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Household Allocation And Efficiency Of Time In Papua New Guinea
This report looks at how gender-differentiated domestic work burdens impact the ability of women to allocate their labour to the cultivation, harvesting and processing of coffee... -
Gender Inclusive Value Chains: Improving Women’s Participation in Solomon Islands
A multidonor initiative, the Second Rural Development Program (RDP II) was designed to improve basic infrastructure and services in rural areas and to strengthen the linkages... -
Presentation: Ten things learned about sorcery accusations and related...
Violence related to accusations of sorcery is a serious problem. It can lead to economic disempowerment, poor health, insecurity, persecution and violence, including torture and... -
DevPolicyBlog_Family-protection-orders-in-Lae-some-positive-signs
A report from Femili PNG and the Australian National University (ANU) shows that the issuing of protection orders by the Lae District Court is becoming more efficient. The data,... -
First research into protection orders – efficiency is improving in Lae
A report from Femili PNG and the Australian National University (ANU) shows that the issuing of protection orders by the Lae District Court is becoming more efficient. The data,... -
Exploring the impact of family and sexual violence on families and children
Researchers from Australian National University, University of Papua New Guinea and the Lae University of Technology explored the connections between women’s experiences of... -
Tackling Childcare: The Business Case for Employer Supported Childcare in Fiji
Each year, businesses and the public sector in Fiji are losing an average of 12.7 workdays per employee due to the responsibilities of working parents. Limited, unregulated and... -
The Business Case for Workplace Responses to Domestic and Sexual Violence in Fiji
Fiji has one of the highest rates of domestic and sexual violence in the world with almost two-thirds of the country’s women experiencing domestic or sexual violence during... -
How Do Perceptions of Relative Poverty Affect Women’s Empowerment?
Employing an established survey treatment to subtly alter respondents’ perception of their relative economic wellbeing, it was noted that increased feelings of relative poverty... -
Pacific Women Thematic Brief: Gender and COVID-19 in the Pacific
Health pandemics have specific and severe impacts on the lives of women and girls. Since the COVID-19 outbreak first had reported cases, the gendered impacts began being... -
Pacific Women Thematic Brief: Impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on adolescent...
This Thematic Brief discusses five key messages about the emerging impacts of COVID-19 on adolescent girsl in the Pacific: Disrupted education: School closures have disrupted... -
Pacific Feminists and Activists: Re-framing, Re-articulating and...
In this statement, Pacific feminist, Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights advocates call for: Papua New Guinea State to repeal the Sorcery Act and investigate and prosecute... -
Rise Up! Evaluation Report
The evaluation of the Rise Up! program found: 93% of participants reported that they shared information on what they learnt through Rise Up! informally with their peers, family... -
Evaluation of the Gender Equality and Political Governance Project (GEPG)
The overall goal of the Gender Equality in Political Governance program was to advance gender equality in political governance in the Pacific and its objective was to increase... -
The Women’s Economic Opportunity Index (WEOI) and the Pacific: A Summary
Highlights of this Pacific summary of the 2012 Women’s Economic Empowerment Index include: Fiji is the highest ranked Pacific country (81 out of 128 ranked countries). Solomon... -
Women in Power: Beyond Access to Influence in a Post-2015 World
The global process under way to develop a new international development framework after the Millennium Development Goals expire in 2015 provides an opportunity to address the... -
12th Triennial Conference of Pacific Women
With the theme of ‘Celebrating our Progress, Shaping our World’, the Conference highlighted the progress made so far towards gender equality while recognising that the Pacific... -
A Measure of the Future: Women’s Sexual and Reproductive Risk Index for the Pacific
The reproductive risk index ranks 21 of the 22 Pacific Island Countries and Territories (PICTs) according to ten key sexual and reproductive health and rights indicators. In... -
Fiji Young Women’s Forum Outcomes Statement 2013
The Fiji Young Women’s’ Forum convened by Diverse Voices and Action for Equality (DIVA), Emerging Leaders Forum Alumni, Young Women Producers and Broadcasters - FemLINKpacific... -
I Am Not A Lost Cause: Young Women’s Empowerment and Teenage Pregnancy in the Pacific
This report focuses on the experiences of adolescent pregnancy and motherhood. It highlights the challenges that adolescent mothers face when pregnant and as mothers. Over the...
