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Formal Qualifications for Women Leaders
Pacific Women has supported 44 women in Solomon Islands to complete internationally-recognised Certificate IV training in leadership and management through the Australia-Pacific... -
Young Women Pursuing Their Leadership Goals
After finishing Year 8, Jessica Philimon, 16, was forced to drop out of school when hard times fell on her family. Even so, she continued to look for opportunities to grow. With... -
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,... -
Protecting Girls and Boys from Violence in Nauru
There is ongoing commitment in Nauru to protect children from violence. The government has enacted the Child Protection and Welfare Act 2016 and the Domestic Violence and Family... -
Big Opportunities for Small Scale Producers
Pacific Women supports women’s economic empowerment in Vanuatu through a range of partners. One locally-led initiative is the Alternative Communities Trade in Vanuatu (ACTIV)... -
Publishing Gender Statistics to Promote Equality
The Kiribati National Statistics Office collaborated with the Ministry of Women, Youth, Sports and Social Affairs to produce the Abstract, with regional funding from Pacific... -
Palau’s Family Protection Act, Five Years On
Five years after Palau passed the Family Protection Act 2012, Pacific Women supported the Ministry for Community and Cultural Affairs to conduct a review of progress towards... -
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... -
Women are Key to an Effective Covid-19 Pacific Response
The impacts of COVID-19 are not gender-neutral. Women and girls face even higher rates of violence and sexual abuse, undertake more unpaid domestic work, access fewer essential... -
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... -
What Does an Economically Empowered Pacific Woman Look Like?
More than 240 Pacific Islanders, researchers, policy makers and development practitioners from nine countries gathered to share ideas and lessons learned. They contributed to... -
Born Leaders: Supporting Women Matai in Samoa
In Samoa, each family has its own matai title holders, which are leadership or chiefly titles. This provides a unique opportunity for women’s empowerment and leadership... -
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... -
Women and Young People Influence Government Policy
More than 70 women and young people gathered in Tuvalu’s capital of Funafuti for the Tuvalu National Women and Youth Forum. It was the first forum of its kind, bringing together... -
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... -
A Platform for Sustaining Feminist Fierceness
The reasons why the second Pacific Feminist Forum was important are as varied as the 150 participants who attended. The civil society-led forum brought together diverse,... -
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. -
This Is The Same Thing My Pacific Sisters Are Going Through
Ms Harris was one of 34 selected Australia Awards scholars from 10 Pacific Island countries participating in the 2019 round of the Women’s Leadership Initiative (WLI), supported... -
Community Overcomes Birthing Taboos In Remote District
Strict taboos were once forcing women in the remote Lufa District of Papua New Guinea to give birth in their outdoor gardens rather than the nearby health facility. This has...
