On International Universal Health Coverage Day, it is noted that despite improvements, five Pacific Island countries return an index score of less than 50 (scale 0 to 100) for coverage of essential health services.
Birth registration is the first step toward legal identification and a foundation for human rights. While many Pacific Island countries are achieving birth registration rates of 85% or higher, in Papua New Guinea only 13.4% of ...
Photo: Smiling women, Port Vila, Vanuatu (credit: Graham Crumb/Imagicity.com) What happens to the data, insights and learnings generated from a long running development programme when it closes? The unfortunate reality i...
0.63: The average 2020 index score for adoption and implementation of national Disaster Risk Reduction strategies in line with the Sendai Framework, for the 12 Pacific Island countries and territories (PICTs) with a score (out of a maximum of 1.0).
Nearly everyone in Tonga is covered by at least a 3G mobile network (99% in 2019). This is a great improvement on the estimated 15% coverage in 2013. Information and communications technology can alleviate the challenges of di...
The lack of reliable and comprehensive data on production, domestic consumption and exports of kava could be holding back investment and growth prospects for the kava industry according to a new paper by Nilima Lal, Economic St...