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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...
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Video
Advocates from the Pacific talk about engaging men to achieve 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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Pacific Young Women’s Leadership Strategy
Pacific Women Lead Publications
The Pacific Young Women’s Leadership Strategy was published in 2011 by the World YWCA with support from the Pacific Leadership Program. The strategy is presented under five themes: Safe....
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Pacific Young People’s SRHR Factsheet
Pacific Women Lead Publications
In the Pacific region 56 per cent of the population is under the age of 25. Pacific young people have diverse needs, opportunities and experiences, living as they do across 20,000 islands...
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Do No Harm: The Relationship between VAW and Women’s Economic Empowerment in the Pacific
Pacific Women Lead Publications
Even as the importance of women’s economic inclusion and empowerment is acknowledged and acted on, it is also known that such gains are not without risk; for increasing command over...
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Thematic Brief: Ending discrimination on the basis of sexuality, gender identity and expression
Pacific Women Lead Publications
In the Pacific, diverse populations contribute to Pacific communities at local and national levels, with their own preferred terms for people with diverse sexual orientations, gender...
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Pacific Women Women’s Economic Empowerment Synthesis Report
Pacific Women Lead Publications
This report on women’s economic empowerment aims to: guide future investments; prioritise approaches and activities; and provide a transparent and strategic framework for Pacific Women...
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Pacific Women Women in Leadership Synthesis Report
Pacific Women Lead Publications
This report on women in leadership aims to: guide future investments; prioritise approaches and activities; and provide a transparent and strategic framework for Pacific Women funding...
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Pacific Women Ending Violence Against Women Roadmap Synthesis Report
Pacific Women Lead Publications
This report on ending violence against women (EVAW) aims to: guide future investments; prioritise approaches and activities; and provide a transparent and strategic framework for Pacific...
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New ways of doing business in Fiji for initiatives encouraging gender-equal approaches
Pacific Women Lead Publications
Small and micro entrepreneurs, civil society actors, regional partners, government, faith-based and women’s groups came together to share challenges and different ways of doing business...
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The Relationship between VAW and WEE in Bougainville
Pacific Women Lead Publications
The Bougainville Do No Harm research confirms that women do not always gain greater empowerment when they bring money into the household because their access to economic resources does...
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Voter Education Project Final Report
Pacific Women Lead Publications
The Voter Education Project was targeted at the ‘lost generation’ of Bougainville (people aged 35 to 45 years). Over 20 months, the Bougainville Women’s Federation and International...
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Pacific Women Ending Violence Against Women General Information
Pacific Women Lead Publications
Violence against women and girls takes many different forms in the Pacific. These include intimate partner physical and/or sexual violence, non-partner sexual assault, sexual exploitation...