VANUATU

Social protection in Vanuatu

Vanuatu is an island nation made up of 80 islands across 1,300 kilometres in the Pacific. Read below to see which of these life-cycle risks Vanuatu is addressing and how.

EARLY CHILDHOOD

  • Poor access to antenatal and post natal care
  • Unsafe birth
  • Poor access to immunisation
  • Stunting, malnutrition and hunger
  • Reduced cognitive development

SCHOOL AGE

  • Malnutrition
  • Unable to access or stay in school
  • Child labour
  • Commercial and sexual exploitation and abuse
  • Loss of parents or carers

YOUTH

  • Inadequate skills
  • Inability to access training
  • Unemployment and underemployment
  • Gender discrimination
  • Commercial and sexual exploitation and abuse
  • Domestic violence
  • Alienation

WORKING AGE

  • Unemployment and underemployment
  • Cost of children
  • Lack of childcare
  • Care of parents
  • Debt
  • Gender discrimination
  • Commercial and sexual exploitation and abuse
  • Domestic violence

OLD AGE

  • Increasing frailty and disability
  • Inability to work
  • Lack of family care
  • Elder abuse
Leading to the following solutions:

OLD AGE

  • Vanuatu National Provident Fund retirement benefits for formal workers