Samoa | Human Rights & Social Development

Capital

Apia

Population

202,100 (midyear estimates-SPC, 2024)

Currency

Samoan Tala

Languages

Samoan, English

Related projects

Pacific Women Lead at SPC

Pacific Women Lead (PWL) at the Pacific Community (SPC) programme, termed PWL at SPC, provides grants for gender equality initiatives through its PWL at SPC Grants for Pacific governments and civil society, and a...

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Regional Working Group on the Implementation of Family Protection / Domestic Violence Legislation

It does this through the creation of a regional platform which brings together high-level (senior) government officials from ministries responsible for coordinating and/or implementing their country/state’s famil...

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Promoting Just, Engaged, Civic-minded and Transparent Governance programme (PROJECT Governance)

SPC is the leading implementing agency for PROJECT Governance and is collaborating with sub-grantee partners: East-West Center (EWC), CARE International and the International Foundation of Electoral Systems (IFES...

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ACP-EU Programme (Pacific) Enhancing capacity for the sustainability of Cultural and Creative Industries in the Pacific Project (CCIP)

The ACP-EU Enhancing capacity for the sustainability of Cultural and Creative Industries in the Pacific Project (CCIP) provides financial support, technical advice, and mentoring and capacity building schemes to...

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Pacific Partnership to End Violence Against Women and Girl (PPEVAWG) Phase 1 - Social Citizenship Education

The Pacific region has some of the highest rates of violence against women recorded in the world – twice the global average with an estimated two in every three Pacific women impacted by gender-based violence. Al...

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Stories

Blog

Child rights and gender equ...

35 years ago, the Convention on the Rights of the Child was adopted by the Un...

Mar 04, 2025

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Raising awareness of human ...

Dec 09, 2024

Blog

Meet Ulusapeti Tiitii, Samo...

Ulusapeti Tiitii, Principal Fisheries Officer at the Ministry of Agri...

Apr 11, 2024

News

Keynote Address by Honourab...

Your Excellency, President David Panuelo of the Federated States o...

Sep 28, 2021

Publications

2015

Samoa

Stocktake of the gender mainstreaming capacity of Pacific Island governments: Samoa

Secretariat of the Pacific Community. 2015. Stocktake of the gender mainstreaming capacity of Pacific Island governments: Samoa. Noumea: Secretariat of the Pacific Community. 48 p. https://www.spc.int/digitallibrary/get/zz2dq

2013

Samoa

Samoa: Legal Analysis on Violence Against Women

Anon. 2013. Samoa: Legal Analysis on Violence Against Women. https://www.spc.int/digitallibrary/get/ngqzm

2020

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Eighty-fourth [84th] Extraordinary Outreach Session of the Committee on the Rights of the Child: review - Apia, Samoa, 2-6 March 2020

Pacific Community. 2020. Eighty-fourth [84th] Extraordinary Outreach Session of the Committee on the Rights of Child [electronic resource]: review - Apia, Samoa, 2-6 March 2020. Suva, Fiji: Pacific Community. 50 p. https://www.spc.int/digitallibrary/get/8bw7y