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The Last Taboo: Menstrual Hygiene Challenges in the Pacific
Funded under the Australian aid program’s Pacific Women Shaping Pacific Development initiative, the ‘The Last Taboo’ is the first multi-country study of menstrual hygiene in the... -
Pacific Girls Shaping Pacific Development
A new Pacific Women program focuses attention and resources on adolescents. Pacific Girl planning activities in 2017–2018 have ensured that girls and young women will shape the... -
Do No Harm Toolkit
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,... -
Safe and Secure at Work
The right to be safe cannot be measured by money. But making the business case demonstrates that ensuring women workers stay free from harm has financial as well as wellbeing... -
Helping Duty Bearers to Uphold Their Responsibilities
Duty bearers are some of the many being supported by Pacific Women partners to better serve women and children. Across countries, partners are addressing social norms that may... -
South-South Exchanges
Family support and crisis centres across the Pacific continue to assist each other to improve levels of expertise and service to support survivors of family and sexual violence. -
A Pacific Girl Program by Pacific Girls
Pacific Girl is Pacific Women’s dedicated, multi-country program to support adolescent girls to reach their full potential. It addresses priority issues identified through... -
Safe Working Conditions Make Markets a Happy, Healthy Place
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... -
Girls are the Change Makers - Just Ask Them
When Samoa hosted the 84th Session of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child in March 2020, it was the first time any United Nations treaty body held a regional session... -
Covid-19 Burden of Care Falling on Adolescent Girls
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... -
Women Market Vendors Making Executive Decisions
Across the Pacific, women comprise 75–90 per cent of market vendors. Yet decisions about markets have historically been made by market management and municipal councils... -
Dialling Up Services in Response to Covid-19
Existing gender inequalities are magnified during a crisis, with women having considerably less autonomy and mobility leading to increases in men’s violence against women. To... -
Pacific Women Shaping Pacific Development overview
This video provides an overview of Pacific Women Shaping Pacific Development a regional gender equality program supported by the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade. -
Pacific Women Program Overview (2020)
Pacific Women Shaping Pacific Development (Pacific Women) is one of the largest global commitments to gender equality. It connects more than 170 gender equality initiatives... -
Working Together to Improve Gender Equality in the Pacific
Working Together to Improve Gender Equality in the Pacific looks at the exisiting challenges of advancing gender equality in the areas of leadership and decision making,... -
Pacific Women’s Leadership Scoping Study
Outside of national politics, Pacific women are often visible as leaders. The study found that Pacific women from places as far afield as Bougainville and Samoa are leaders in... -
Witchcraft and Sorcery Related Killings in Melanesia: The Legal Issues
This short paper identifies four central insights from a legal positive perspective into killings related to sorcery and witchcraft accusations: The belief in sorcery and... -
Helpdesk Research Report: Women’s Economic Empowerment in the Pacific
This review looks at major trends in spending (comparing women and men), the chief barriers to women having more income and control of their finances, and the key opportunities... -
Developing Young Women’s Collective Action in Vanuatu
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 to... -
Developing Insecurity: Sorcery, Witchcraft and Melanesian Economic Development
This paper draws explicit links between witchcraft and sorcery practices and beliefs in Melanesia, and poor development outcomes. It notes four distinct categories of impact:...