Melanesian Institute
A hub for intellectuals, researchers, and those working for positive change in Papua New Guinea since 1969.
The Melanesian Institute has spent the last year researching the role of healthcare in tackling Sorcery Accusation Related Violence (SARV). You can read or download our report below.
To be re-sourced from MI’s own files — the original was a private Google Drive embed and is no longer publicly accessible. See MISSING_PDFS.md in the backup folder.
Promoting 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.
Bro. Martin Tnines, SVD — 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 (e.g. local and overseas NGOs, researchers, foreign dignitaries and development workers, government bodies, etc.). These ‘core services’ have been greatly contributing to nation building, missionary work and gutpela sindaun (fullness of life) for local communities in Papua New Guinea.
However, these services are still limited to expatriate communities and few privileged Papua New Guineans who can read and write. MI has not reached most of Papua New Guineans who are living in remote communities and have a low level of literacy. So, how can we reach out to these remote communities? How can we make these communities become active participants of the services of the Melanesian Institute? How can the services of the Melanesian Institute bring about social transformation for these local communities? How can we sustain the services at grassroots community level? How can grassroots communities become catalysts of genuine change and drivers of their development right in their own backyards?
The Melanesian Institute team thinks that it is within its capacity and institutional mandate to deliver a fourth service that supplements and consolidates the other three main services and that can address these collectively discerned questions and challenges. The newly emerging service of the Institute is “Participatory Processes for Grassroots Communities”.
