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Hem No Leit Tumas: Evidence for Improved Outcomes in Solomon Islands – Summary Report
Pacific Women Lead Publications
The study unearthed a large amount of information about the delivery of adult literacy programs in rural communities, as well as finding some significant gaps in available information....
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Gender Violence & Human Rights: Seeking Justice in Fiji, PNG and Vanuatu
Pacific Women Lead Publications
This volume critically interrogates the relation between gender violence and human rights as Fiji, Papua New Guinea nad Vanuatu and their communities and citizens engage with,...
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Mapping of existing legislation, programs and other mechanisms to support Women’s Leadership in the Pacific
Pacific Women Lead Publications
This mapping paper examines the environment for women’s leadership in the Pacific. It looks at the key international and regional gender equality instruments, domestic laws, regulations...
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Sentinel-2 Satellite Imagery - Vanuatu
Vanuatu Environment Data Portal Publications
SENTINEL-2 is a wide-swath, high-resolution, multi-spectral imaging mission, supporting Copernicus Land Monitoring studies, including the monitoring of vegetation, soil and water cover,...
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Ocean Data from Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS)
Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP) Publications
MODIS (or Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer) is a key instrument aboard the Terra (originally known as EOS AM-1) and Aqua (originally known as EOS PM-1) satellites. Terra's...
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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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Deep Water Fisheries Catch - Sea Around Us
Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP) Publications
The Sea Around Us is a research initiative at The University of British Columbia (located at the Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries, formerly Fisheries Centre) that assesses the...
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An Analysis of Judicial Sentencing Practices in SGBV Cases in PICs
Pacific Women Lead Publications
This study analysed a random selection of 908 cases from seven Pacific Island countries, including 111 domestic violence cases and 787 sexual assault cases. Each case is analysed to...
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UN Multi Country Study on Men and Violence
Pacific Women Lead Publications
This report provides findings from a study conducted with men in Bangladesh, Cambodia, China, Indonesia, Sri Lanka and Papua New Guinea on their use of violence against women. The study...
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Using Mobile Phones to Track Anti-Witchcraft Violence in Papua New Guinea
Pacific Women Lead Publications
This short paper details a pilot project using mobile phones to record and report data about accusations of witchcraft at funerals. The pilot is part of a growing body of work that uses...
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Samoa Family Health and Safety Study
The Pacific Community (SPC) Publications
The Samoan study shows that violence against women is prevalent: 37.6% of women who have ever been in a relationship are likely to have experienced physical abuse by their partner. 18.6%...
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Sorcery Accusation Related Violence in Papua New Guinea
Pacific Women Lead Publications
This major research study into sorcery accusation-related violence in Papua New Guinea found that over the past 20 years, an average of 72 people per year are victims of sorcery...
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UN Women Fiji Multi-Country Office’s Annual Report 2014
UN Women Publications
This annual report notes that the eyes of the world were focused on Samoa and the wider region for the Small Islands Developing States Conference and UN Women’s Executive Director,...
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Measuring Poverty As If Gender Matters: Perspectives from Fieldwork in Fiji
Pacific Women Lead Publications
This research project was aimed at synthesising and integrating various experiences and perspectives on poverty held both by poor women and men and by professional poverty experts. The...
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Gender-Based and Sorcery-Related Violence in Papua New Guinea: An analysis of data collected from Oxfam partners 2013-2016
Pacific Women Lead Publications
This report details data from 6,176 icidents of gender-based or sorcery accussation-related violence collected by seven women’s and human rights defenders’ organisations working across...
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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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Kiribati Family Health and Support Study
The Pacific Community (SPC) Publications
The Kiribati study shows that violence against women is prevalent: More than 2 in 3 (68%) ever-partnered women aged 15–49 reported experiencing physical or sexual violence, or both, by an...
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Poverty Measurement: What’s Gender Got to do with it? Findings from Fiji: Part 1
Pacific Women Lead Publications
This short paper reports on planned research in Fiji, the first country in the Pacific to pilot a measure of poverty at an individual level from a gender perspective. Pacific Island...
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Putting Gender into the Equation: Impact Evaluation of Seasonal Worker Program
Pacific Women Lead Publications
At the opening of the 2014 State of the Pacific Conference organised by the State, Society and Governance in Melanesia Program, Foreign Minister Julie Bishop noted the Australian...
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Review of Counselling Services in the Pacific
Pacific Women Lead Publications
To better understand the nature and availability of counselling services for gender-based violence, a survey involving a self-assessment questionnaire was conducted to map counselling...