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Do No Harm Research Report: Papua New Guinea and Bougainville
Pacific Women Lead Publications
This research, exploring connections between women’s economic empowerment initiatives and increased violence against women in two provinces of Papua New Guinea and the Autonomous Region...
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Women MPs in Samoa and Kiribati
Pacific Women Lead Publications
This short paper looks at the example of women parliamentarians in Kiribati and Samoa to identify common characteristics of women who have been successful at being elected: Coming from a...
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Swimming Against the Tide: Lessons Learned from Field Research on Violence Against Women in the Solomon Islands and Kiribati
United Nations Population Fund Publications
Lessons from the UNFPA’s process of conducting researching violence against women in Kiribati and Solomon Islands included: There is overwhelming evidence that the studies in the Solomon...
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Pacific Women and Fiji Women’s Fund Fiji Annual Reflection and Planning Workshop 2018 Report
Pacific Women Lead Publications
This report summarises the workshop approach, objectives, key learning outcomes and participant recommendations of the third Pacific Women and Fiji Women’s Fund Fiji Annual Reflection and...
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Pacific Regional ICDP Review
United Nations Population Fund Publications
This review looks at progress toward the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) Programme of Action’s goals on the following themes: Sexual and reproductive health...
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Vanuatu National Survey on Women’s Lives and Family Relationships
Pacific Women Lead Publications
The Vanuatu study shows that violence against women is prevalent: Among women who have ever had an intimate sexual relationship with a partner, 60% experienced physical and/or sexual...
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Political Representation and Women’s Empowerment in Samoa
Pacific Women Lead Publications
Samoan women have achieved approximate equality to men in most modern spheres of government and the economy, but have never succeeded in winning more than five seats in the 49-seat...
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First Day of the Annual Learning Workshop of Pacific Women in Papua New Guinea
Pacific Women Lead Publications
Positive gender transformative change is not only possible, it is happening in Papua New Guinea. Pacific Women is one of the largest global commitments to gender equality. It aims to...
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State of the World’s Population Report 2013: Motherhood in Childhood
United Nations Population Fund Publications
Every day, 20,000 girls below age 18 give birth in developing countries. Births to girls also occur in developed countries but on a much smaller scale. Most of the world’s births to...
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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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Pacific Women Enhancing Agency General Information
Pacific Women Lead Publications
Efforts to enhance women’s agency need to work at multiple levels, to help create an enabling environment where a woman’s right to make decisions about her own life is recognised, where...
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Fiji Women’s Fund Gender Equality and Social Inclusion Toolkit
Pacific Women Lead Publications
This toolkit provides sequential activities to support organisations to ensure that gender equality and the empowerment of women are integrated into their programming. The activities are:...
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Building Projects, Building Women Leaders
Pacific Women Lead Publications
In Bougainville, women are changing community perceptions of the role of women as leaders by leading local infrastructure projects and using this experience as a springboard to other...
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Increasing Women’s Economic Empowerment in the Pacific
UN Women Publications
Women’s economic empowerment is the ability of women to bring about positive changes in their lives and societies as a result of their participation in economic activities. Enhancing...
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UN Trust Fund Annual Report 2015
Pacific Women Lead Publications
This is a global annual report for the UN Trust Fund to End Violence againts Women. Global statistics include: 1 in 3 women worldwide have experienced either physical and/or sexual...
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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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We don’t whisper anymore: ending violence against women in the North Pacific
Pacific Women Lead Publications
We don’t whisper anymore – ending violence against women in the North Pacific – a set of two online publications: gender-based violence (GBV) photo book of Herstories and a ‘story of...
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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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Relationships for Young People that are Free form Violence
Pacific Women Lead Publications
In Vanuatu, a life skills project working with adolescent girls and boys is showing promising results in changing attitudes towards violence against women. In Vanuatu, CARE’s Good...
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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...