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Helping Duty Bearers to Uphold Their Responsibilities
Pacific Women Lead Publications
Duty bearers are some of the many being supported by Pacific Women partners to better serve women and children. Across countries, partners are addressing social norms that may act as a...
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South-South Exchanges
Pacific Women Lead Publications
Family support and crisis centres across the Pacific continue to assist each other to improve levels of expertise and service to support survivors of family and sexual violence.
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Community Overcomes Birthing Taboos In Remote District
Pacific Women Lead Publications
Strict taboos were once forcing women in the remote Lufa District of Papua New Guinea to give birth in their outdoor gardens rather than the nearby health facility. This has changed, with...
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A Pacific Girl Program by Pacific Girls
Pacific Women Lead Publications
Pacific Girl is Pacific Women’s dedicated, multi-country program to support adolescent girls to reach their full potential. It addresses priority issues identified through consultations...
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Involving the Whole family to Ensure Women’s Economic Empowerment
Pacific Women Lead Publications
Two agricultural projects in Papua New Guinea are taking a family-based approach to improve gender equality. The projects are demonstrating how working with women and men farmers in their...
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Safe Working Conditions Make Markets a Happy, Healthy Place
Pacific Women Lead Publications
Between 75–90 per cent of all market vendors in the Pacific region are women. The hours are long, and vendors often travel from rural areas to sell their products to a larger market....
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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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Girls are the Change Makers - Just Ask Them
Pacific Women Lead Publications
When Samoa hosted the 84th Session of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child in March 2020, it was the first time any United Nations treaty body held a regional session outside...
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Putting the ‘Empowerment’ Back into ‘Women’s Economic Empowerment’
Pacific Women Lead Publications
The WEE snakes and ladders game developed by Pacific Women helps educate players about the importance of economic empowerment versus economic participation.
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Diverse Voices are Stronger Together
Pacific Women Lead Publications
Coalitions are addressing social norms to create a more equal society for women and men, supported by Pacific Women. They are able to harness combined resources and networks to influence...
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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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Women Market Vendors Making Executive Decisions
Pacific Women Lead Publications
Across the Pacific, women comprise 75–90 per cent of market vendors. Yet decisions about markets have historically been made by market management and municipal councils dominated by men....
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Dialling Up Services in Response to Covid-19
Pacific Women Lead Publications
Existing gender inequalities are magnified during a crisis, with women having considerably less autonomy and mobility leading to increases in men’s violence against women. To combat this...
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Thinking Outside the Box
Pacific Women Lead Publications
The Bel isi PNG initiative aims to inspire the private sector, in partnership with government and civil society. It offers employees case management and safe house services and provides...
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PNG Coffee Industry Support Project Mid-Term Evaluation Report
Pacific Women Lead Publications
Coffee production is the backbone of the rural economy in the Highlands, with an estimated 2.5 million Papua New Guineans relying on coffee as their main source of income. Yet many areas...
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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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Pacific Women Papua New Guinea Final Performance Report 2021 to 2022
Pacific Women Lead Publications
The “Pacific Women in Papua New Guinea Final Performance Report” and “Promoting Gender Equality in Papua New Guinea – Highlights 2012-2022” feature the impacts and achievements across the...
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Country Brief Papua New Guinea: A Snapshot of Project Highlights
Pacific Women Lead Publications
Through a long-term commitment by the Australian Government, Pacific Women Shaping Pacific Development (Pacific Women) connected more than 180 gender equality initiatives implemented by...
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Pacific Women Contact Information for Vulnerable Groups During Times of Crisis in Papua New Guinea
Pacific Women Lead Publications
The COVID-19 crisis and other crises disproportionately affect the most vulnerable people in our communities – women living in poverty, people living with a disability, the elderly and...