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Pacific Women Highlights 2012-2021
Pacific Women Lead Publications
The Pacific Women Highlights booklet provides a snapshot view of key achievements of Pacific women and men across the 14 countries supported by Pacific Women. Pacific Women has reached an...
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Pacific Women Final Report
Pacific Women Lead Publications
The Pacific Women final report features stories highlighting the voices and key achievements of Pacific women and men across the 14 countries supported by Pacific Women Shaping Pacific...
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What works for gender transformative approaches in Papua New Guinea
Pacific Women Lead Publications
Positive gender transformative change is not only possible, it is happening in Papua New Guinea. This is detailed in the ‘What Works for Gender Transformative Approaches in Papua New...
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Pacific Practice Note: Opening Doors for Lasting Change – Gender Transformation in Practice
Pacific Women Lead Publications
Opening Doors for Lasting Change – Gender Transformation in Practice – sharing programming approaches that have led to gender transformative change in Papua New Guinea, to inform policy,...
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Pacific Practice Note: Small Grants, Big Results
Pacific Women Lead Publications
Small Grants, Big Results – highlighting the catalytic role of community-based and women’s organisations to women’s empowerment and social change, this Practice Note provides an evidence-...
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Pacific Practice Note: From Participation to Power - Women’s Economic Empowerment (WEE) in the Pacific
Pacific Women Lead Publications
From Participation to Power: Women’s Economic Empowerment (WEE) in the Pacific – addressing the shortfall of many WEE initiatives to meaningfully address women’s empowerment and provides...
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Women’s Economic Empowerment – Practice and Policy Implications from the Enterprise Challenge Fund
Pacific Women Lead Publications
This paper encourages a more targeted focus on women’s economic empowerment through private sector development partnerships, not least through a greater mutual allocation of funds, and...
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Reaching into the Bilum Motherhood as a Source of Women’s Power in Papua New Guinea
Pacific Women Lead Publications
In Papua New Guinea, it is primarily through being ‘good’ wives, mothers and household managers that women become valued. This situation can leave young women and those who do not become...
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Helpdesk Research Report: Women’s Economic Empowerment in the Pacific
Pacific Women Lead Publications
This review looks at major trends in spending (comparing women and men), the chief barriers to women having more income and control of their finances, and the key opportunities for...
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Do No Harm: The Relationship between VAW and Women’s Economic Empowerment in the Pacific
Pacific Women Lead Publications
Even as the importance of women’s economic inclusion and empowerment is acknowledged and acted on, it is also known that such gains are not without risk; for increasing command over...
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Transforming Workplace Norms in PNG: The Role of the Business Coalition for Women
Pacific Women Lead Publications
The link between women’s economic empowerment and the elimination of violence is pertinent in Papua New Guinea. Significant and persistent gender disparities limit the capacity of all...
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Changing Market Culture in the Pacific
Pacific Women Lead Publications
Addressing the multiple dimensions of gender inequality requires commitments by policy-makers, practitioners and scholars to transformative practices. One challenge is to assemble a...
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An Analysis of Judicial Sentencing Practices in SGBV Cases in PICs
Pacific Women Lead Publications
This study analysed a random selection of 908 cases from seven Pacific Island countries, including 111 domestic violence cases and 787 sexual assault cases. Each case is analysed to...
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Gender Research in the Pacific 1994-2014: Beginnings
Pacific Women Lead Publications
This study deals with research on eight critical areas of concern covered in the Revised Pacific Platform for Action 2005-2015: education, health, climate change and environment, economic...
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Review of Gender and Infrastructure (2016)
Pacific Women Lead Publications
This review involved a desk review of policies and project documents and consultations with Pacific Region Infrastructure Facility (PRIF) agency representatives and staff from other...
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Developing Good Practice in Workplace Responses to Family and Sexual Violence in PNG
Pacific Women Lead Publications
Findings from participatory action research undertaken with family and sexual violence service providers, advocates, businesses, and their employees in Papua New Guinea strongly indicate...
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Building gender equity through a Family Teams approach
Pacific Women Lead Publications
This monograph describes an approach to farmer learning and agricultural extension known as the ‘Family Teams’ approach used in a project to improve the uptake and impact of training and...
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The Double Burden: Impact of Economic Empowerment Initiatives on Women’s Workload
Pacific Women Lead Publications
The research demonstrated that, in general, women’s increased involvement in community financial management and income generation has not necessarily led to a redistribution of caring...
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The Relationship between VAW and WEE in Bougainville
Pacific Women Lead Publications
The Bougainville Do No Harm research confirms that women do not always gain greater empowerment when they bring money into the household because their access to economic resources does...
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Exploring Multidimensional Poverty in Fiji: Findings from a Study Using the Individual Deprivation Measure
Pacific Women Lead Publications
Poverty data in Fiji is derived from household income and expenditure data, collected via periodic Household Income and Expenditure Surveys. Given gender inequality within households can...