|---|
| Ministry of Pacific Island Affairs (MPIA) and MSD |
FVFG (sub-group to be established) |
Action details
Develop draft strategic directions for preventing and/or reducing violence in Pacific communities, based on the outcomes of consultations with Pacific communities, and conduct a nation-wide fono for Pacific peoples to come together and discuss and identify a way forward.
Link to goals and objectives
Goal 4. Objective 4(2)(ii).
Timeframe
A number of consultations with Pacific communities have already been completed as part of the review of family violence prevention in New Zealand, the Blueprint for the Care and Protection Sector, the Agenda for Children and the Pacific Capacity Building initiatives. The collation of this information and development of draft strategic directions can be started early 2002 and a strategy developed by June 2003.
Rationale
There is currently no formal strategy for preventing and/or reducing violence in Pacific communities that has been endorsed by ethnic-specific Pacific communities. Strategies for preventing and/or reducing violence within diverse Pacific communities are more likely to be effective if they are designed and owned by Pacific communities. Conducting a nation-wide fono to bring together Pacific peoples to discuss family violence issues and to identify and develop ethnic-specific solutions to preventing and/or reducing violence within diverse Pacific communities is viewed as an important process, and was specifically raised by the Pacific focus groups at the community workshops.
Preliminary targets
To produce a strategy for preventing and/or reducing violence in Pacific communities, based on the outcomes of consultation with Pacific communities, by June 2003.
Preliminary measures
- Information already gathered through consultations with Pacific communities is collated and reflected in the strategy.
- A nation-wide fono of diverse Pacific communities is conducted to discuss family violence issues and the outcomes of the fono are reflected in the strategy.
- Issues and gaps and initiatives to address them are clearly identified and justified.
