Media, News & Insights in Pacific Islands
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Program & Technical Officer, Pacific RISE-CTIP, Tonga
This position is open to nationals of the Kingdom of Tonga only. The Asia Foundation is a nonprofit international development organization committed to improving lives across a dynamic and developing […]
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Program and Technical Officer
Candidates for this position must be nationals of the Republic of Marshall Islands (RMI) or individuals legally eligible to work in the RMI. The Asia Foundation is a nonprofit international […]
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The Asia Foundation Announces the Pacific Women Climate Leaders Fellowship Program
The Asia Foundation announces the inaugural class of Pacific Women Climate Leaders, a 10-day fellowship program designed to recognize, support, and amplify women’s voices driving climate solutions across the Pacific region. […]
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Pacific Islands
In the Pacific Islands, we support Pacific solutions to Pacific challenges. In addition to our regional hub in Fiji, we have presences in Papua New Guinea, the Republic of the Marshall Islands, Palau, and Tonga.
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Digital Scoping and Mapping of Fiji and Vanuatu
Digital literacy in the Pacific can unlock the future of work and increase people-to-people connectivity and communication flows. The “youth bulge” across the Pacific is expected to peak around 2050, […]
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Program & Technical Officer, Pacific RISE-CTIP, Republic of the Marshall Islands
This position is only open to nationals of the Republic of the Marshall Islands The Pacific Regional Initiative and Support for More Effective Counter-Trafficking in Persons (Pacific RISE-CTIP) project is […]
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Consultant for Power Up Comprehensive Study, Pacific Islands
Gender-based violence (GBV) has increased at an alarming rate in countries across Southeast Asia and the Pacific. Groups already at the margins of society, including adolescent girls, migrant women, displaced […]
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Communications Assistant, Pacific RISE-CTIP, Pacific Islands
This position is open to Fiji nationals only Pacific Regional Initiative and Support for More Effective Counter-Trafficking in Persons (Pacific RISE-CTIP) project is a five-year project implemented by The Asia […]
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Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning Assistant, Pacific RISE-CTIP, Pacific Islands
This position is open to Fiji nationals only Pacific Regional Initiative and Support for More Effective Counter-Trafficking in Persons (Pacific RISE-CTIP) project is a five-year project implemented by The Asia […]
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Program Officer, Government Portfolio, Pacific RISE-CTIP, Palau
This is a consulting opportunity open to Palau nationals only, with the possibility of transition to a staff position Pacific Regional Initiative and Support for More Effective Counter-Trafficking in Persons […]
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Program Officer, CSO Portfolio, Pacific RISE-CTIP, Palau
This is a consulting opportunity open to Palau nationals only, with the possibility of transition to a staff position Pacific Regional Initiative and Support for More Effective Counter-Trafficking in Persons […]
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Procurement & Events Management Officer, Pacific Islands
This position is open to Fiji nationals or Pacific Islanders eligible to work in Fiji The Pacific Regional Initiative and Support for More Effective Counter Trafficking in Persons (Pacific RISE-CTIP) […]
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Assistant Program Officer, Pacific Islands
This position is open to Papua New Guinea nationals only The Pacific Regional Initiative and Support for More Effective Counter Trafficking in Persons (Pacific RISE-CTIP) project is a 5-year project […]
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Program Officer, Pacific Islands
This position is open to Papua New Guinea nationals only The Pacific Regional Initiative and Support for More Effective Counter-Trafficking in Persons (Pacific RISE-CTIP) project is a five-year project implemented […]
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Complementarity of Indian Development Cooperation with Similar Initiatives in the Indo-Pacific – Fiji
The Asia Foundation, through its India–U.S. Triangular Development Partnership (TriDeP), a program funded by USAID, is working toward strengthening India’s and the U.S.’s development cooperation footprint in the Indo-Pacific region […]
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Operations Manager, Pacific Islands
This position is only open for qualified Pacific Islanders eligible to work from Fiji. The Asia Foundation is a nonprofit international development organization committed to improving lives and expanding opportunities […]
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The Asia Foundation in the Pacific Islands – Regional Strategy
The Asia Foundation re-established its presence in the Pacific region in 2021 with the establishment of the Pacific Islands office in Suva, Fiji. The Foundation works with local communities, host government, nonstate actors, the private sector, and donors where development, strategic, economic, and diplomatic interests are closely intertwined. The unique cultural and historical context of…
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Amelia Makutu
Amelia Makutu joined The Asia Foundation in July 2022. She has 30 years of experience in communications and media. She has worked in the development sector with Australian aid programs, […]
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Krystelle Lavaki
Krystelle Lavaki is a marine scientist by training and holds a bachelor’s degree in marine science from the University of the South Pacific. An entrepreneur, Krystelle has worked in veterinary […]
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Lavenia Rokovucago
Lavenia Rokovucago is a former career civil servant and diplomat. She joined The Asia Foundation in January 2023. For more than 15 years, she worked in Education, Social Welfare, Youth […]
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Cynthia Ramirez
Cynthia Ramirez, senior manager for Operations, Administration, and Finance for The Asia Foundation in the Pacific Islands, is an accomplished administrative, financial, and operations specialist with extensive knowledge and experience […]
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A Pacific Solution to a Pacific Challenge: A Human-Rights Approach to Human Trafficking
With porous borders and limited resources for enforcement, The Pacific Islands are especially susceptible to sex and labor trafficking.
