The hierarchy of threats, risks and challenges in the South Pacific. The dwindling, ravaged forests of Melanesia show what happens when extraction becomes exploitation, flavoured by corruption.
PAPUA NEW GUINEA:
Reciprocity networks, service delivery, and corruption: The wantok system in Papua New Guinea. These social networks help people cope with adversity but can also promote favouritism and corruption, posing a dilemma for development practitioners.
VANUATU:
Coronavirus fears and controversial passport sales: Vanuatu's election explained. In 2015, 14 members of parliament, including the acting prime minister, were found guilty of corruption, putting half the governing party's MPs behind bars.
Vanuatu's election commissioner dies. Martin Tete is one of the main reasons Vanuatu's vote counting has been fair and free of corruption.
To know more about the UN Pacific Regional Anti-Corruption Project please contact the team members:
Annika Wythes, Regional Anti-Corruption Adviser, UNODC, annika.wythes@un.org
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