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Rights, Empowerment and
Cohesion (REACH) for Rural and
Urban Fijians Project
The REACH Project aims to
promote peace building, social
cohesion and inclusiveness.
Fiji’s geography poses unique challenges for basic access
to social, economic and legal services, especially for
those in urban informal settlements, maritime zones,
and other remote rural areas. Fijian citizens, of whom
many reside in rural, maritime and urban informal
settlements and villages, usually cover long distances to
reach government offices typically situated in urban and
semi-urban areas. This results in citizens facing delays
and challenges in addition to lost income as they bear
additional costs of transportation, accommodation and
so on, to be able to access basic public services.
The Project conducts awareness raising of the social,
economic and legal rights enshrined in the Constitution
of the Republic of Fiji, provides access to the services
associated with these rights, and also strengthens
institutional capacity to deliver these services. A mobile
service delivery approach is undertaken to reach
communities throughout all of Fiji with the focus to reach
the furthest behind first.
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Project duration
2015 – 2018
Project location
Throughout Fiji
Partnership
The Ministry of Women,
Children and Poverty
Alleviation, and the Legal
Aid Commission
Total budget
US$2.685 million
Funds
Government of Japan
and UNDP
IMPACT STORIES Rights, Empowerment and Cohesion (REACH) for Rural and Urban Fijians Project