Paciviced.net membership

Paciviced.net's members are civics educators working in the Pacific. Our employing organisations and other network partner organisations (including donors) also take an interest in, and sponsor, our involvement in the network.

All you need to join the network is to send in your details, profile (and hopefully a photo) and you're a member. There are no fees, and no obligations imposed but to follow the Code of Conduct that's being developed - and to contribute your questions, thoughts, resources and best practice that might help others!

Following are the names and profiles of current members. Email addresses will be supplied to members directly from time to time, rather than appearing on this site. (This is to help everyone avoid "spammers" (con artists and computer robots that send unwanted advertisements, "get-rich-quick" schemes etc to email addresses found on websites).

Could current and intending members please email facilitator@paciviced.net with a brief profile (and photo if possible) which will be added to this article? How you write your profile is up to you but it should include at least your: name, organisation, country, job or project title, areas of civic education work or interest.

• Alakisio Sela, Fiji Civic Education Program, Ministry of Education



• Alistaire Legge, PIANZEA Secretary, Australian Electoral Commission



• Andrew Trawen, PNG Electoral Commission



• Antonina Ortega, UNDP Pacific Sub Regional Centre, Fiji



• Apolosi Bose, UNDP Regional Rights Resource Team, Fiji



• Blandine Boulekone, Transparency International Vanuatu



• Claire Thoms, UNDP, Fiji



• Dame Carol Kiddu, PNG Parliament



• Elizabeth Cox, UNIFEM, Fiji



• Garry Wiseman, UNDP Pacific Sub Regional Centre, Fiji



• Graham Hassall, Pacific Institute of Advanced Studies in Development, Development and Governance, University of the South Pacific, Fiji


Hi, I’m Helena Catt, Chief Executive of the NZ Electoral Commission. We have a role in providing education and information on electoral matters, which we interpret broadly. Some of our current focus areas are education for citizenship in schools and working with trainee journalists. Another current area of work is gathering together research that helps us understand who does not vote and why. Before I came to work of the Electoral Commission I was a political scientist at the University of Auckland.


• Henry Ivarature, Pacific Islands Forum Secretariat



• Jeannette Bolenga, Democracy and Electoral Studies Program, Pacific Institute of Advanced Studies in Development, Development and Governance, University of the South Pacific, Fiji



• Jude Davesi, Solomon Islands Parliament



• Monica Fong, Pacific Islands Forum Secretariat



• Pate Nunu, Pacific Institute of Advanced Studies in Development, Development and Governance, University of the South Pacific, Fiji


Kia ora, I'm Peter Northcote, Communications Manager at the NZ Electoral Commission since December 2003. My work includes working with teachers and the news media, developing resources, maintaining website content, and designing and project managing election information campaigns. My background's in public relations, advertising and journalism. A lot of my work has been related to the education sector.


• Sadhana Sen, Democracy and Electoral Studies Program, Pacific Institute of Advanced Studies in Development, Development and Governance, University of the South Pacific, Fiji



• Sakenasa Varea, Fiji Elections Office (formerly)



• Theresa Sing, Fiji Elections Office



• Tina Harihiru, Solomon Islands



• Vanessa Lolohea, Youth Parliament, Tonga



• Warren Cahill, Solomon Islands Parliament.