This is especially true of young women migrants who have the double burden of employment and care work. The case study on South Korea’s old age care reform in this volume (Section 4.2) shows that a rights-based, community driven and individual focused intervention is possible, which may hold lessons for other countries in the region. While the region has done well in universalising education and health care, it needs to do more in terms of the depth of its social protection framework in the future. A significant portion of the island populations live in rural areas and rely heavily on natural resources for their livelihood, particularly in Melanesia where rural dwellers make up 80 per cent of the population (Government of New Zealand 2012). Melanesia holds 95 per cent of land in the Pacific excluding New Zealand and Australia.