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Women in Politics and Aid Effectiveness: An Aid to Evaluation of MDG3
This paper discusses Millennium Development Goal (MDG) 3 to ‘Promote Gender Equality and Empower Women’. It examines the appropriateness of the sole indicator for political... -
Equality Matters: Gender Equality & Women’s Empowerment Strategy PNG program...
Equality Matters is a five‑year strategy developed to increase equality of development outcomes for women, men, girls and boys across the Australian‑funded aid program in Papua... -
Pacific Women’s support for gender equality in Vanuatu – Fact Sheet (English/Bislama)
Since 2009, Australian funding has supported: 10 000 survivors of family violence to receive legal assistance and counselling services. 132 women from Vanuatu have benefited... -
Economic Status of Women in the Pacific
Key findings of the research note are: In 2010 the Pacific region lost 65 percent in potential human development due to gender inequality. But this average hides considerable... -
Stocktake of Gender Mainstreaming in Tuvalu
The Pacific Community (SPC), in collaboration with the Asian Development Bank and UN Women conducts assessments of national governments’ capacity to conduct gender mainstreaming... -
State of the World’s Population Report 2013: Motherhood in Childhood
Every day, 20,000 girls below age 18 give birth in developing countries. Births to girls also occur in developed countries but on a much smaller scale. Most of the world’s... -
Pacific Feminist SRHR Coalition Report
The overall message of the four-day meeting was that there can be no realisation of sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) for Pacific women without attention to... -
Candidates Training: ‘Transformative Leadership and Campaign Training for...
The candidates’ training was held from 2-6 December 2013. Fifteen participants from 8 provinces in the Solomon Islands attended the training. This included twelve potential... -
Women in Local Government – Stories of Inspiration from Cook Islands
In 2010, the Cook Islands National Council of Women in partnership with the Commonwealth Local Government Forum Pacific set down an ambitious program to begin to work with women... -
Women in Local Government – Stories of Inspiration from Bougainville
Despite the existence of affirmative action measures at the sub-national level in almost all Pacific island countries (a little known fact), women’s political representation at... -
Women in Local Government – Stories of Inspiration from Fiji
The first woman to be elected to local government in Fiji was Mrs Maureen Wright in 1967 who then went on to become the Mayor of Lautoka City Council in 1970. Since then the... -
Pacific Brief: Gender, Climate Change and Disaster Risk Management
Climate change is a real and growing threat to livelihoods, cultures, ecosystems and lives in the Pacific region. Gender and climate change are closely linked issues. Women,... -
Advancing Gender Justice in the Pacific
Over the last 30 years the Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) has evolved from being just an international standard, to being a... -
Increasing Women’s Economic Empowerment in the Pacific
Women’s economic empowerment is the ability of women to bring about positive changes in their lives and societies as a result of their participation in economic activities.... -
Program Brief: Pacific Regional Ending Violence Against Women Facility Fund
The UN Women Fiji Multi-Country Office, in consultation with partners, identified two main challenges facing Pacific organisations and networks to scale up efforts to end... -
Pacific Brief: Ending Violence Against Women and Girls
Violence against women and girls is a grave violation of human rights. It also has tremendous costs for individuals and societies, especially in the Pacific, from greater health... -
Gender-Based Violence Prevention: Lessons from World Bank Impact Evaluations
Emerging policy lessons from World Bank evaluations of programs to prevent violence against women include: Programs to increase women’s economic empowerment may reduce GBV by... -
UN Women’s position of the post 2015 stand alone goal on achieving gender equality
This paper supports the case for a transformative goal on gender equality, women’s rights and women’s empowerment. The case for a stand-alone gender-related goal, as well as... -
Population and Development Profiles: Pacific Islands Countries
This report contains population and demographic data and development profiles for 15 Pacific countries. Four of these countries (Solomon Islands, Kiribati, Tuvalu and Vanuatu)... -
Putting Gender Equality Centre Stage in the Pacific
This short policy brief states women’s empowerment is important because: Women’s empowerment contributes to economic growth. Marginalisation of women in Pacific island labour...
