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The Business Case for Workplace Responses to Domestic and Sexual Violence in Fiji
Fiji has one of the highest rates of domestic and sexual violence in the world with almost two-thirds of the country’s women experiencing domestic or sexual violence during... -
How Do Perceptions of Relative Poverty Affect Women’s Empowerment?
Employing an established survey treatment to subtly alter respondents’ perception of their relative economic wellbeing, it was noted that increased feelings of relative poverty... -
Pacific Women Thematic Brief: Gender and COVID-19 in the Pacific
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... -
Pacific Women Thematic Brief: Impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on adolescent...
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... -
Stocktake of Gender Mainstreaming in the Republic of the Marshall Islands
The Pacific Community (SPC), in collaboration with the Asian Development Bank and UN Women conducts assessments of national governments’ capacity to conduct gender mainstreaming... -
Stocktake of Gender Mainstreaming in the Solomon Islands
The Pacific Community (SPC), in collaboration with the Asian Development Bank and UN Women conducts assessments of national governments’ capacity to conduct gender mainstreaming... -
Stocktake of Gender Mainstreaming in the Federated States of Micronesia
The Pacific Community (SPC), in collaboration with the Asian Development Bank and UN Women conducts assessments of national governments’ capacity to conduct gender mainstreaming... -
Stocktake of Gender Mainstreaming in Papua New Guinea
The Pacific Community (SPC), in collaboration with the Asian Development Bank and UN Women conducts assessments of national governments’ capacity to conduct gender mainstreaming... -
Stocktake of Gender Mainstreaming in the Cook Islands
The Pacific Community (SPC), in collaboration with the Asian Development Bank and UN Women conducts assessments of national governments’ capacity to conduct gender mainstreaming... -
Stocktake of Gender Mainstreaming in Tonga
The Pacific Community (SPC), in collaboration with the Asian Development Bank and UN Women conducts assessments of national governments’ capacity to conduct gender mainstreaming... -
Ending Violence Against Women and Girls: Evidence, Data and Knowledge in...
This literature review and annotated bibliography synthesises material on the social context in addressing violence against women. It covers the following themes: Challenges in... -
Pacific Feminists and Activists: Re-framing, Re-articulating and...
In this statement, Pacific feminist, Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights advocates call for: Papua New Guinea State to repeal the Sorcery Act and investigate and prosecute... -
The Costs of Violence
A critical mass of information and specialised knowledge on violence against women costing techniques has emerged within the Asia-Pacific region. This report highlights selected... -
Rise Up! Evaluation Report
The evaluation of the Rise Up! program found: 93% of participants reported that they shared information on what they learnt through Rise Up! informally with their peers, family... -
Promoting Economic Opportunities for All
The Australian Government’s ‘Gender Equality Thematic Strategy, Promoting opportunities for all’ identifies economic empowerment and livelihood security as Pillar 3 of the... -
Promoting Gender Equality through the Millennium Development Goals
The Australian Government is committed to the implementation of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) – agreed targets set by the world’s nations to reduce poverty by 2015.... -
Evaluation of the Gender Equality and Political Governance Project (GEPG)
The overall goal of the Gender Equality in Political Governance program was to advance gender equality in political governance in the Pacific and its objective was to increase... -
The Women’s Economic Opportunity Index (WEOI) and the Pacific: A Summary
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... -
Beijing +20: Review of progress in implementing the Beijing Platform for...
In the lead-up to the Beijing Conference, the Pacific Islands region adopted the Pacific Platform for Action (PPA). Its purpose was to identify regional issues and priorities... -
Women in Power: Beyond Access to Influence in a Post-2015 World
The global process under way to develop a new international development framework after the Millennium Development Goals expire in 2015 provides an opportunity to address the...
