FOR THE LAST few months Transparency International Vanuatu (TIV) and the Pacific Leadership Program (PLP) had been working in partnership with the Executive of the Vaturisu Council of Chiefs to train chiefs around the island of Efate and its offshore islands on the Adaptive Leadership theory…
“This is a great workshop,” expressed a Port Vila Municipality Councillor who was one the few female candidates who had secured a seat at the Port Vila Municipal Council under the reserved seats program…
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.
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.
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.
A Transparency International Vanuatu Team is currently on the island of Malekula to conduct Right To Information Law (RTI) Awareness on the island
Vaturisu Chiefs Are Positive On Adaptive Leadership Training
“Implementation of the RTI law will not succeed without good record keeping”, he said…
What we are doing during this 16 Days of Activism?
The Government’s Right To Information Unit, the Media Asosiesen Blong Vanuatu (MAV) and Transparency International Vanuatu (TIV) are visiting communities in Port Vila to inform the them about the Right To Information Bill that was recently passed by Parliament and how the implementation phase will roll out.
Why?
The Right To Information Law is the Peoples Law, therefore the people must be informed of how, and why, they need to use it.
Advising people that a powerful law like the Right To Information Law would just be another piece of paper unless it is used.
Lastly, now that the Right To Information Bill has passed, the people deserve the right to know what will happen next in its implementation phase.
The team spoke to over 990 people and informed them on the contents of the Bill as well as how the Bill will impact their lives when it becomes law
We are Transparency Vanuatu, established in Vanuatu in 2001 to combat corruption across all levels of society..
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