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How Do Perceptions of Relative Poverty Affect Women’s Empowerment?
Pacific Women Lead Publications
Employing an established survey treatment to subtly alter respondents’ perception of their relative economic wellbeing, it was noted that increased feelings of relative poverty make both...
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Pacific Women Thematic Brief: Gender and COVID-19 in the Pacific
Pacific Women Lead Publications
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 documented in the...
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Pacific Women Thematic Brief: Impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on adolescent girls in the Pacific
Pacific Women Lead Publications
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 girl’s...
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Stocktake of Gender Mainstreaming in the Republic of the Marshall Islands
The Pacific Community (SPC) Publications
The Pacific Community (SPC), in collaboration with the Asian Development Bank and UN Women conducts assessments of national governments’ capacity to conduct gender mainstreaming of...
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Stocktake of Gender Mainstreaming in the Solomon Islands
The Pacific Community (SPC) Publications
The Pacific Community (SPC), in collaboration with the Asian Development Bank and UN Women conducts assessments of national governments’ capacity to conduct gender mainstreaming of...
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Stocktake of Gender Mainstreaming in the Federated States of Micronesia
The Pacific Community (SPC) Publications
The Pacific Community (SPC), in collaboration with the Asian Development Bank and UN Women conducts assessments of national governments’ capacity to conduct gender mainstreaming of...
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Stocktake of Gender Mainstreaming in Papua New Guinea
The Pacific Community (SPC) Publications
The Pacific Community (SPC), in collaboration with the Asian Development Bank and UN Women conducts assessments of national governments’ capacity to conduct gender mainstreaming of...
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Stocktake of Gender Mainstreaming in the Cook Islands
The Pacific Community (SPC) Publications
The Pacific Community (SPC), in collaboration with the Asian Development Bank and UN Women conducts assessments of national governments’ capacity to conduct gender mainstreaming of...
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Stocktake of Gender Mainstreaming in Tonga
The Pacific Community (SPC) Publications
The Pacific Community (SPC), in collaboration with the Asian Development Bank and UN Women conducts assessments of national governments’ capacity to conduct gender mainstreaming of...
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Ending Violence Against Women and Girls: Evidence, Data and Knowledge in Pacific Island Countries
UN Women Publications
This literature review and annotated bibliography synthesises material on the social context in addressing violence against women. It covers the following themes: Challenges in Addressing...
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Pacific Feminists and Activists: Re-framing, Re-articulating and Re-energizing Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights
Pacific Women Lead Publications
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 all...
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The Costs of Violence
UN Women Publications
A critical mass of information and specialised knowledge on violence against women costing techniques has emerged within the Asia-Pacific region. This report highlights selected regional...
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Rise Up! Evaluation Report
Pacific Women Lead Publications
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 and other...
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Promoting Economic Opportunities for All
Australian Government Publications
The Australian Government’s ‘Gender Equality Thematic Strategy, Promoting opportunities for all’ identifies economic empowerment and livelihood security as Pillar 3 of the strategy...
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Promoting Gender Equality through the Millennium Development Goals
Australian Government Publications
The Australian Government is committed to the implementation of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) – agreed targets set by the world’s nations to reduce poverty by 2015. The MDGs...
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Evaluation of the Gender Equality and Political Governance Project (GEPG)
Pacific Women Lead Publications
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 political...
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The Women’s Economic Opportunity Index (WEOI) and the Pacific: A Summary
Pacific Women Lead Publications
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 Islands...
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Beijing +20: Review of progress in implementing the Beijing Platform for Action in Pacific Island countries and territories
The Pacific Community (SPC) Publications
In the lead-up to the Beijing Conference, the Pacific Islands region adopted the Pacific Platform for Action (PPA). Its purpose was to identify regional issues and priorities within those...
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Women in Power: Beyond Access to Influence in a Post-2015 World
Pacific Women Lead Publications
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 lack of...
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Communique: Fifth Pacific Women’s Ministerial Meeting
The Pacific Community (SPC) Publications
Ministers and officials responsible for women’s ministries and departments in 19 Pacific Island countries and territories attended the Fifth Pacific Women’s Ministerial Meeting in 2013....