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Women’s Economic Empowerment and Escaping Violent Relationships
Pacific Women Lead Publications
This paper reports on research that found that increasing women’s savings or income does not necessarily lead to greater bargaining power within the household in Papua New Guinea. For...
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Coffee is Men’s Business
Pacific Women Lead Publications
Men’s control of coffee in Papua New Guinea is not only an artefact of colonial agricultural extension but also a consequence of gender norms and the system of land tenure that privileges...
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Gender Challenges to Financial Inclusion in Papua New Guinea
Pacific Women Lead Publications
This paper draws on research undertaken in 2015 among coffee smallholders in Eastern Highlands Province of Papua New Guinea, focusing specifically on some of the challenges faced by women...
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Eves-Do-No-Harm-Report-PNG-2018
Pacific Women Lead Publications
This research, exploring connections between women’s economic empowerment initiatives and increased violence against women in two provinces of Papua New Guinea and the Autonomous Region...
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Do No Harm Research Report: Papua New Guinea and Bougainville
Pacific Women Lead Publications
This research, exploring connections between women’s economic empowerment initiatives and increased violence against women in two provinces of Papua New Guinea and the Autonomous Region...
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Do No Harm Research Report: Solomon Islands
Pacific Women Lead Publications
This research, exploring connections between women’s economic empowerment initiatives and increased violence against women in Solomon Islands, found that any equation between women’s...
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Do No Harm Research Project Report: Women in Formal Employment Survey
Pacific Women Lead Publications
The State, Society and Governance in Melanesia program at the Australian National University and the International Women’s Development Agency undertook the Do No Harm research project in...
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Household Allocation And Efficiency Of Time In Papua New Guinea
Pacific Women Lead Publications
This report looks at how gender-differentiated domestic work burdens impact the ability of women to allocate their labour to the cultivation, harvesting and processing of coffee and...
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Gender Inclusive Value Chains: Improving Women’s Participation in Solomon Islands
Pacific Women Lead Publications
A multidonor initiative, the Second Rural Development Program (RDP II) was designed to improve basic infrastructure and services in rural areas and to strengthen the linkages between...
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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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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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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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Revised Pacific Platform For Action on Advancement of Women and Gender Equality 2005-2015
The Pacific Community (SPC) Publications
The Revised Pacific Platform For Action is a regional charter developed and agreed to by representatives from all Pacific Island countries and territories. It has four strategic themes:...
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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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Economic Status of Women in the Pacific
Australian Government Publications
Key findings of the research note are: In 2010 the Pacific region lost 65 percent in potential human development due to gender inequality. But this average hides considerable regional...
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Increasing Women’s Economic Empowerment in the Pacific
UN Women Publications
Women’s economic empowerment is the ability of women to bring about positive changes in their lives and societies as a result of their participation in economic activities. Enhancing...
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Putting Gender Equality Centre Stage in the Pacific
United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and The Pacific (UNESCAP) Publications
This short policy brief states women’s empowerment is important because: Women’s empowerment contributes to economic growth. Marginalisation of women in Pacific island labour markets...
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UN Women Fiji Multi-Country Office’s Annual Report 2014
UN Women Publications
This annual report notes that the eyes of the world were focused on Samoa and the wider region for the Small Islands Developing States Conference and UN Women’s Executive Director,...