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Women and climate change in Vanuatu, Pacific Islands Region

Gender, Place & Culture, 2023
While world leaders met in Egypt in 2022 for the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Conference of the Parties (COP 27) and danced around the need for critical global action on climate change, ni-Vanuatu (Vanuatu’s citizens ...
M. Alston, S. Fuller, Nikita Kwarney
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Comparison of strategies for daily surveillance of international travellers quarantined in Vanuatu, October–December 2020

Western Pacific Surveillance and Response, 2022
Objective: To prevent importation of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) to Vanuatu, since March 2020, all travellers to the country have been required to complete a 14-day quarantine in a government-designated facility. A short message service (SMS, or “
Caroline van Gemert, Wendy Williams, Joanne Mariasua, Debbie Fred, Matthew Cornish, Len Tarivonda, Posikai Samuel Tapo, Vincent Atua, Obed Manwo, Philippe Guyant, Lola Iavro, Geoff Clark   +11 more
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Challenges to implementation and strengthening of initial COVID-19 surveillance in Vanuatu: January–April 2020

Western Pacific Surveillance and Response, 2021
The Pacific island nation of Vanuatu is vulnerable to emerging infectious diseases, including epidemics and pandemics; chronic food and water insecurity; and natural hazards, including cyclones, earthquakes, tsunamis, landslides and flooding.
Wendy Williams, Caroline van Gemert, Joanne Mariasua, Edna Iavro, Debbie Fred, Johnny Nausien, Obed Manwo, Vincent Atua, George Junior Pakoa, Annie Tassiets, Tessa B Knox, Michael Buttsworth, Geoff Clark, Matthew Cornish, Posikai Samuel Tapo, Len Tarivonda, Philippe Guyant   +16 more
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The Role of Traditional Knowledge in Building Adaptive Capacity for Climate Change: Perspectives from Vanuatu

Weather, Climate, and Society, 2017
Ainka A Granderson
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Controlling Fictions: Methodological Paradoxes and Political Dead Ends of the New Melanesian Ethnography

Наукові записки Наукма: Історія і теорія культури, 2021
The paper contributes to the anthropological debate surrounding the methodology of the New Melanesian Ethnography and the model of the dividual personhood it is based on. The author introduces a disciplinary and historical context in which the theory was
Yevhenii Osiievskyi
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“I'm scared to talk about it”: exploring experiences of incontinence for people with and without disabilities in Vanuatu, using mixed methods

The Lancet Regional Health. Western Pacific, 2021
Background: Incontinence is the involuntary loss of urine and/or faeces. It is stigmatised and can reduce quality of life. People with incontinence require water, sanitation, hygiene (WASH) and incontinence products.
Jane Wilbur, Chloe Morrison, Luke Bambery, Jamie Tanguay, Sally Baker, Philip Sheppard, Jeanine Shem, Judith Iakavai, Relvie Poilapa, Islay Mactaggart   +9 more
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Menstrual hygiene management in disasters: the concerns, needs, and preferences of women and girls in Vanuatu

Waterlines, 2021
In disaster settings, women and girls face additional challenges in safely managing menstruation with confidence and dignity. Assessing women’s and girls’ needs and preferences at country level prior to a disaster assists Red Cross National Societies ...
S. Downing, Sandrine Benjimen, Lisa Natoli, V. Bell   +3 more
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Understanding Judicial Independence in Vanuatu [PDF]

, 2020
This paper is intended to fill a gap in the literature concerning the Vanuatu judiciary, as this topic is rarely addressed other than in reports by international non-government organisations, such as Transparency International and its local chapter ...
Forsyth, Miranda
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Multilingualism in Vanuatu: Four case studies

International Journal of Bilingualism, 2021
Each of the 65 inhabited islands of Vanuatu hosts its own unique linguistic environment in which varying degrees of multilingualism are found.
M. Walworth, Amy Dewar, Thomas Ennever, L. Takau, Iveth Rodríguez   +4 more
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‘Most nurses in the rural or remote health clinics run away from their job due to no remote allowances and poor working equipment and environment'. Health professional leaders’ perception of shortages in the nursing workforce in underserved areas in Vanuatu

Rural and Remote Health, 2022
Introduction: Health professional leaders are key informants working at senior levels in various health facilities in the areas of policies and planning processes, and human resources.
Adel Tamata, Masoud Mohammadnezhad
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