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Investing in Women is Smart Business
Pacific Women Lead Publications
With support from Pacific Women, SIWIBA has established a Business Development Centre, where women can access training, learning materials and resources. Training is offered in a range of...
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Ensuring that Survivors’ Stories are Documented Sensitively
Pacific Women Lead Publications
Vois Blong Mere Solomon (VBMS), meaning Voice of Women, is a non-government organisation in Solomon Islands that engages with the media to improve gender-sensitive reporting. VBMS staff...
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Samoan Women Shaping Development
Pacific Women Lead Publications
The Pacific Women-funded Samoan Women Shaping Development program is implemented by the Samoan Ministry of Women, Community and Social Development with civil society, government and...
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Expanding Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights Services
Pacific Women Lead Publications
The Samoa Family Health Association (SFHA) is Samoa’s leading provider of sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) services. With support from IPPF, SFHA provided services to more...
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MPs in RMI Take Action to End Violence Against Women
Pacific Women Lead Publications
Members of the Nitijela (Parliament) of RMI put strong recommendations to the President on ending violence against women following the 2016 Human Rights Dialogue facilitated by SPC RRRT,...
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Consultations to Meet the Needs of Women in RMI
Pacific Women Lead Publications
Pacific Women supported WUTMI to conduct far reaching consultations to ensure that the first support service for women and girls experiencing violence in the RMI will rightly respond to...
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The Business Case for Addressing Family and Sexual Violence
Pacific Women Lead Publications
The Business Coalition for Women (BCFW) is a group of companies and corporate leaders who are helping the private sector in PNG to recruit, retrain and promote women as employees,...
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Participatory Action Research: Strengthening Project Implementation
Pacific Women Lead Publications
Educators, defenders, advocates and activists these are all roles that women human rights defenders (WHRDs) play in the Autonomous Region of Bougainville. In the project From Gender Based...
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Senator Sandra Pierantozzi, A Trailblazer for Palauan Women in Politics
Pacific Women Lead Publications
The Hon Senator Sandra Pierantozzi was Palau’s first woman Senator and first woman Vice President. Now she’s running for President in the country’s November 2016 elections.
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Palauan Men Rethink Feminism
Pacific Women Lead Publications
In June 2016, Pacific Women supported two participants from Palau to attend the month long Regional Training Programme run by FWCC. After attending the training, the two counsellors have...
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Developing Robust Family Law Legislation
Pacific Women Lead Publications
At the invitation of the Government of Niue, SPC RRRT has been assisting with the development of legislative reforms in the area of family law. SPC RRRT’s assistance for the development...
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Sharing Experiences from 17 Years as a Pacific Woman MP
Pacific Women Lead Publications
The Hon Va’aiga Tukuitonga has been a Member of Parliament in Niue for 17 years and attended her third PWPP project annual forum in Apia in 2016. Pacific Women supports the PWPP project,...
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Pre-Election Women’s Practice Practice Parliament in Nauru
Pacific Women Lead Publications
In preparation for Nauru’s election in June 2016, 30 women and men from Nauru’s 14 districts participated in a Women’s Practice Parliament initiative. As well as role playing as members...
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A Fair Legal Response to Violence Against Women on Remote Islands
Pacific Women Lead Publications
Pacific Women is supporting the judiciary in Kiribati to reach out to some of the most remote communities in the country. The judiciary’s Enabling Rights project raises awareness both...
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Using the Law and Community Participation for Protection
Pacific Women Lead Publications
Families in Kiribati are participating in UNICEF’s positive parenting program to promote homes, communities and schools that are free from violence, abuse and exploitation. Kiribati also...
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Optimising technical Assistance Through Partnership
Pacific Women Lead Publications
Pacific Women and SPC are trialling an innovative technical assistance model through the joint engagement of a gender equality adviser. The adviser, employed by SPC, supports both Pacific...
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Promoting Full and Equal Participation for Women and Girls Living with Disabilities
Pacific Women Lead Publications
Discrimination can be twofold for women and girls living with disabilities. They can experience unequal treatment because of their gender and also because of their disability. In FSM,...
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Harnessing the Power of Coalitions
Pacific Women Lead Publications
Four organisations have demonstrated that by working together as a coalition, they can increase their reach and impact. The vision of the We Rise Coalition is a Pacific where there is...
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Cook Islands Using Smart Infograph’s to Explain Gender Statistics
Pacific Women Lead Publications
Quality statistics help everybody in a project cycle. However, data is only as good as our ability to understand, interpret and use the information that is presented. Through the PGEP...
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Making Our Families Safe Through Collective Action at the Provincial Level
Pacific Women Lead Publications
In Solomon Islands, the Safe Families project strives to create a country where family and sexual violence is no longer considered acceptable behaviour. It is taking an innovative...