18-45 in the public sector to encourage family safety education through the promotion of healthy relationships and address the following objectives; 1. To raise awareness on aspects of healthy relationships including identifying relevant sexual reproductive health rights; 2. To create a safe space to share understanding of types of violence and its impacts; 3. Raise participants understanding of the ‘cycle of violence’ and the concept of ‘power and control’ being the cause of violence perpetrated by one family member upon another; 4. To allow participants a safe space environment to openly share experiences, techniques, and approaches to deal with conflicts in relationships including anger and alcohol abuse; 5. Increase awareness of participants on available services in Samoa. There was a good turn of 151 (of the full expected participants of 264) of the workshops despite the measles outbreak restrictions during this time. The half-day (of 9 days) program with public sector participants was successfully delivered and the key learning outcomes of the session were received and retained as demonstrated through the results of the pre-post testing monitoring tool adopted. An increase of knowledge across the group of 63.5% is a quantitative indicator of successful delivery. The results demonstrated a substantial improvement in participants’ knowledge and understanding of Domestic Violence, from 10.55% to 74.1%. In the end, the following recommendations were noted: 1. For UNFPA to consider continuing supporting the Office of the Ombudsman to conduct the Healthy Relationships awareness in public sector targeting individual Ministry approach as suggested by participants and consider an extension of the program to private sectors; 2. For the Office in collaboration with PSC and MCIL and support from interested partners to consider suggestions from participants to encourage more awareness around Sexual Reproductive Health Rights, Sexual Harassment and Power Conflicts in workplaces; 3. For UNFPA to consider supporting Phase 2 of this awareness and assist the Office and its partners to develop an “Employer Guide to Family Violence and Sexual Harassment” to assist employers in supporting employees experiencing family violence or sexual harassment in workplaces. This activity was kindly funded by UNFPA under its Transformative Agenda Program. Media Campaign on Ending Violence- ‘It Begins with Me’ (Fa’amuta Sauaga, E amata ia te a’u) A media campaign was put together as one of the activities to raise visibility of the National Public Inquiry Report. The aim of the campaign was to raise understanding of the main findings and recommendations of the Report at all level and advocate for implementation. It was also to support Samoa’s effort in building safer families from family violence and stronger communities who advocates for human rights for all. Office of the Ombusman/NHRI Samoa Annual Report 2019/20 23