Pacific Youth and Development in the South Pacific
	Quantity in Basket: none Code: ISBN-BC00000126 Price: $7.00 Author: Paula Bloomfield (ed.) Country: Pacific Date Published: 1981 Publisher: Institute of Pacific Studies Pages: 104 Paperback: yes Illustrated: yes Glossary: yes
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The Commonwealth Youth Programme's South Pacific Diploma Course was launched in November 1978, with 27 participants from Fiji, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Tonga and Western Samoa. For three months course participants followed lectures in various subjects relevant to youth and community work after which they return to their home countries to conduct practical projects of their own choice with the help of an approved supervisor. They submit a report on these projects when they return to Suva for the third and final phase of the course. From these reports, nine have been selected to make up the content of their publication, titled Pacific Youth. The first Director of the Ministry of Youth, Fiji, Mr. Nelson Delailomaloma has provided the tenth study. He is now Commissioner, Eastern Division. Practical examples are greatly emphasised in the CYP South Pacific Diploma Course in Youth and Development. This is demonstrated not only in how it is structured but also by the type of projects the participants have chosen. In this first issue, five vital areas where youth is involved are under study. These are land, sea, war, town and training. The most important feature of this publication is that the contributors are writing from first hand knowledge and are earnestly searching for solutions. Special thanks must go to the Institute of Pacific Studies at the University of the South Pacific, which played a significant part in the conception, research and creation of this book.