RECOMMENDATION 21: Churches
to refrain from promoting
attitudes which family violence
breeds and to become a leading
actor in preventing family
violence.
Faifeau to participate in Family Village Safety
Committees.
Conduct comprehensive training for faifeaus on
the nature, causes and consequences of family
violence, the impact of which to be monitored.
Church participation in the development of a
family safety theology.
Develop guidance for church ministers on how to
promote non-violence and preach a nonviolence theology.
Carry out marriage counseling in their parishes
similar to the programme now implemented by
Harvest Centre Church.
Re-establishment of regular visits to those within
a congregation to develop close links, increase
spiritual guidance and act as an early warning
system and preventive mechanism against family
violence.
Set limitations on church obligations, linked to
financial capacity of families.
• All Church leaders
• NCC
Immediate
attention
INQUIRY FINDING 32: Data collection on family violence is sub-standard, not disaggregated and routinely misreports the true scale of the
problem, undermining the few efforts to combat it.
RECOMMENDATION
RECOMMENDATION 22: Establish
data collection and Monitoring
and Evaluation at the heart of all
ACTION OUTCOME
Develop a centralized data collection system
across ministries and NGO service providers.
Data to be disaggregated by sex, gender, age,
disability, geographical area, type of violence
suffered, social/ economic status etc.
IMPLEMENTATION/
RESPONSIBLE AGENCY
SBS
MOP (DVU)
Ministry of Foreign
Affairs & Trade/NHRI
Samoa (Sadata)
TIMEFRAME
Urgent attention