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Changing attitudes and mindsets towards violence against women in Lilisiana Village
Pacific Women Lead Publications
The ‘Let’s make our Families Safe’ (Safe Families) project is implemented by Oxfam in partnership with the International Women’s Development Agency, the Pacific Leadership Program, as...
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Pacific Feminists Working for Change
Pacific Women Lead Publications
The inaugural Pacific Feminist Forum brought together feminists, women human rights defenders and gender equality advocates from across the Pacific. Participants joined in three days of...
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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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Progressing Gender Equality Amongst Semi-Autonomous States
Pacific Women Lead Publications
The four states of the Federated States of Micronesia (FSM) span nearly 2,700 km of ocean. In her work to progress the adoption of a national gender policy, Ms Norleen Oliver knows first-...
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Fiji Women's Fund Established and Poised to Make First Grants
Pacific Women Lead Publications
In its first year, the Fiji Women’s Fund (the Fund) is well underway, having established relevant governance and management systems and conducting its first call for proposals. Ensuring...
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Gender Smart Safety Resources
Pacific Women Lead Publications
The Papua New Guinea Business Coalition for Women, with support from the International Finance Corporation, works with members to develop and adopt policies and practices that encourage...
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Whole of Government Responsibility for Gender Mainstreaming
Pacific Women Lead Publications
The Progressing Gender Equality in the Pacific program (PGEP) supports governments to improve their capacity to mainstream gender equality considerations and responses and to collect and...
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A Business Forum for Women in Cook Islands
Pacific Women Lead Publications
International Women’s Day is celebrated annually around the world on 8 March. To mark the occasion in 2017, Pacific Women support a two-day Women’s Business Forum in Cook Islands.
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Building Projects, Building Women Leaders
Pacific Women Lead Publications
In Bougainville, women are changing community perceptions of the role of women as leaders by leading local infrastructure projects and using this experience as a springboard to other...
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Building on the Success of the Malampa Handicraft Centre
Pacific Women Lead Publications
The Malampa Handicraft Centre is a local initiative that has become a vibrant and thriving place for producers to sell their handicrafts. It is now looking to grow from a community run...
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Enhancing Social Work and Counselling Qualifications of Nauruans
Pacific Women Lead Publications
Local counselling and social work capacity in Nauru is being enhanced through the Pacific Community Health and Wellbeing Education project. Five women and one man undertaking a Diploma in...
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Responding Equitably in Times of Disaster
Pacific Women Lead Publications
The Pacific may have the reputation for having a tropical climate, but RMI has a long history of low rain falls. During 2015–2016 the drought situation was so severe that the Governments...
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Independent, Educated Voters in Bougainville
Pacific Women Lead Publications
The Bougainville Women’s Federation and International Women’s Development Agency are implementing the Voter Education Project to provide education on voting rights and responsibilities....
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The Importance of Non-State Actors in Progressing Gender Equality
Pacific Women Lead Publications
As a signatory to the Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW), FSM reports regularly to the CEDAW Committee on the country’s progress towards...
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Privacy and Quality Services fro Survivors of Violence
Pacific Women Lead Publications
The Ending Sexual and Gender Based Violence (ESGBV) Policy and 10-year National Action Plan outline the Kiribati Government’s approach to ending violence against women. The ESGBV...
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Developing Women’s Passions and Marketable Skills
Pacific Women Lead Publications
The Fiji Muslim Women’s League is a non-government organisation that has been operating the Makoi Women’s Vocational Training Centre in Suva since September 2015. Pacific Women funding...
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Small Grant to Achieve Big Results
Pacific Women Lead Publications
Noticing a high number of children street vendors, the Pacific Women-funded Samoan Women Shaping Development program (SWSPD) investigated. They discovered the underlying causes leading to...
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Empowering Women Starts within the Family
Pacific Women Lead Publications
Research on the interconnectedness of women’s economic empowerment and their decision making and safety in the family is informing programming to improve women’s livelihoods.
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Niue’s Clerk Trained to Promote Gender Equality in the Parliament
Pacific Women Lead Publications
Pacific clerks and senior parliamentary staff attended the Outrigger Facilitators’ workshop in Canberra, Australia in November 2016. The Outrigger training program on navigating gender...
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Ideas to Lift the Barriers to Women’s Economic Empowerment
Pacific Women Lead Publications
In April 2017, stakeholders gathered to validate and inform a Pacific Women scoping study undertaken by the Pacific Community’s Gender Equality Adviser in the North Pacific, funded by...