The second area of concern was the availability and access to pornography on phones (especially for children) and the sexual violence that appears with greater regularity on TV and in films. All of these fit neatly into the traditional narrative of women as sexual objects whose role it is to meet the insatiable sexual appetite of men. “These attitudes also contribute to the propagation of pornography and the depiction and other commercial exploitation of women as sexual objects, rather than as individuals. This in turn contributes to sexual violence.” CEDAW Committee General Recommendation 19, Inquiry document 105 These developments in the use of media are therefore reinforcing the harmful gender stereotypes and gender inequality which leads to widespread acceptance of the sexual entitlement of men, and then the perpetration of sexual, physical and emotional violence. INQUIRY FINDING 27: The media can and does increase the risk of family violence by promoting gender stereotypes and other harmful attitudes that cause it. 8.2 Government Plans, Coordination and Programmes 8.2.1 National Plans The Strategy for the Development of Samoa 2016/2017 – 2019/2020 is the primary national policy framework and one of its strategic outcomes is “Family and sexual violence level reduced”. 70 This is found under the key outcome to strengthen social institutions (Key Outcome 8), suggesting that Government sees family violence as an issue which must be addressed predominantly within communities. This conclusion is supported by an examination of the Law and Justice Sector Plan 2016-2020 (LJS Plan 2016-2020) which again places family violence under social development but is not addressed at all within ‘governance’ or ‘access to justice’. This is similarly the case when assessing the Community Development Sector Plan 2016-2021 where again all initiatives related to family violence are under social development and nothing under governance. “This is an immediate challenge as there is no cohesion or coordinated approach. Is the sector approach even working in this area?” Leautuliilagi Vanessa Barlow-Schuster, consultant and lawyer, Inquiry public hearings The question posed by Leautuliilagi can be answered by looking at the key activities envisaged within LJS Plan 2016-2020. Firstly, the plan contains only a few high level activities. It does not attempt to consider how the root causes of family violence may be identified, nor the widespread attitudinal change achieved 70Ministry of Finance Economic Policy and Planning Division. (2016). Strategy for the Development of Samoa 2016/2017 – 2019/2020. Retried from http://www.lse.ac.uk/GranthamInstitute/wp-content/uploads/laws/4836.pdf.