Official Launch: Nationwide Public Opinion Survey on Sorcery Accusation Related Violence
The fourth in our series of evidence-based advocacy campaigns. Hard facts, community voices, and real evidence brought to the work of ending SARV for good — supported by the Australian Government through the Building Community Engagement in Papua New Guinea Program.
Together, Let Us Listen, Learn, And Act to end Sorcery Accusation Related Violence
Read morePromoting cultural understanding and community progress
The Melanesian Institute in Papua New Guinea is a hub for intellectuals, researchers, and those working for positive change. The Institute conducts research, offers educational programs, and engages in social development initiatives, fostering interfaith dialogue and harmonious relations.
We serve churches, missionary societies and service institutions through research, publications, in-service trainings and culture-related courses for varying interest groups — including participatory community processes for grassroots communities.
Executive Director, Melanesian Institute
Empowering grassroots communities for sustainable development
The Melanesian Institute has been serving the people of Papua New Guinea and beyond since 1969 in the areas of social research, publication and cultural orientation courses for church institutions, missionary societies, and interested individuals and organizations — local and overseas NGOs, researchers, foreign dignitaries and development workers, and government bodies. These core services have contributed greatly to nation building, missionary work and gutpela sindaun — fullness of life — for local communities.
However, these services have remained limited to expatriate communities and the few Papua New Guineans who can read and write. The Institute has not reached most Papua New Guineans living in remote communities with low levels of literacy. So how do we reach those communities? How do they become active participants rather than recipients? How can our services bring about social transformation, and be sustained at grassroots level? How can grassroots communities become catalysts of genuine change and drivers of their own development, right in their own backyards?
The Institute believes it is within its capacity and institutional mandate to deliver a fourth service that supplements and consolidates the other three, and that can address these collectively discerned questions. That emerging service is Participatory Processes for Grassroots Communities.
Calling all writers. Share your expertise with the Institute — Catalyst is accepting original and insightful articles.
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