RECOMMENDATION 11: Take necessary measures to remove barriers affecting the participation of women and other groups in the Village Fono, Parliament and Churches. RECOMMENDATION 12: Through a consultative process develop a family safety curriculum to be delivered to all children. RECOMMENDATION 13: Strengthen the ban on corporal punishment in schools through educating society on its negative impacts and how it violates the Fa’asamoa and human rights. RECOMMENDATION 14: Conduct a national public education and awareness raising campaign, targeting harmful attitudes and practices and raising understanding of key laws and services. RECOMMENDATION 15: Ensure journalists are able to report on family violence in a manner which protects victims and enhances national understanding of the nature and causes. RECOMMENDATION 16: Minimise the harmful effects of media through education and standard setting. RECOMMENDATION 17: The establishment of a National Family Violence Crisis Centre with in-house certified counselors. RECOMMENDATION 18: Universal Parliamentary support for tackling family violence. RECOMMENDATION 19: Increase spending and accountability on family violence programmes, placing gender equality at the forefront. RECOMMENDATION 20: Village Fonos to take a leading and proactive role in prevention of family violence. RECOMMENDATION 21: Churches to refrain from promoting attitudes which family violence breeds and to become a leading actor in preventing family violence. RECOMMENDATION 22: Establish data collection and Monitoring and Evaluation at the heart of all family violence prevention work in Samoa. RECOMMENDATION 23: Strengthen the legislative framework and develop a comprehensive monitoring and evaluation framework. RECOMMENDATION 24: Ensure the provision of universally accessible shelter services based on current need. RECOMMENDATION 25: Increase the capacity of the Police service to be able to carry out its role as the primary protection agency for victims of family violence. RECOMMENDATION 26: Enhance the role and capacity of the health service to adequately protect against family violence and to play a role in ending the cycle of violence. RECOMMENDATION 27: Further develop the allied health service in Samoa to adequately cater for victims of family violence.

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