Samoans

Samoans or Samoan people (Samoan: tagata Sāmoa) are the indigenous Polynesian people of the Samoan Islands, an archipelago in Polynesia, who speak the Samoan language. The group's home islands are politically and geographically divided between the Independent State of Samoa and American Samoa, an unincorporated territory of the United States of America. Though divided by national border, the culture and language are the same. The Samoan people and culture form a vital link and stepping stone in the formation and spread of Polynesian culture, language and religion throughout Eastern Polynesia.Polynesian trade, religion, war, and colonialism are important markers within Polynesian …

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IMF: International Monetary Fund · 29 March 2024 English

Upon the authorities’ request, the IMF’s Fiscal Affairs Department provided technical assistance to Palau on reforming government employment and compensation policies. Palau is facing significant challenges in recruiting and retaining …

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SSI: Strategic Studies Institute · 30 January 2024 English

The views expressed in this publication are those of the authors and do not necessarily ref lect the off icial policy or position of the Department of the Army, the …

luence on young girls in the US Arctic. Many Samoans and other Pacif ic Islanders actively serve on and search teams in the US Arctic. By default, Samoans and Pacif ic Islanders will partner with any military


National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre · 12 December 2023 English

Evaluation question 7: What are the cost implications of the pilot for Commonwealth and State and Territory governments? The health economic evaluation used a Cost Benefit Analysis to estimate the …

The use of kava differs for Pacific communities. Samoans use it only for cultural protocols whereas Fijians


TLRI: Teaching Learning & Research Initiative · 20 November 2023 English

In the first year of the study, Samoan conceptualisations and philosophy of pepe meamea were PEPE MEAMEA IN THE SPIRIT OF THE COLLECTIVE: EMBEDDING SAMOAN INDIGENOUS PHILOSOPHY IN ECE FOR …

spoken in New Zealand, only 44% of New Zealand-born Samoans are proficient in gagana Samoa (Ministry for Pacific members of their communities, some of whom are not Samoans, which explains the bilingual delivery medium of concerns for the growing population of younger Samoans and the need for Samoan ontologies to be elevated shared their concern not only for New Zealand-born Samoans but also for Samoan youth in Samoa today. One faiaoga Fa’asinomaga The concept of fa’asinomaga connects all Samoans to their cultural identity and heritage. Identity


Lumina Foundation for Education · 17 October 2023 English

STATE OF DIVERSITY: The Native Tech Ecosystem Co-authored by Kapor Foundation and AISES October 2023 Table of Contents Origin Stories, Native History, and Technology. [...] 13 The role of 2-year …

Natives, Native Hawaiians, Chamorros, and American Samoans), as well as persons from Canadian First Nations


Pacific Forum · 4 October 2023 English

There have been a number of Pacific foreign policy in the Pacific, the United States’ first Islander scholars in recent years who advocate for the step is to more fully …

nurture or care for the space between two people. Samoans in Diaspora. 6 Ka‘ili, T. “Tauhi vä: Nurturing


World Bank Group · 30 September 2023 English

stimulated price reductions that allowed more Samoans to access telephony services. At appraisal, around objective and met the target of more than half of Samoans (55 out of 100 people) having access to 3G and According to GSMA, by Q1 2018, around 52 percent34 of Samoans were online. See M&E Design. The Project exceeded


WFP: World Food Programme · 1 September 2023 English

This study is one of a set of country scoping studies commissioned by WFP’s Regional Bureau Bangkok exploring the use of social protection to enhance WFP’s work on improving food …

against poverty lines), highlighting that most Samoans have limited shock absorption capacity. This figure Estimates suggest, for example, that 82 percent of Samoans live in rural areas (World Bank, 2021d), but in interconnected (Strelow, 2020). The percentage of Samoans living below the food poverty line had dropped formal degrees and belong to the 8.7 percent, of Samoans unemployed. Cultural and historical circumstances regardless of their quality. Wealthy and impoverished Samoans alike have developed an appetite for imported


ODI: Overseas Development Institute · 3 July 2023 English

Considering the provision of support to developing countries to mitigate and adapt to climate change and the consistency of finance flows with climate objectives, the FWG aims to support the …

disasters to better enable partners Samoa’s overall Samoans, the Afolau Biomass to support the prevention,


CGD: Center for Global Development · 16 June 2023 English

This database provides important information for a project—the amount of financing, the amount committed by the World Bank to the project, whether the financing was provided by the Bank’s market …

Drawdown Option (Cat DDO) P121138 Mitigation 2011 Samoans Turn to Traditional Housing as a Sanctuary from


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