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A Pacific Girl Program by Pacific Girls
Pacific Girl is Pacific Women’s dedicated, multi-country program to support adolescent girls to reach their full potential. It addresses priority issues identified through... -
Small Grants Can Lead to Big Opportunities
Since 2017, the Fiji Women’s Fund has been rolling out a new model of granting and capacity support for women’s organisations, groups and networks in Fiji. -
Involving the Whole family to Ensure Women’s Economic Empowerment
Two agricultural projects in Papua New Guinea are taking a family-based approach to improve gender equality. The projects are demonstrating how working with women and men... -
From the Ground Up: Women’s Groups Create New Crisis Services
Dedicated women’s groups in small island states are leading the creation of safe spaces and the provision of quality services for women and children experiencing violence. Three... -
Safe Working Conditions Make Markets a Happy, Healthy Place
Between 75–90 per cent of all market vendors in the Pacific region are women. The hours are long, and vendors often travel from rural areas to sell their products to a larger... -
The Importance of Building Women’s Leadership at all Levels
In the early years of Pacific Women’s programming, a high proportion of the projects to support women’s leadership and decision making were focused on women’s political... -
Girls are the Change Makers - Just Ask Them
When Samoa hosted the 84th Session of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child in March 2020, it was the first time any United Nations treaty body held a regional session... -
Bridging the Gap: From Protective Laws to Real Change for Women
Solomon Islands became the first Pacific Island country to launch guidelines and support for domestic violence counsellors, released in 2020. More than double the global average... -
Putting the ‘Empowerment’ Back into ‘Women’s Economic Empowerment’
The WEE snakes and ladders game developed by Pacific Women helps educate players about the importance of economic empowerment versus economic participation. -
Getting a Better Balance and Acceptance for Both Women and Men as Great Leaders
Supportive community attitudes are essential in improving’s women’s involvement in leadership and decision making. Initiated through Pacific Women, the Balance of Power is a... -
Faith Communities Say No to Violence
Pastor Tura is the first female lecturer at Seghe Theological College in Solomon Islands. Using materials developed by UnitingWorld, she is teaching ‘gender equality theology’... -
Diverse Voices are Stronger Together
Coalitions are addressing social norms to create a more equal society for women and men, supported by Pacific Women. They are able to harness combined resources and networks to... -
Covid-19 Burden of Care Falling on Adolescent Girls
The COVID-19 pandemic has increased the burden of care on women and girls. In normal circumstances, caring for siblings and children in the community and additional household... -
Women Market Vendors Making Executive Decisions
Across the Pacific, women comprise 75–90 per cent of market vendors. Yet decisions about markets have historically been made by market management and municipal councils... -
Dialling Up Services in Response to Covid-19
Existing gender inequalities are magnified during a crisis, with women having considerably less autonomy and mobility leading to increases in men’s violence against women. To... -
Thinking Outside the Box
The Bel isi PNG initiative aims to inspire the private sector, in partnership with government and civil society. It offers employees case management and safe house services and... -
Tourism, Handicrafts, Dairy Farming - Fijian Business Women are Everywhere
More women in Fiji are running businesses as a result of participating in women-led collectives supported with small grants through the Women’s Fund Fiji. -
Pacific Women Management Response to Progressing Gender Equality in the...
In late 2016, Pacific Women and the Pacific Community (SPC) commissioned a joint mid-term evaluation of SPC’s Progressing Gender Equality in the Pacific (PGEP) Project. This... -
Pacific Women Management Response to Three Year Evaluation Report
This evaluation has taken place after approximately four years of implementation of the Pacific Women Shaping Pacific Development (Pacific Women) program. It is a formative... -
Pacific Women Management Response to Mid Term Review of the Papua New Guinea...
The independent Mid-Term Review of the Pacific Women second country plan for Papua New Guinea (2014-2019) was completed in August 2017. The review also looked at how the Pacific...
