Social Protection in Vanuatu
Vanuatu is an island nation made up of 80 islands across 1,300 kilometres in the Pacific. Hover over the icons below to see which of these life-cycle risks Vanuatu is addressing and how.
- Poor access to antenatal and post natal care
- Unsafe birth
- Poor access to immunisation
- Stunting, malnutrition and hunger
- Reduced cognitive development
- Malnutrition
- Unable to access or stay in school
- Child labour
- Commercial and sexual exploitation and abuse
- Loss of parents or carers
- Inadequate skills
- Inability to access training
- Unemployment and underemployment
- Gender discrimination
- Commercial and sexual exploitation and abuse
- Domestic violence
- Alienation
- Unemployment and underemployment
- Cost of children
- Lack of childcare
- Care of parents
- Debt
- Gender discrimination
- Commercial and sexual exploitation and abuse
- Domestic violence
- Increasing frailty and disability
- Inability to work
- Lack of family care
- Elder abuse
- Vanuatu National Provident Fund (VNPF) retirement benefits for formal workers
