The Veilomani Report – World Rugby’s Governance Review

I am very pleased to have assisted Pacific Rugby Players Welfare (“PRPW“) with the drafting of the Veilomani Report – its submissions to World Rugby’s Governance Review.

Veilomani is the Fijian term for loving one another and working together constructively. PRPW believes that this is exactly what global rugby now desperately needs, to heal a sport being pulled in too many different directions.

The Veilomani Report calls on World Rugby to make wholesale and urgent governance reforms on issues affecting stakeholders across the sport. Inevitably, the report focuses on the issues most pertinent to the Pacific Islands but it also addresses wider concerns with the governance of the game.

PRPW has submitted the Veilomani Report to Sir Hugh Robertson KCMG PC DL, the independent chairman of World Rugby’s governance review, and hopes that it will be considered thoroughly in the review process.

The full report can be read here.

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