RECOMMENDATION 1: By legislation, establish a Family Violence Prevention Office, National Family Violence Prevention Strategy and Communications Strategy, Family Violence Prevention Council and Taskforce to provide the foundation for a coordinated inter-agency response to family violence. RECOMMENDATION 2: Parliament should expeditiously give proper and urgent attention (and implementation) to recommendations relating specifically to violence against women, girls, children and persons with disability contained in the 2015 and 2016 State of Human Rights Reports provided by the Office. RECOMMENDATION 3: Undertake a study to document the prevalence of violence and raise awareness of other human rights issues faced by fa’afafine, SOGISC persons and the elderly. RECOMMENDATION 4: Establish a ‘Violence Free Village Programme’ which provides financial incentives for the implementation of Family Violence Prevention initiatives based on Inquiry recommendations. RECOMMENDATION 5: Government to commit to remove section 14 of the Infants Ordinance 1961 and to consult appropriately. Gradually move to ban corporal punishment and harsh verbal punishment in homes. RECOMMENDATION 6: Re-establish the Fa’asamoa practice of effective communication between parent and child. RECOMMENDATION 7: Promote a gender equal approach to parenting based on the Fa’asamoa and human rights to address patriarchy, female subservience and male sexual entitlement. RECOMMENDATION 8: Place gender equality at the forefront of the objectives of the Samoa Family Violence Prevention Office and develop activities and measures to modify the social and cultural patterns of conduct of men and women to eliminate patriarchal attitudes of male superiority, and monitor long-term impact. RECOMMENDATION 9: Address misconceptions around the Fa’asamoa which further gender inequality and contribute to family violence and identify and implement ways in which it can prevent and protect against family violence. RECOMMENDATION 10: Develop a public theology on family violence, which addresses Biblical misinterpretations that reinforce gender inequality and violence.