RECOMMENDATION 37: Increase national financial literacy.
Integrate financial literacy into the school curriculum.
Increase financial literacy programmes in villages through the village
representative network and monitor impact.
INQUIRY FINDING 48: Changes to the traditional way of living has increased
privacy and physical separation of houses, reducing likelihood of family violence
intervention and also has led to the disempowerment of both men and women
in the village context.
There are certain developments that will never be reversed. The evolution of housing patterns is one of
those as it is highly unlikely that people will choose to return to less private dwellings. The loss of the
prevention mechanism that this causes can therefore only be addressed by improving and establishing
other mechanisms. The Inquiry has made several recommendations for ways in which the village can
establish protection mechanisms and break down existing barriers to reporting matters of family violence.
These recommendations also offer a potential solution to the possible disempowerment of both men and
women in rural areas in recent periods of Samoa’s development. The Inquiry has identified a number of
ways in which the men and women, through the Village Fono or a VFSC can play a pivotal role in the social
cohesion and harmony of their community. This is an opportunity to re-empower traditional structures
within the context of a developed Samoa, thereby strengthening the Fa’asamoa and playing a role in
addressing family violence at the same time.
RECOMMENDATION 38: Mitigate the loss of outdated family violence
prevention mechanisms through strengthening other mechanisms and
implementing the range of Inquiry recommendations to establish new ones. Full
implementation of the Inquiry recommendations can also be used to reempower men and women within the village context.
Full implementation of Inquiry recommendations.
INQUIRY FINDING 49: Increased use of electronics is likely leading to increased
social anxiety among children, which in turn leads to an increased risk of family
violence.
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