• • • Coordination of all family violence prevention actors. Family violence data collection and coordination. Through all activities pursue and promote ‘national zero tolerance of 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, other SOGISC persons and the elderly. 12.6 ‘Violence Free Village Programme’ The majority of the population in Samoa lives in rural areas under traditional village systems governed by the Village Fono. This represents an excellent opportunity to develop a programme that utilizes this system and capitalizes on the competitive nature apparent in Samoan society. The very nature which the Inquiry has found to be a contributing factor to family violence through increased financial pressures. The savings that effectively addressing family violence will bring are substantial and mean that considerable funds can be invested into prevention programmes confident in the knowledge that they will benefit the economy in the long-term. Furthermore, a number of the proposed recommendations later in the Report will suggest relieving financial pressures on people in a number of ways which may affect the income of a village. Whilst fines imposed by Village Fono should not be a means of income generation, the reality is that many have become accustomed to a life of reward arising from punishments handed out. To bridge this transition, and to incentivize Village Fonos to quickly implement the full range of Inquiry recommendations, it is suggested that a ‘Violence Free Village Programme’ (VFVP) is initiated by the Government whereby a scorecard system is implemented to assess each village’s compliance with Family Violence Prevention guidelines based on the Inquiry recommendations. Two categories of criteria would exist,  eligibility criteria, aspects of governance, programmes or practices that are essential for a village to have and without which they would not be eligible for any VFVP funding.  set of criteria would be an additional list of the same nature and the more a village complies with that list the more they receive from the VFVP fund, up to a set amount. Throughout the subsequent Inquiry recommendations it will be noted which are to be essential for VFVP eligibility (“core VFVP”) and which should be used to determine the amount a village receives at the end