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Thematic Brief: Women and Climate Change in the Pacific
Pacific Women Lead Publications
This Thematic Brief provides information and analysis about climate change issues affecting women and girls in the Pacific Islands region. It has been developed by the Support Unit of...
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Thematic Brief: Women's Economic Empowerment in the Pacific
Pacific Women Lead Publications
This Thematic Brief provides a broad summary of information and analysis about women’s economic empowerment in the Pacific Islands region. The summary includes references to associated...
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Pacific Brief: Gender, Climate Change and Disaster Risk Management
UN Women Publications
Climate change is a real and growing threat to livelihoods, cultures, ecosystems and lives in the Pacific region. Gender and climate change are closely linked issues. Women, girls, boys,...
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Changing Market Culture in the Pacific
Pacific Women Lead Publications
Addressing the multiple dimensions of gender inequality requires commitments by policy-makers, practitioners and scholars to transformative practices. One challenge is to assemble a...
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Gender Research in the Pacific 1994-2014: Beginnings
Pacific Women Lead Publications
This study deals with research on eight critical areas of concern covered in the Revised Pacific Platform for Action 2005-2015: education, health, climate change and environment, economic...
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Pacific Women Gender Transformative Change Brief in Papua New Guinea
Pacific Women Lead Publications
This brief provides examples of gender transformative changes achieved by initiatives in Papua New Guinea. It describes practical, proven approaches for gender-transformative change and...
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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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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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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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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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The Last Taboo: Research on Managing Menstruation in the Pacific
Pacific Women Lead Publications
Key findings from this research into women’s and girl’s experiences of menstruation in Fiji, Papua New Guinea and Solomon Islands are: Adolescent girls and women face a number of...
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The Last Taboo: Research on Managing Menstruation in the Pacific Fiji
Pacific Women Lead Publications
Key findings from this research into women’s and girl’s experiences of menstruation in Fiji, Papua New Guinea and Solomon Islands are: Adolescent girls and women face a number of...
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The Last Taboo: Research on Managing Menstruation in the Pacific - Solomon Island
Pacific Women Lead Publications
Key findings from this research into women’s and girl’s experiences of menstruation in Fiji, Papua New Guinea and Solomon Islands are: Adolescent girls and women face a number of...
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The Last Taboo: Research on Managing Menstruation in the Pacific PNG
Pacific Women Lead Publications
Key findings from this research into women’s and girl’s experiences of menstruation in Fiji, Papua New Guinea and Solomon Islands are: Adolescent girls and women face a number of...
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The Last Taboo: Research on Managing Menstruation in the Pacific Literature Review
Pacific Women Lead Publications
Key findings from this research into women’s and girl’s experiences of menstruation in Fiji, Papua New Guinea and Solomon Islands are: Adolescent girls and women face a number of...
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UN Women’s position of the post 2015 stand alone goal on achieving gender equality
UN Women Publications
This paper supports the case for a transformative goal on gender equality, women’s rights and women’s empowerment. The case for a stand-alone gender-related goal, as well as addressing...
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Promoting Economic Opportunities for All
Australian Government Publications
The Australian Government’s ‘Gender Equality Thematic Strategy, Promoting opportunities for all’ identifies economic empowerment and livelihood security as Pillar 3 of the strategy...
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Do No Harm Research Report: Solomon Islands
Pacific Women Lead Publications
This research, exploring connections between women’s economic empowerment initiatives and increased violence against women in Solomon Islands, found that any equation between women’s...
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The Double Burden: Impact of Economic Empowerment Initiatives on Women’s Workload
Pacific Women Lead Publications
The research demonstrated that, in general, women’s increased involvement in community financial management and income generation has not necessarily led to a redistribution of caring...