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Pacific Women Gender Equality and Social Inclusion Indicators
The COVID-19 pandemic has impacts beyond people’s health that affect different aspects of day-to-day life. All people will be impacted in some way and must adapt to the... -
Women’s Economic Empowerment – Practice and Policy Implications from the...
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... -
Helpdesk Research Report: Women’s Economic Empowerment in the Pacific
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... -
Do No Harm: The Relationship between VAW and Women’s Economic Empowerment in...
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... -
Poverty Measurement: What’s Gender Got to do with it? Findings from Fiji: Part 1
This short paper reports on planned research in Fiji, the first country in the Pacific to pilot a measure of poverty at an individual level from a gender perspective. Pacific... -
Changing Market Culture in the Pacific
Addressing the multiple dimensions of gender inequality requires commitments by policy-makers, practitioners and scholars to transformative practices. One challenge is to... -
Putting Gender into the Equation: Impact Evaluation of Seasonal Worker Program
At the opening of the 2014 State of the Pacific Conference organised by the State, Society and Governance in Melanesia Program, Foreign Minister Julie Bishop noted the... -
Gender Research in the Pacific 1994-2014: Beginnings
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... -
Review of Gender and Infrastructure (2016)
This review involved a desk review of policies and project documents and consultations with Pacific Region Infrastructure Facility (PRIF) agency representatives and staff from... -
Developing Good Practice in Workplace Responses to Family and Sexual Violence in PNG
Findings from participatory action research undertaken with family and sexual violence service providers, advocates, businesses, and their employees in Papua New Guinea strongly... -
Building gender equity through a Family Teams approach
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... -
The Double Burden: Impact of Economic Empowerment Initiatives on Women’s Workload
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... -
The Relationship between VAW and WEE in Bougainville
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... -
Exploring Multidimensional Poverty in Fiji: Findings from a Study Using the...
Poverty data in Fiji is derived from household income and expenditure data, collected via periodic Household Income and Expenditure Surveys. Given gender inequality within... -
Women’s Economic Empowerment and Escaping Violent Relationships
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... -
Coffee is Men’s Business
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... -
Gender Challenges to Financial Inclusion in Papua New Guinea
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... -
Eves-Do-No-Harm-Report-PNG-2018
This research, exploring connections between women’s economic empowerment initiatives and increased violence against women in two provinces of Papua New Guinea and the... -
Do No Harm Research Report: Papua New Guinea and Bougainville
This research, exploring connections between women’s economic empowerment initiatives and increased violence against women in two provinces of Papua New Guinea and the... -
Do No Harm Research Report: Solomon Islands
This research, exploring connections between women’s economic empowerment initiatives and increased violence against women in Solomon Islands, found that any equation between...