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Vanuatu National Gender Equality Policy 2015 - 2019
Vanuatu Environment Data Portal Publications
This first National Policy on Gender Equality affirms the Vanuatu Government’s commitment towards gender equality across all sectors and at all levels of society and the elimination of...
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Pacific Women Management Response to Progressing Gender Equality in the Pacific Project Mid Term Evaluation Report
Pacific Women Lead Publications
In late 2016, Pacific Women and the Pacific Community (SPC) commissioned a joint mid-term evaluation of SPC’s Progressing Gender Equality in the Pacific (PGEP) Project. This project,...
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RMI’s 16 Year Old Patsy Glad Joins the One Billion Rising Campaign
Pacific Women Lead Publications
For the past three years, supporters of women’s rights have been part of the global movement to end violence against women through the One Billion Rising (OBR) campaign. Launched in 2012,...
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Fiji and Vanuatu Rise to End Violence Against Women
Pacific Women Lead Publications
For the past three years Fijians have been part of the global movement to end violence against women through the One Billion Rising (OBR) campaign. Launched in 2012, OBR began as a call...
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Samoa Reviews Country Plan: Engagement and Empowerment
Pacific Women Lead Publications
Through Pacific Women, the Australian Government will spend approximately $9.3 million over 10 years to support women’s empowerment in Samoa. The first five-year Country Plan includes...
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Pacific Women Guidance Note for Knowledge Attitude and Practice Surveys
Pacific Women Lead Publications
Knowledge, attitude and practice surveys can be used to better understand and document how a group of people might see or experience an issue such as gender equality. These surveys can be...
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Local Responses to Transform Gender Based Violence into Gender Justice and Healing
Pacific Women Lead Publications
Where can you turn, as a young girl in Bougainville in Papua New Guinea, when your cousin brothers and relatives want to force you to marry a man twice your age? A Pacific Women-funded...
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Landmark Case Highlights Marital Rape as Crime
Pacific Women Lead Publications
‘This case is significant because now women know that marital rape is a crime and that they have the right to say “no”,’ says Fitilagi Fa’anunu, Director of the Family Protection Legal...
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Pacific Women Research Strategy June 2017 - June 2022
Pacific Women Lead Publications
Research plays a strategic role in the Australian Government’s mission to promote gender equality in the region through Pacific Women. This Research Strategy covers a five-year period...
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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...
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Good Decisions and Good Leadership - Young Women Show How Its Done
Pacific Women Lead Publications
The best community decisions are made when they include the views of everyone – women, girls, men and boys, including from marginalised groups. The Bougainville Women’s Federation and...
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Pacific Women Toolkit for Monitoring and Evaluation Data Collection
Pacific Women Lead Publications
Pacific Women’s M&E system operates at various levels. This includes the program level, the country level and the activity level. Each separate level has its own cycle of planning,...
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Research the Causes of Maternal Mortality
Pacific Women Lead Publications
Participants at Pacific Women’s ‘Lunch and Learn’ session on 5 September 2018 were treated to a presentation by Jennifer Litau on her research into maternal mortality in Gulf Province in...
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How to Improve Women’s Economic Agency Without Compromising Their Safety
Pacific Women Lead Publications
The Pacific Women funded Do No Harm research explored the relationship between women’s economic advancement and empowerment, and women’s experience of domestic violence. The research was...
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Supporting the Next Generation: Early Intervention to Prevent Violence
Pacific Women Lead Publications
Since April 2016, the Nazareth Centre for Rehabilitation (the Nazareth Centre) has been implementing a school-based program pilot under its ‘From Gender Based Violence to Gender Justice...
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TNCWC Signed New Funding Agreement
Pacific Women Lead Publications
The Tongan National Centre for Women and Children (TNCWC) has signed a 20-month funding agreement through Pacific Women Shaping Pacific Development (Pacific Women), an Australian...
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Evaluation Report: Gender Equality in the Pacific Project
Pacific Women Lead Publications
Progressing Gender Equality in the Pacific (PGEP) is a five-year project working with the 14 Pacific Island countries (PICs) to strengthen governments’ capacity to mainstream gender and...
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Strengthening Pacific Participation at CSW60
Pacific Women Lead Publications
A common purpose, solidarity, genuine partnerships, collaboration, strategic lobbying, addressing adaptive challenges and mobilising support were some of the key issues discussed at a...
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Pacific Girl Factsheet
Pacific Women Lead Publications
The factsheet is a snapshot of the 9,000 young people reached across 6 countries through this program ‘designed by adolescent girls for adolescent girls’. Pacific Girl supports adolescent...
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Yoshiki Yamaguchi-Chapelle Joins the Pacific Women Advisory Board
Pacific Women Lead Publications
Yoshiko Yamaguchi-Capelle is the first young Pacific Island woman to be appointed to the Pacific Women Advisory Board. She was nominated to the Board through the Pacific Young Women’s...