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Nauru Takes Stock of its Gender Mainstreaming Capacity
Pacific Women Lead Publications
The PGEP program is supported by Pacific Women to help national governments and civil society to develop specific strategies for increasing capacity to mainstream gender. In 2015, the...
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Extending the Reach of Family Welfare Services
Pacific Women Lead Publications
Walking uphill to the hospital in the tropical heat whilst heavily pregnant to access the ultrasound at the main hospital was not something that Cook Islander women looked forward to....
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Learning Exchanges and Preparatory Electoral Contestant Workshops for Women Leaders
Pacific Women Lead Publications
The implementation of TSM legislation for women to be elected into councils at municipal level in Vanuatu ensures a minimum 30 percent representation of women. Activities supported by...
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Progressing Gender Equality in Tuvalu
Pacific Women Lead Publications
Pacific Women is investing $1.8 million over three years to implement the Tuvalu Country Plan. Great steps were made in 2016 towards empowering women in the outer islands and those with...
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Pacific Women's Parliamentary Partnerships Lead to a Action on Diabetes Epidemic
Pacific Women Lead Publications
The Hon Dr Puakena Boreham, Tuvalu’s only woman MP and the Hon Judi Moylan, a former member of the Australian House of Representatives, have formed a partnership that is positively...
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Thinking and Working Politically Following a Set Back
Pacific Women Lead Publications
The year 2015 was an extraordinary year for gender equality in Tongan politics. In February, the Government announced at the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women that it would...
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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...