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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... -
Swimming Against the Tide: Lessons Learned from Field Research on Violence...
Lessons from the UNFPA’s process of conducting researching violence against women in Kiribati and Solomon Islands included: There is overwhelming evidence that the studies in... -
UN Multi Country Study on Men and Violence
This report provides findings from a study conducted with men in Bangladesh, Cambodia, China, Indonesia, Sri Lanka and Papua New Guinea on their use of violence against women.... -
Samoa Family Health and Safety Study
The Samoan study shows that violence against women is prevalent: 37.6% of women who have ever been in a relationship are likely to have experienced physical abuse by their... -
Vanuatu National Survey on Women’s Lives and Family Relationships
The Vanuatu study shows that violence against women is prevalent: Among women who have ever had an intimate sexual relationship with a partner, 60% experienced physical and/or... -
National Study on Domestic Violence on Women in Tonga
The Tongan study shows that violence against women is prevalent: 79% of Tongan women and girls have experienced physical or sexual violence in their lifetime. 68% of Tongan... -
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... -
Kiribati Family Health and Support Study
The Kiribati study shows that violence against women is prevalent: More than 2 in 3 (68%) ever-partnered women aged 15–49 reported experiencing physical or sexual violence, or... -
Hem No Leit Tumas: Evidence for Improved Outcomes in Solomon Islands – Summary Report
The study unearthed a large amount of information about the delivery of adult literacy programs in rural communities, as well as finding some significant gaps in available... -
Mapping of existing legislation, programs and other mechanisms to support...
This mapping paper examines the environment for women’s leadership in the Pacific. It looks at the key international and regional gender equality instruments, domestic laws,... -
Gendered Priorities to Move out of Poverty Findings from Fiji: Part 2
Poverty profiles presented in Fiji emphasise income, consumption and expenditure characteristics that are often associated with poverty measurement at a household level.... -
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... -
Witch hunts in Papua New Guinea’s Eastern Highlands Province: A Fieldwork Report
The issue of sorcery and witchcraft-related accusations and violence in Papua New Guinea is receiving increasing attention domestically and internationally. A growing body of... -
Measuring Poverty As If Gender Matters: Perspectives from Fieldwork in Fiji
This research project was aimed at synthesising and integrating various experiences and perspectives on poverty held both by poor women and men and by professional poverty... -
Papuan Perspectives on Family Planning, Fertility and Birth Control
Papuan perspectives on family planning have historically emphasised political concerns that reflect the tensions between the Indonesian state and indigenous rights – Papuans... -
Political Representation and Women’s Empowerment in Samoa
Samoan women have achieved approximate equality to men in most modern spheres of government and the economy, but have never succeeded in winning more than five seats in the... -
Pawa Blong Meri: Women Candidates in the 2015 Bougainville Election
The 2015 Bougainville election saw a record number of women candidates, and a record number of women were elected. While one in three open constituencies had at least one woman... -
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... -
Using Mobile Phones to Track Anti-Witchcraft Violence in Papua New Guinea
This short paper details a pilot project using mobile phones to record and report data about accusations of witchcraft at funerals. The pilot is part of a growing body of work...
