Call for research papers on Pacific issues

The Pacific Leadership Program is an Australian Government project designed to improve governance and leadership in the Pacific and East Timor. The program’s research committee is inviting research proposals from the region, including Australian, New Zealand and Hawaiian institutions with links to Pacific Island research bodies, to address one of two major regional issues.

The first, ‘The Cost of Corruption’, asks researchers to cover matters including now corruption costs can be assessed and quantified, where this has been done and what are the challenges and implications for the Pacific Region.

The second research paper PLP wants is a review of the state of knowledge relating to ‘Successful Models of Youth Leadership’. Researchers are asked to identify positive and negative models of youth leadership in the Pacific, whether these programs make a difference in addressing social issues facing youth and what is the role of government, NGOs and the churches.

The research papers are due for completion, respectively, in February and April next year. There’s a fee payable - $35,000 for corruption; $65,000 for youth (work that out!).

Full details are available by downloading the official document here. Download plp_research.pdf  The deadline for proposals is 12 September.