rp21 situational analysis - Pacific Health Voices

The Salvation Army Alcohol and Drug
Awareness Centre of Tonga promotes
healthy lifestyle choices, offering holistic
approaches to assessment, treatment, awareness
and education. Programs include life
skills, healthy anger, 12 steps to good health,
psychology of winning, recovery group,
community- based programs, team building
and one-to-one counselling. 876
Regional and national advocacy groups,
including the Tonga Human Rights and
Democracy Movement, monitor corruption, 877
aiming to raise awareness and to ensure
that Pacific Island decision makers are
accountable for inaction or complicity in
corruption. 878 Such advocacy groups may
present an opportunity to advocate for innovative
and alternative responses to drug and
alcohol issues.
15.6 Australian involvement
There has been a tendency for international
donors, including Australia, New Zealand and
the European Union, to focus on providing
support to nominated outer islands of
Tonga. In 2004–05 the Australian Federal
Police funded a transnational crime team
for a number of Pacific countries, including
Tonga.
Australian Agency for
International Development
Australia is the largest aid donor to Tonga,
providing a AU$13.2 million country program
and total overseas development
assistance of AU$19.3 million. Focus areas
include improved governance and accountability,
stronger economic growth and better
service delivery. Relevant programs for this
review include law and justice, and health
and education programs. Australia is providing
funding and technical support for
economic and public sector reform, business
recovery, anti-corruption initiatives, customs
and policing, and community development.
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876 Overview of Drugs and Alcohol, Tonga: workshop presentation to 3rd PDARN meeting, Fiji, July
2008. Available at: .
877 Other groups include the Pacific Concerns Resource Centre, the Pacific Network on Globalisation
and the Ecumenical Centre for Research, Education and Advocacy.
878 Australian Council for Overseas Aid (2004), Good Governance Pacific-style: the role of Australian
NGOs in assisting Pacific civil society. Report to roundtable discussion, National Europe Centre,
Australian National University, Canberra, 9 March 2004. Available at: (accessed March 2009).
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