Women and Good Governance

This booklet that the late Grace Mera Molisa had been working on was discovered posthumously. In her foreword Grace wrote: "The publication reflects my experiences in Vanuatu, together with helpful inputs from many supporters in my quest for the achievement of Good Governance. My earlier tract: Raet blong Pipol; Wea Rod? (1991) was the beginning of this documented search..." This publication is being put out specifically as an initial Awareness Raiser for Vanuatu.

Some of the aspects covered in the booklet include:

• Women in Parliament
• Good Governance
• Food for Thought
• Long God Yumi Stanap
• Good Governance practices already exist - The best plan is the one that works!
• Participation, planning, implementation, monitoring, evaluation
• Constitution of the Republic of Vanuatu - Preamble
  The Constitution
  - Special Features of the Vanuatu Constitution
• A Plan for Good Governance
  - Comprehensive Reform Programme
  - Port Vila Accord
  - The Basis for Reforms for Vanuatu
  - Good Governance
  Principles of Reforming Public Administration in the Public Service of Vanuatu
• Best Practices of Traditional Governance
• Need for Political and Electoral Reform
• Basis Tenets of Democracy
• Democracy
• Gender Benchmarks of Democracy
• CRP Gender Benchmarks
• Civil Society
• Citizenship - Nationhood
• The Life Cycle - Traditional Melanesian Values
• Good Governance is: the Good News of Christianity
• The Ten Commandments
• VANWIP Vision
• Vanuatu Women in Politics 2002 Statistics
• Critical Areas of Concern in Raising Awareness
• Strategies for Closing the Gender Gap in Representative Institutions
• Strategies for Bringing more Women into Public and Political Life
• VNCW Motto
• Why Women?
• What Politics?