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Pacific Women Shaping Pacific Development Close Out Celebration
Pacific Women Lead Video
The Pacific Women Support Unit welcomed partners, supporters and friends to its Pacific Women Close Out event. The event served as a celebration of nearly 10 years of partnership through...
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Influencing Attitudes Towards Violence Against Women Through Film
Pacific Women Lead Publications
Wan Smolbag has been performing issues-based theatre in Vanuatu since 1989. Through its theatre performances, films and television series, the group is in a unique position to influence...
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Using Family Based Models to Enhance Women’s Agency
Pacific Women Lead Publications
A number of projects funded by Pacific Women are using innovative, family-based approaches to help communities and families make decisions about issues such as family size, financial...
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Making Our Families Safe Through Collective Action at the Provincial Level
Pacific Women Lead Publications
In Solomon Islands, the Safe Families project strives to create a country where family and sexual violence is no longer considered acceptable behaviour. It is taking an innovative...
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CARE’s Community Workshop Series: End of Project review of the Highlands Sexual, Reproductive and Maternal Health Project, Papua New Guinea
Pacific Women Lead Publications
This internal end of project review evaluates the effectiveness of the Community Workshop Series and found evidence of contributing to positive changes in community and individual gender...
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Pacific Models of Male Advocacy Working to End Violence Against Women
Pacific Women Lead Publications
Pacific Women supports a range of activities that enable male advocates to be agents of change to end violence against women in communities across Pacific Island countries. The Male...
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The Importance of Building Women’s Leadership at all Levels
Pacific Women Lead Publications
In the early years of Pacific Women’s programming, a high proportion of the projects to support women’s leadership and decision making were focused on women’s political leadership. These...
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Women Civil Society Leaders Discuss Ways to Fast Track Progress on Gender Equality in Pacific
Pacific Women Lead Publications
Women leaders of civil society organisations and representatives of government and academia met with the Secretary General of the Pacific Islands Forum Secretariat (PIFS), Dame Meg...
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Pacific Women Papua New Guinea Performance Report - May 2016
Pacific Women Lead Publications
This Papua New Guinea (PNG) Pacific Women Shaping Pacific Development (Pacific Women) Performance Report draws together the activity level reports provided by the PNG implementing...
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Papua New Guinea Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning Framework
Pacific Women Lead Publications
The revised Pacific Women in Papua New Guinea Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning Framework (MELF) was developed in consultation with Pacific Women partners and reflects changes to the...
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Traditional Leaders Forum of Tuvalu
Pacific Women Lead Publications
Historically, Tuvalu has been a country where talking openly about domestic and family violence was taboo but national leaders have started speaking out against this crime. For the first...
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Tuvalu celebrates International Women’s Day and calls for safer homes and communities
Pacific Women Lead Publications
Working towards gender equality is a priority for Tuvalu National Council for Women, a non-government organisation that has connected women across Tuvalu since 1977. In addition to its...
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We Rise Coalition power central to COVID-19 response
Pacific Women Lead Publications
Part of the broader Pacific women’s movement, the We Rise Coalition advocates for gender equality. Members FWRM, femLINKpacific and IWDA were joined by new members Talitha Project in...
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Inclusive governance practice in CARE International’s Papua New Guinea programming
Pacific Women Lead Publications
This paper examines the experience and lessons of three projects implemented by CARE International in Papua New Guinea to inform best practice in inclusive governance programming in the...
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Public Perceptions of Women in Leadership – Research Project of the Fiji Women’s Forum
Pacific Women Lead Publications
The findings from this study about community views about women in politics and leadership more generally provide important information about current attitudes, how these vary across the...
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Pamela (Equal Playing Field, PNG) - UN Committee on the Rights of the Child message
Pacific Women Lead Video
Pamela, 13, is a dynamic adolescent, head girl and an active participant in one of Equal Playing Field school action groups in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea’s capital. She was in Fiji;...
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Tuvalu and the Pacific at the 65th session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW65)
Pacific Women Lead Publications
The central theme of CSW65, held in March 2021, was women’s participation and decision-making in public life and the elimination of violence. As Chair of the Pacific Islands Forum, Tuvalu...
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Model Farming Family: Philip and Oroshuma
Pacific Women Lead Publications
Philip and Oroshuma are a couple in Fumito village in the Unggai Bena District of Eastern Highlands Province, Papua New Guinea. In this video, they reflect on how their lives have changed...
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Pacific Young Women’s Leadership Alliance: Summary of Online Dialogues
Pacific Women Lead Publications
The Pacific Young Women’s Leadership Alliance is a network of regional, international, and locally based organisations working with and for young women leaders across the Pacific region....
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Women in Local Government – Stories of Inspiration from Fiji
Pacific Women Lead Publications
The first woman to be elected to local government in Fiji was Mrs Maureen Wright in 1967 who then went on to become the Mayor of Lautoka City Council in 1970. Since then the progress of...