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Pacific Women Promoting Gender Equality in Papua New Guinea Highlights 2012 to 2021
Pacific Women Lead Publications
The Promoting Gender Equality in Papua New Guinea – Highlights 2012-2021 booklet highlights the impacts of the 54 projects supported by the Papua New Guinea-Australia Partnership through...
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Believing in Themselves, Pacific Girls are Leading Change
Pacific Women Lead Publications
Being a girl rocks! Girls from four countries came together to drive positive change for adolescent girls across the region at the Pacific Girl Inception Workshop. The girls spoke of the...
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Video
Australia's Ambassador for Women and Girls introduces Pacific Women Shaping Pacific Development.
Pacific Women Lead Video
Pacific Women Shaping Pacific Development highlights the Australian Government's commitment to equality and empowerment of women in the region. It is a 10 year $320 million program...
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Video
COVID-19: Staying Safe at Home (Pacific)
Pacific Women Lead Video
In a first for the Pacific, several country-specific video animations are available about the safety of women and children in their homes during the current COVID-19 pandemic response....
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Thematic Brief: Inclusion of Pacific women with disabilities
Pacific Women Lead Publications
This Thematic Brief provides a broad summary of information and analysis about Pacific women with disabilities. The summary includes references to associated research and information....
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Helpdesk Research Report: Women’s Economic Empowerment in the Pacific
Pacific Women Lead Publications
This review looks at major trends in spending (comparing women and men), the chief barriers to women having more income and control of their finances, and the key opportunities for...
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Pacific Feminists and Activists: Re-framing, Re-articulating and Re-energizing Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights
Pacific Women Lead Publications
In this statement, Pacific feminist, Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights advocates call for: Papua New Guinea State to repeal the Sorcery Act and investigate and prosecute all...
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Thinking and Working Politically Following a Set Back
Pacific Women Lead Publications
The year 2015 was an extraordinary year for gender equality in Tongan politics. In February, the Government announced at the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women that it would...
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Flexible Funding for Women’s Organisations
Pacific Women Lead Publications
There is growing evidence that supporting women’s groups, networks, organisations and the women’s movement is an effective way to bring about gender equality. Pacific Women has...
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What Does an Economically Empowered Pacific Woman Look Like?
Pacific Women Lead Publications
More than 240 Pacific Islanders, researchers, policy makers and development practitioners from nine countries gathered to share ideas and lessons learned. They contributed to the...
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Covid-19 Burden of Care Falling on Adolescent Girls
Pacific Women Lead Publications
The COVID-19 pandemic has increased the burden of care on women and girls. In normal circumstances, caring for siblings and children in the community and additional household work often...
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Video
Pacific Women Men on Gender Equality
Pacific Women Lead Video
Tuiloma Neroni Slade (then Secretary General of the Pacific Islands Forum), John Gemba (a male advocate with Eastern Highlands Family Voice in Papua New Guinea), John Ericho (Director of...
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Sharing Experiences from 17 Years as a Pacific Woman MP
Pacific Women Lead Publications
The Hon Va’aiga Tukuitonga has been a Member of Parliament in Niue for 17 years and attended her third PWPP project annual forum in Apia in 2016. Pacific Women supports the PWPP project,...
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Women are Key to an Effective Covid-19 Pacific Response
Pacific Women Lead Publications
The impacts of COVID-19 are not gender-neutral. Women and girls face even higher rates of violence and sexual abuse, undertake more unpaid domestic work, access fewer essential health...
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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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Triennial’s ‘Snakes and Ladders’ Side Event Maps The Advances and Pitfalls of Women’s Empowerment
Pacific Women Lead Publications
An interactive and engaging 'WEE Snakes and Ladders' board game session focussed on strategic and practical measures to enhance WEE in the Pacific region. It showcased practical,...
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Press Release: Bougainville male Advocate Forum 2019
Pacific Women Lead Publications
Men from across Bougainville united during the Bougainville Male Advocates Forum (23–27 September 2019) in support of the rights of women and children to live free of violence. Over 150...
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Pacific Women Papua New Guinea Performance Report 2019 - 2020
Pacific Women Lead Publications
The Australian Government through Pacific Women has committed $104.65 million over 10 years, to 2022, to initiatives that support women’s empowerment in Papua New Guinea and the...
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Pacific Women Learning Workshop (May 2013)
Pacific Women Lead Publications
As part of the design process for the Pacific Women program, DFAT in partnership with the Pacific Islands Forum Secretariat hosted two workshops in Suva, Fiji on economic empowerment for...
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Pacific Women in Papua New Guinea Enables Almost 1.5 Million People to Access Services
Pacific Women Lead Publications
The booklet highlights the impacts of the 54 projects supported by the Papua New Guinea-Australia Partnership through Pacific Women Shaping Pacific Development (Pacific Women) from...