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The Business Case for Addressing Family and Sexual Violence
The Business Coalition for Women (BCFW) is a group of companies and corporate leaders who are helping the private sector in PNG to recruit, retrain and promote women as... -
Participatory Action Research: Strengthening Project Implementation
Educators, defenders, advocates and activists these are all roles that women human rights defenders (WHRDs) play in the Autonomous Region of Bougainville. In the project From... -
The Last Taboo: Menstrual Hygiene Challenges in the Pacific
Funded under the Australian aid program’s Pacific Women Shaping Pacific Development initiative, the ‘The Last Taboo’ is the first multi-country study of menstrual hygiene in the... -
Reaching Rural Bougainville Through the Network of Women Human Rights Defenders
Seventeen years ago, with just PGK1,000 in their pockets, the Sisters of Nazareth created a special place – the Nazareth Centre for Rehabilitation – that today benefits... -
Pasin Bilong Lukautim Pikinini Gut or Parenting for Child Development
The findings of research are clear that reducing children’s exposure to family violence has significant benefits for their development and has the potential to break the cycle... -
Gender Smart Safety Resources
The Papua New Guinea Business Coalition for Women, with support from the International Finance Corporation, works with members to develop and adopt policies and practices that... -
Independent, Educated Voters in Bougainville
The Bougainville Women’s Federation and International Women’s Development Agency are implementing the Voter Education Project to provide education on voting rights and... -
Empowering Women Starts within the Family
Research on the interconnectedness of women’s economic empowerment and their decision making and safety in the family is informing programming to improve women’s livelihoods. -
Pacific Girls Shaping Pacific Development
A new Pacific Women program focuses attention and resources on adolescents. Pacific Girl planning activities in 2017–2018 have ensured that girls and young women will shape the... -
Do No Harm Toolkit
International Women’s Development Agency (IWDA) has produced a toolkit that enables organisations to apply learning from the Do No Harm research to their project design,... -
Value for Money for Support for Women in the Coffee Industry
Coffee is a major source of farming income in Papua New Guinea. CARE’s Coffee Industry Support Project is improving outcomes for women in the industry. Farmers’ income has... -
Campaigning for Change
The Women in Leadership Support Program has been working with women intending to contest the 2017 and 2022 national general elections and the 2018 local-level government... -
Supporting Government to End Sorcery Accusation - Related Violence
The Government of Papua New Guinea has adopted a holistic multiple partner approach to ending violence that occurs in response to sorcery accusations through the 2015 Sorcery... -
Using Family Based Models to Enhance Women’s Agency
A number of projects funded by Pacific Women are using innovative, family-based approaches to help communities and families make decisions about issues such as family size,... -
Pacific Models of Male Advocacy Working to End Violence Against Women
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... -
Making Informed Decisions as a Voter
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... -
Safe and Secure at Work
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... -
Starting or Growing a Business? How a Women’s Business Resource Centre Can Help
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... -
Helping Duty Bearers to Uphold Their Responsibilities
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... -
South-South Exchanges
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.
