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