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Safe and Secure at Work
Pacific Women Lead Publications
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 benefits.
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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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Born Leaders: Supporting Women Matai in Samoa
Pacific Women Lead Publications
In Samoa, each family has its own matai title holders, which are leadership or chiefly titles. This provides a unique opportunity for women’s empowerment and leadership initiatives in...
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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...
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Women and Young People Influence Government Policy
Pacific Women Lead Publications
More than 70 women and young people gathered in Tuvalu’s capital of Funafuti for the Tuvalu National Women and Youth Forum. It was the first forum of its kind, bringing together women and...
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Helping Duty Bearers to Uphold Their Responsibilities
Pacific Women Lead Publications
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 act as a...
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A Platform for Sustaining Feminist Fierceness
Pacific Women Lead Publications
The reasons why the second Pacific Feminist Forum was important are as varied as the 150 participants who attended. The civil society-led forum brought together diverse, feminist women...
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South-South Exchanges
Pacific Women Lead Publications
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.
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This Is The Same Thing My Pacific Sisters Are Going Through
Pacific Women Lead Publications
Ms Harris was one of 34 selected Australia Awards scholars from 10 Pacific Island countries participating in the 2019 round of the Women’s Leadership Initiative (WLI), supported by...
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Community Overcomes Birthing Taboos In Remote District
Pacific Women Lead Publications
Strict taboos were once forcing women in the remote Lufa District of Papua New Guinea to give birth in their outdoor gardens rather than the nearby health facility. This has changed, with...
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A Pacific Girl Program by Pacific Girls
Pacific Women Lead Publications
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 consultations...
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Small Grants Can Lead to Big Opportunities
Pacific Women Lead Publications
Since 2017, the Fiji Women’s Fund has been rolling out a new model of granting and capacity support for women’s organisations, groups and networks in Fiji.
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Involving the Whole family to Ensure Women’s Economic Empowerment
Pacific Women Lead Publications
Two agricultural projects in Papua New Guinea are taking a family-based approach to improve gender equality. The projects are demonstrating how working with women and men farmers in their...
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From the Ground Up: Women’s Groups Create New Crisis Services
Pacific Women Lead Publications
Dedicated women’s groups in small island states are leading the creation of safe spaces and the provision of quality services for women and children experiencing violence. Three countries...
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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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The Importance of Building Women’s Leadership at all Levels
Pacific Women Lead Publications
In the early years of Pacific Women’s programming, a high proportion of the projects to support women’s leadership and decision making were focused on women’s political leadership. These...
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Girls are the Change Makers - Just Ask Them
Pacific Women Lead Publications
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 outside...
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Bridging the Gap: From Protective Laws to Real Change for Women
Pacific Women Lead Publications
Solomon Islands became the first Pacific Island country to launch guidelines and support for domestic violence counsellors, released in 2020. More than double the global average of women...
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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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Getting a Better Balance and Acceptance for Both Women and Men as Great Leaders
Pacific Women Lead Publications
Supportive community attitudes are essential in improving’s women’s involvement in leadership and decision making. Initiated through Pacific Women, the Balance of Power is a dedicated...