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Pacific Activities for International Women’s Day 2021
Pacific Women Lead Publications
International Women’s Day is held on 8 March every year around the world to celebrate the social, economic, cultural, and political achievements of women particularly during the COVID-19...
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Meet Lusiana Cawi
Pacific Women Lead Publications
Eighteen-year-old Lusiana Cawai is a student of the South Pacific Academy of Beauty Therapy. With support from Pacific Women, she and 24 other students are scholarship recipients enrolled...
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The Business Case for Addressing Family and Sexual Violence
Pacific Women Lead Publications
The Business Coalition for Women (BCFW) is a group of companies and corporate leaders who are helping the private sector in PNG to recruit, retrain and promote women as employees,...
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Cook Islands Using Smart Infograph’s to Explain Gender Statistics
Pacific Women Lead Publications
Quality statistics help everybody in a project cycle. However, data is only as good as our ability to understand, interpret and use the information that is presented. Through the PGEP...
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Strong Leadership for the New Kiribati Women and Children Support Centre
Pacific Women Lead Publications
Funded under the Australian aid program’s Pacific Women Shaping Pacific Development initiative, and with support from the Kiribati Family Health Association, the Kiribati Women and...
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Women and Children Crisis Centre (WCCC) Tonga Turns 5
Pacific Women Lead Publications
The Director of the Women and Children Crisis Centre (WCCC) Tonga, and her staff, deal with cases of domestic violence, rape, incest and other forms of sexual and physical abuse involving...
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An Exciting Opportunity for Sonam Narayan
Pacific Women Lead Publications
Sonam Narayan is a student of the South Pacific Academy of Beauty Therapy. With support from Pacific Women, she and 24 other students are scholarship recipients enrolled in a Certificate...
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Why Are There No Women in Papua New Guinea’s Parliament?
Pacific Women Lead Publications
Papua New Guinea has a history of extremely low rates of women in parliament. Only seven women have ever been elected in over 40 years and no women were elected to the 111 seat parliament...
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Miki Wall - Host, Producer and Broadcaster
Pacific Women Lead Publications
Miki Wali is the host of FemLINKPACIFIC’s radio program Miki on Monday’s which is part of the weekday Rainbow Connections series which sees the Haus of Khameleon, Rainbow Women’s Network...
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From Participation to Power: Journeys through Women’s Economic Empowerment - The Game!
Pacific Women Lead Publications
This adaptation of ‘snakes and ladders’ illustrates the multiple factors that can create opportunities or pitfalls on the journey towards women’s economic empowerment. The board game is a...
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Evaluation How Gender Justice Can Transform Lives
Pacific Women Lead Publications
Evaluations help us understand the effectiveness of projects, documenting the successes and challenges of working in a particular way. The evaluation of the first phase of the Nazareth...
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Putting Gender Equality Centre Stage in the Pacific
United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and The Pacific (UNESCAP) Publications
This short policy brief states women’s empowerment is important because: Women’s empowerment contributes to economic growth. Marginalisation of women in Pacific island labour markets...
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Born Leaders: Supporting Women Matai in Samoa
Pacific Women Lead Publications
In Samoa, each family has its own matai title holders, which are leadership or chiefly titles. This provides a unique opportunity for women’s empowerment and leadership initiatives in...
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The Everyday Challenges for Counsellors in the Republic of the Marshall Islands
Pacific Women Lead Publications
Five women in the Republic of the Marshall Islands (RMI) are making a difference by operating the country’s first counselling service, Weto in Mour. Weto in Mour is operated by Women...
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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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Radio Adventures Promoting Positive Parenting
Pacific Women Lead Publications
A home-grown radio program has been developed to help mums, dads and other family members to understand children’s development needs. Raun Wantaim Savemahn (Hangout with Savemahn) is set...
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Local Action, Global Movements: WUTMI Commemorates the 16 Days of Activism 2018
Pacific Women Lead Publications
In November and December 2018, Women United Together Marshall Islands (WUTMI) joined government ministries, local civil society organisations and the global gender equality movement in...
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Gender-Based Violence Prevention: Lessons from World Bank Impact Evaluations
Pacific Women Lead Publications
Emerging policy lessons from World Bank evaluations of programs to prevent violence against women include: Programs to increase women’s economic empowerment may reduce GBV by increasing...
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Population and Development Profiles: Pacific Islands Countries
Pacific Women Lead Publications
This report contains population and demographic data and development profiles for 15 Pacific countries. Four of these countries (Solomon Islands, Kiribati, Tuvalu and Vanuatu) are...
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Women’s Economic Empowerment: How Women Contribute to and Benefit from Growth
Pacific Women Lead Publications
This Strategic Guidance Note explains the background to and international thinking on women’s economic empowerment and then explains how the Market Development Facility programme...