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Women Political Empowerment National Consultation: Local Government
Pacific Women Lead Publications
Gender inequality in Papua New Guinea is widespread, and achievements to date have been poor. Papua New Guinea ranks 123 out of 156 countries on the Gender-related Development Index and...
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Equality Matters: Gender Equality & Women’s Empowerment Strategy PNG program 2010–2015
Australian Government Publications
Equality Matters is a five‑year strategy developed to increase equality of development outcomes for women, men, girls and boys across the Australian‑funded aid program in Papua New...
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Pacific Women’s support for gender equality in Vanuatu – Fact Sheet (English/Bislama)
Australian Government Publications
Since 2009, Australian funding has supported: 10 000 survivors of family violence to receive legal assistance and counselling services. 132 women from Vanuatu have benefited from the...
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Stocktake of Gender Mainstreaming in Tuvalu
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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Candidates Training: ‘Transformative Leadership and Campaign Training for potential women candidates’
UN Women Publications
The candidates’ training was held from 2-6 December 2013. Fifteen participants from 8 provinces in the Solomon Islands attended the training. This included twelve potential women...
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Women in Local Government – Stories of Inspiration from Cook Islands
Pacific Women Lead Publications
In 2010, the Cook Islands National Council of Women in partnership with the Commonwealth Local Government Forum Pacific set down an ambitious program to begin to work with women entering...
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Women in Local Government – Stories of Inspiration from Bougainville
Pacific Women Lead Publications
Despite the existence of affirmative action measures at the sub-national level in almost all Pacific island countries (a little known fact), women’s political representation at this level...
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Women in Local Government – Stories of Inspiration from Fiji
Pacific Women Lead Publications
The first woman to be elected to local government in Fiji was Mrs Maureen Wright in 1967 who then went on to become the Mayor of Lautoka City Council in 1970. Since then the progress of...
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Population and Development Profiles: Pacific Islands Countries
Pacific Women Lead Publications
This report contains population and demographic data and development profiles for 15 Pacific countries. Four of these countries (Solomon Islands, Kiribati, Tuvalu and Vanuatu) are...
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Women Peace Human Security and Development Update – A FemLINKPACIFIC Policy Brief
Pacific Women Lead Publications
FemLINKpacific is a local, regional, and national catalyst for change through the use of accessible media and information. This is FemLINKPACIFIC’s policy brief from May 2014, providing...
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Public Perceptions of Women in Leadership – Research Project of the Fiji Women’s Forum
Pacific Women Lead Publications
The findings from this study about community views about women in politics and leadership more generally provide important information about current attitudes, how these vary across the...
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Actions and Impacts for a Peaceful Pacific: 2015 and Beyond
Pacific Women Lead Publications
This publication brings together the perspectives of women involved in the Leitana Nehan Women’s Development Agency of Bougainville, Vois Blong Mere Solomon of Solomon Islands and Ma’a...
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Stocktake of Gender Mainstreaming in Kiribati
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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Outcome Statement: Pacific Parliamentarians Tackle Gender Equality
Pacific Women Lead Publications
The outcomes statement describes the sessions, discussions and panels held during the 2015 Women’s Parliamentary Partnerships Forum. Paricipants identified the following priorities:...
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Women in Politics Campaign Handbook
Pacific Women Lead Publications
This handbook was initially prepared as a resource for the Candidate Capacity Strengthening Workshop organised by the Fiji Women’s Forum in June 2014. Following the workshop, the handbook...
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Stocktake of Gender Mainstreaming in Nauru
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 Niue
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 Samoa
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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Campaigning as a Woman
Pacific Women Lead Publications
The 2015 Bougainville General Election was significant for women’s political participation in Bougainville. It was only the third election to be held in Bougainville, and represented the...
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Measuring the cost of gender-based violence in PNG
Pacific Women Lead Publications
This toolkit presents an approach to assessing the cost impacts of gender-based violence on businesses in Papua New Guinea. The costing methodology and tools consist of four core steps: A...