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Thematic Brief: Inclusion of Pacific women with disabilities
Pacific Women Lead Publication
This Thematic Brief provides a broad summary of information and analysis about Pacific women with disabilities. The summary includes references to associated research and...
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Dataset
Pacific Women Gender Equality and Social Inclusion Indicators
Pacific Women Lead Dataset
The COVID-19 pandemic has impacts beyond people’s health that affect different aspects of day-to-day life. All people will be impacted in some way and must adapt to the...
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Pacific Women Highlights 2012-2021
Pacific Women Lead Publication
The Pacific Women Highlights booklet provides a snapshot view of key achievements of Pacific women and men across the 14 countries supported by Pacific Women. Pacific Women has...
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Pacific Women Final Report
Pacific Women Lead Publication
The Pacific Women final report features stories highlighting the voices and key achievements of Pacific women and men across the 14 countries supported by Pacific Women Shaping...
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What works for gender transformative approaches in Papua New Guinea
Pacific Women Lead Publication
Positive gender transformative change is not only possible, it is happening in Papua New Guinea. This is detailed in the ‘What Works for Gender Transformative Approaches in...
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Pacific Practice Note: Opening Doors for Lasting Change – Gender Transformation in Practice
Pacific Women Lead Publication
Opening Doors for Lasting Change – Gender Transformation in Practice – sharing programming approaches that have led to gender transformative change in Papua New Guinea, to...
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Pacific Practice Note: Small Grants, Big Results
Pacific Women Lead Publication
Small Grants, Big Results – highlighting the catalytic role of community-based and women’s organisations to women’s empowerment and social change, this Practice Note provides an...
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Pacific Sisters with Disabilities at the Intersection of Discrimination
Pacific Women Lead Publication
This report considers each of the key areas of discrimination and disadvantage. Key interrelationships between the various challenges are discussed to illustrate the complexity...
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Hem No Leit Tumas: Evidence for Improved Outcomes in Solomon Islands – Summary Report
Pacific Women Lead Publication
The study unearthed a large amount of information about the delivery of adult literacy programs in rural communities, as well as finding some significant gaps in available...
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‘A Woman Should Be Beaten If She Deserves Punishment’: Conversations with Men and Women in Fiji and PNG
Pacific Women Lead Publication
Among the consequences of conflict over gender roles or norms, the most disempowering one is violence against women. As part of the World Bank’s qualitative study informing the...
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‘What Is Mine Is Yours’: Women’s Asset Control and Decision-Making in Fiji and PNG
Pacific Women Lead Publication
This short paper draws on narratives from communities who participated in research in Fiji and Papua New Guinea. The findings suggest that strong gender norms may constrain...
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Developing Young Women’s Collective Action in Vanuatu
Pacific Women Lead Publication
This short paper reflects on the experiences of 38 young, educated women in Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands and Vanuatu. It finds that: Young women in Melanesia are subject...
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Papuan Perspectives on Family Planning, Fertility and Birth Control
Pacific Women Lead Publication
Papuan perspectives on family planning have historically emphasised political concerns that reflect the tensions between the Indonesian state and indigenous rights – Papuans...
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The 2013 Survey on HIV in Tanah Papua: Gender, Ethnicity and ‘Casual Partners’
Pacific Women Lead Publication
This paper reports that in Tanah Papua (the western half of the island of New Guinea, currently comprising the Indonesian provinces of Papua and West Papua), there was an HIV...
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Step-by-Step: Climbing the ‘Ladder of Freedom and Power’ in Fiji and PNG
Pacific Women Lead Publication
Fiji and PNG were part of the World Bank’s qualitative study informing the World Development Report 2012: Gender Equality and Development, for which local researchers organised...
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Women’s political and administrative leadership in the Pacific
Pacific Women Lead Publication
There is growing evidence that at both national and sub-national level, the social capital of urban elites (male and female alike) does not translate into votes at the ballot...
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An Analysis of Judicial Sentencing Practices in SGBV Cases in PICs
Pacific Women Lead Publication
This study analysed a random selection of 908 cases from seven Pacific Island countries, including 111 domestic violence cases and 787 sexual assault cases. Each case is...
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Gender Research in the Pacific 1994-2014: Beginnings
Pacific Women Lead Publication
This study deals with research on eight critical areas of concern covered in the Revised Pacific Platform for Action 2005-2015: education, health, climate change and...
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Review of Gender and Infrastructure (2016)
Pacific Women Lead Publication
This review involved a desk review of policies and project documents and consultations with Pacific Region Infrastructure Facility (PRIF) agency representatives and staff from...
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Power, Politics and Coalitions in the Pacific: Lessons from Collective Action on Gender and Power
Pacific Women Lead Publication
The case studies of coalitions in Fiji, Kiribati, Papua New Guinea and Tonga highlight four influential factors in the formation and functioning of coalitions: Formative events:...