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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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Improving the Marketing and Financial Literacy of Market Vendors
Pacific Women Lead Publications
Between 75 and 90 percent of market vendors in the Pacific region are women. The money earned by these women is often pivotal in paying for important family expenses such as children’s...
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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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Voices from the Vendors
Pacific Women Lead Publications
In just over three years, UN Women’s Markets for Change (M4C) project has made substantial progress towards achieving its outcomes. The best people to explain how the project is...
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Do No Harm Toolkit
Pacific Women Lead Publications
International Women’s Development Agency (IWDA) has produced a toolkit that enables organisations to apply learning from the Do No Harm research to their project design, implementation...
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A Platform of Action for Women’s Economic Empowerment
Pacific Women Lead Publications
The theme at the 13th Triennial Conference of Pacific Women and 6th Meeting of Pacific Ministers for Women held in Suva in October 2017 was the importance of women’s economic empowerment...
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Flexible Funding for Women’s Organisations
Pacific Women Lead Publications
There is growing evidence that supporting women’s groups, networks, organisations and the women’s movement is an effective way to bring about gender equality. Pacific Women has...
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What Does an Economically Empowered Pacific Woman Look Like?
Pacific Women Lead Publications
More than 240 Pacific Islanders, researchers, policy makers and development practitioners from nine countries gathered to share ideas and lessons learned. They contributed to the...
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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 are Key to an Effective Covid-19 Pacific Response
Pacific Women Lead Publications
The impacts of COVID-19 are not gender-neutral. Women and girls face even higher rates of violence and sexual abuse, undertake more unpaid domestic work, access fewer essential health...
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Starting or Growing a Business? How a Women’s Business Resource Centre Can Help
Pacific Women Lead Publications
The WBRC is an entrepreneurial hub assisting women to establish and strengthen their businesses, based in Papua New Guinea’s capital of Port Moresby. Since it was established by the...