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Pacific Models of Male Advocacy Working to End Violence Against Women
Pacific Women Lead Publications
Pacific Women supports a range of activities that enable male advocates to be agents of change to end violence against women in communities across Pacific Island countries. The Male...
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Making Informed Decisions as a Voter
Pacific Women Lead Publications
Women’s leadership and decision making was promoted through the 20-month Voter Education Project in the Autonomous Region of Bougainville. Voters were provided with information and skills...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Diverse Voices are Stronger Together
Pacific Women Lead Publications
Coalitions are addressing social norms to create a more equal society for women and men, supported by Pacific Women. They are able to harness combined resources and networks to influence...
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Covid-19 Burden of Care Falling on Adolescent Girls
Pacific Women Lead Publications
The COVID-19 pandemic has increased the burden of care on women and girls. In normal circumstances, caring for siblings and children in the community and additional household work often...
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Women Market Vendors Making Executive Decisions
Pacific Women Lead Publications
Across the Pacific, women comprise 75–90 per cent of market vendors. Yet decisions about markets have historically been made by market management and municipal councils dominated by men....
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Dialling Up Services in Response to Covid-19
Pacific Women Lead Publications
Existing gender inequalities are magnified during a crisis, with women having considerably less autonomy and mobility leading to increases in men’s violence against women. To combat this...
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Thinking Outside the Box
Pacific Women Lead Publications
The Bel isi PNG initiative aims to inspire the private sector, in partnership with government and civil society. It offers employees case management and safe house services and provides...
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Pacific Women Management Response to Mid Term Review of the Papua New Guinea Country Plan
Pacific Women Lead Publications
The independent Mid-Term Review of the Pacific Women second country plan for Papua New Guinea (2014-2019) was completed in August 2017. The review also looked at how the Pacific Women...
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Pacific Women Management Response to CARE International in PNG Coffee Industry Support Project Mid Term Evaluation Report
Pacific Women Lead Publications
In 2017, a mid-term evaluation of the Project was undertaken by the Pacific Women Support Unit. The Project was assessed using a value for money framework that considered the four...