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Toward a Resilient Care Ecosystem in Asia and the Pacific
There is growing recognition that care work is both a ubiquitous and critical social and economic activity. Globally, care providers support over one billion people, including children, elderly adults, and […]
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Political Economy of Water Management and Community Perceptions in the Pacific Island Countries
Access to potable water and sanitation services is available to only 55% and 30% of Pacific islanders, respectively, the latter being the lowest rate globally. The lack of water and […]
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Unpacking the Water Sector in the Pacific Islands
A region defined by water consistently ranks among the world’s worst for access to drinking water and basic sanitation. Why?
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Development Challenges in the Indo-Pacific: Focus on Pacific Islands
The Pacific Islands occupy a vast oceanic region that covers almost 20 percent of the Earth’s surface and is home to the world’s largest concentration of microstates. Its three ethno-geographic […]
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Google President for Asia Pacific Scott Beaumont Highlights Go Digital ASEAN Initiative
Google blog The Keyword spotlights The Asia Foundation’s Go Digital ASEAN initiative in a piece written by Google’s President for the Asia Pacific, Scott Beaumont, on the company’s continued commitment […]
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Pacific Islands
As we expand our programs in the Pacific Islands and re-establish our office in Suva, Fiji, The Asia Foundation is building on decades of on-the-ground experience in the region. Areas […]
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A Spiraling Debt Crisis, LICs, and SIDS
The debt crisis is back. For low-income countries and small island developing states, it never really went away.
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A Crisis within a Crisis: Climate Change and Gender-Based Violence
As the world celebrates International Women’s Day on March 8, women’s achievements and their ongoing struggle for equality have taken on even greater importance in the face of the climate crisis.
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Al Jazeera Features Let’s Read and Ocean and Climate Action Storybook Series
Al Jazeera features Let’s Read’s new Oceans and Climate Action children’s storybook series from the Pacific Islands. The ten new storybooks are a result of Let’s Read’s first-ever Booklab in […]
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In Pacific Island Kitchens, the Revolution Is Being Televised
The same processed foods that have fed obesity and diabetes in the West have triggered an epidemic of dietary disease in the Pacific Islands. Now, a runaway hit TV show is pointing the way back to the region’s healthy, traditional cuisine.
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Peering into the Year Ahead in Asia
The year is still young, but our country representatives are looking ahead to the trends and developments that will affect the course of peace and prosperity in the Indo-Pacific in 2022.
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InAsia’s Greatest Hits of 2021
As 2022 beckons, it’s time to take a fond look back at the best of InAsia from the year gone by.
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Stories for Children of the Ocean
Some much-needed new children’s books from an unlikely team of authors will answer the crying need for kid’s books in Fiji’s native tongues.
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Virtual Event – Addressing the Covid-Related Challenges Facing the Pacific Islands
While swift measures on border control taken by Pacific Island governments to contain the spread of Covid-19 spared the region a health crisis on the scale faced in other parts […]
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Women: Frontline Responders in the Pacific Islands
In the vast Pacific Islands region, climate change is compounding the disruptions of Covid-19. Since 2016, the Shifting the Power Coalition has drawn on the leadership of diverse women’s organizations to meet challenges like these. Now they’ll be getting extra support from The Asia Foundation.
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The Future of Work for Women in the Pacific Islands
Working women in the Pacific Islands face a trifecta of challenges from Covid-19, climate change, and disruptive technology. A new report from The Asia Foundation takes a hard look at the path to a better future.
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The Future of Work for Women in the Pacific Islands
The Future of Work for Women in the Pacific Islands highlights challenges and opportunities women face in the context of the pandemic, climate change, and the imperatives of technology-led change. […]
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Our Predictions for 2021, Following a Year That Defied Prediction
From a pandemic that quickly swept the globe, to the storming of the U.S. capital, 2020 was a year that defied prediction. So, what can we say about 2021? After a year that derailed development trajectories across Asia, our experts look to the year ahead.
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The Pacific Covid-19 Infodemic
The Covid-19 pandemic has revealed dangerous vulnerabilities in the Pacific’s digital information ecosystems, as well as great opportunities to use the internet to deliver access to information. Despite noteworthy initiatives […]
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Virtual Summit and Workshop – Pacific Cyber Dialogue
In the past five years, new undersea cable projects and other internet infrastructure improvements have begun connecting Pacific internet users to faster and more accessible digital resources. At the same […]
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Sandra Kraushaar
Sandra Kraushaar is The Asia Foundation’s regional representative in the Pacific Islands, based in Suva, Fiji. She has over 25 years of professional experience working on gender, human rights, political […]
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Books for Asia Partners with the U.S. Embassy in Fiji, Kiribati, Nauru, Tonga, and Tuvalu
The Asia Foundation is pleased to announce a new partnership with the U.S. Embassy in Fiji, Kiribati, Nauru, Tonga, and Tuvalu. 2,384 books were donated to educational and government institutions […]
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The Asia Foundation Honored at the Pacific Century Institute’s Annual Dinner
Pacific Century Institute’s 2020 Annual Award Dinner Honoring Building Bridges Award Recipients The Asia Foundation President David D. Arnold accepting on behalf of the Foundation and Dr. Siegfried S. Hecker […]
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Insider Briefing: Navigating the Future of Work in the Asia-Pacific
This conversation will examine how COVID-19 has hastened digitalization and technological innovation in labor markets, jeopardizing the livelihoods of many Asia-Pacific workers and increasing the need for dynamic, market-aligned upskilling […]