TRANSPARENCY INTERNATIONAL VANUATU recently visited the island of Ambae to inform the people there about the National Right To Information Law which which became an official in Vanuatu on 6 February 2017.
Photos: Right To Information Law Community Awareness – Malekula Island
A Team from Transparency International Vanuatu was recently on the island of Malekula conducting community awareness’s on the Right To Information Law from the 2nd to the 9th of April 2017.
The trip to the island of Malekula was made possible through funding support from the Pacific Leadership Program (PLP).
These are a few of the photos from that activity.
Photos taken on a phone camera.
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This week the TIV Awareness Team has collaborated with the Ministry of Youth and Sports Development to deliver Civic Education, Anti-Corruption, and Right To Information Law information to the over 200 youth volunteers who helped out to deliver the National Games in 2016 hosted by Luganville City.
TIV Advocates In North West Malekula Schools
Transparency International Vanuatu continues to inform schools on the island of Malekula about the Right To Information (RTI) Law.
Today the Transparency International Vanuatu Team continued its awareness program to north west Malekula and visited Unmet College and Brenwei Junior Secondary School.
These were the schools, in the north west area, that took part in the consultation process in 2016 including Unmet community.
Many students will wonder “but how will the RTI Law benefit us?”
The Right To Information Law is able to assist students who are doing their research. Because whatever age category you are you have the right to access accurate information. It will largely help students educational development.
Furthermore, the RTI Law is established to “promote transparency, accountability and national development by empowering and educating the public to understand and act upon their right to information and to increase public participation in governance.”
Overall, this is a law that will fight corruption for the people. This is the ‘The Peoples Law’, and they deserve to know about it. This Transparency International Vanuatu’s current mission – Anywhere. Anytime. We Will Inform The People.
“The Story Behind Vanuatu’s Right To Information Law” – Film Show In Malekula Schools.
Video Show at Norsup Secondary School, Malekula. They are watching Transparency International Vanuatu’s latest short film titled “The Story Behind Vanuatu’s Right To Information Law”.
The purpose is to inform how and why the Right To Information Law came about and how, when implemented, it will dramatically change how we access information in Vanuatu.
The film will be uploaded soon on Transparency’s YouTube Channel.
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TIV Continues Right To Information Law Awareness Law To Malekula Island
A Transparency International Vanuatu Team is currently on the island of Malekula to conduct Right To Information Law (RTI) Awareness on the island
Informing The People – Download Your Newsletter Issue 1 2017
FROM 2015 TO THE END OF 2016 Transparency International Vanuatu (TIV) was heavily involved in the Right To Information (RTI) Bill nationwide community consultation.
Working in partnership with the Governments Right To Information Unit and the Media Association of Vanuatu the consultation process on the Right To Information Bill reached over 15,000 people throughout the 15 main islands of Vanuatu and including some of the smaller islands with 400 to 1,000 people.
The consultation process did not only visit the main centers on the islands but ventured further into villages that have never been part of any consultation process.
A lot of people raised concerns that the current laws in Vanuatu that directly affect people at the grassroots level could put a lot of confused people in prison, because by not being part of the consultation process and with no opportunity to learn and educate themselves of the laws that govern Vanuatu we are creating a vulnerable generation that will have to learn from mistakes rather than be informed to avoid mistakes.
The Right To Information Bill was unanimously passed by Parliament in November of 2016, and it officially became the Right To Information Law on the 6th of February 2017. Regarded as the ‘Peoples Law’ it is important out to reach out to the people who had been part of the consultation process, and to inform them of the becoming of the Right To Information Law and how it will be implemented.
It is also important to inform other people that had not been part of the consultation process because they also have the right to know.
So from the 15th to the 17th of March 2017 a TIV Team conducted and distributed RTI Law information throughout the island of Tongoa. And on the same month from the 19th to the 25th the same program was conducted around the island of Tanna.
This newsletter highlights the activities that were carried on these two islands including photos and links.
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