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Bridging the Gap: From Protective Laws to Real Change for Women
Pacific Women Lead Publications
Solomon Islands became the first Pacific Island country to launch guidelines and support for domestic violence counsellors, released in 2020. More than double the global average of women...
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A Pacific Girl Program by Pacific Girls
Pacific Women Lead Publications
Pacific Girl is Pacific Women’s dedicated, multi-country program to support adolescent girls to reach their full potential. It addresses priority issues identified through consultations...
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Actions and Impacts for a Peaceful Pacific: 2015 and Beyond
Pacific Women Lead Publications
This publication brings together the perspectives of women involved in the Leitana Nehan Women’s Development Agency of Bougainville, Vois Blong Mere Solomon of Solomon Islands and Ma’a...
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Are Attitudes and Behaviours Towards Violence Against Women Changing in Papua New Guinea?
Pacific Women Lead Publications
Since 2012, FHI 360 has implemented the Komuniti Lukautim Ol Meri (KLOM) project to address violence against women and girls. A survey from the end of phase 2 of this Pacific Women-funded...
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Building gender equity through a Family Teams approach
Pacific Women Lead Publications
This monograph describes an approach to farmer learning and agricultural extension known as the ‘Family Teams’ approach used in a project to improve the uptake and impact of training and...
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Exploring Multidimensional Poverty in Fiji: Findings from a Study Using the Individual Deprivation Measure
Pacific Women Lead Publications
Poverty data in Fiji is derived from household income and expenditure data, collected via periodic Household Income and Expenditure Surveys. Given gender inequality within households can...
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‘A Woman Should Be Beaten If She Deserves Punishment’: Conversations with Men and Women in Fiji and PNG
Pacific Women Lead Publications
Among the consequences of conflict over gender roles or norms, the most disempowering one is violence against women. As part of the World Bank’s qualitative study informing the World...
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Preventing Violence at Home, Allowing Violence in the Workplace: A Case Study of Security Guards in PNG
Pacific Women Lead Publications
This short paper draws on the views shared by security guards who participated in discussion groups as part of a larger research project that explores how men interpret and respond to...
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A Decade On 56 Project with 59 Partners Reaching 1.6 Million Papua New Guineans
Pacific Women Lead Publications
The booklet Promoting Gender Equality in Papua New Guinea – Highlights 2012-2022 features the impacts and achievements across the four outcome areas: Women’s Leadership and Influence;...
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Women Peace Human Security and Development Update – A FemLINKPACIFIC Policy Brief
Pacific Women Lead Publications
FemLINKpacific is a local, regional, and national catalyst for change through the use of accessible media and information. This is FemLINKPACIFIC’s policy brief from May 2014, providing...
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Witch hunts in Papua New Guinea’s Eastern Highlands Province: A Fieldwork Report
Pacific Women Lead Publications
The issue of sorcery and witchcraft-related accusations and violence in Papua New Guinea is receiving increasing attention domestically and internationally. A growing body of literature...
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Research Gives A Voice to Adolescent Girls in Tonga About Unplanned Pregnancy and Motherhood
Pacific Women Lead Publications
The complex and life-changing experience of adolescent unplanned pregnancy and motherhood in Tonga is addressed in a research released today. The ‘Adolescent Unplanned Pregnancy in the...
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A Measure of the Future: Women’s Sexual and Reproductive Risk Index for the Pacific
Pacific Women Lead Publications
The reproductive risk index ranks 21 of the 22 Pacific Island Countries and Territories (PICTs) according to ten key sexual and reproductive health and rights indicators. In doing so, the...
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Reaching into the Bilum Motherhood as a Source of Women’s Power in Papua New Guinea
Pacific Women Lead Publications
In Papua New Guinea, it is primarily through being ‘good’ wives, mothers and household managers that women become valued. This situation can leave young women and those who do not become...
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Pacific Girls Speak
Pacific Women Lead Video
Adolescent girls in the Pacific face challenges because they are girls; and they can also be discriminated against for other reasons, such as having a disability or getting pregnant. In...
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A summary of Pacific Women’s Webinar on Women’s Economic Empowerment and COVID-19
Pacific Women Lead Publications
During the webinar, the following points about women’s economic empowerment raised the most questions and discussion: Women’s economic status is disproportionately affected by the impacts...
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National Study on Domestic Violence on Women in Tonga
Pacific Women Lead Publications
The Tongan study shows that violence against women is prevalent: 79% of Tongan women and girls have experienced physical or sexual violence in their lifetime. 68% of Tongan women and...
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Review of Gender and Infrastructure (2016)
Pacific Women Lead Publications
This review involved a desk review of policies and project documents and consultations with Pacific Region Infrastructure Facility (PRIF) agency representatives and staff from other...
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Pacific Women’s Leadership Scoping Study
Pacific Women Lead Publications
Outside of national politics, Pacific women are often visible as leaders. The study found that Pacific women from places as far afield as Bougainville and Samoa are leaders in diverse...
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Women’s Leadership in the Pacific
Pacific Women Lead Publications
Within the spheres of politics, the bureaucracy, and civil society, this paper examines the literature in relation to: obstacles to women’s participation, success factors, outcomes, and...