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Learning Exchanges and Preparatory Electoral Contestant Workshops for Women Leaders
The implementation of TSM legislation for women to be elected into councils at municipal level in Vanuatu ensures a minimum 30 percent representation of women. Activities... -
Progressing Gender Equality in Tuvalu
Pacific Women is investing $1.8 million over three years to implement the Tuvalu Country Plan. Great steps were made in 2016 towards empowering women in the outer islands and... -
Pacific Women's Parliamentary Partnerships Lead to a Action on Diabetes Epidemic
The Hon Dr Puakena Boreham, Tuvalu’s only woman MP and the Hon Judi Moylan, a former member of the Australian House of Representatives, have formed a partnership that is... -
Thinking and Working Politically Following a Set Back
The year 2015 was an extraordinary year for gender equality in Tongan politics. In February, the Government announced at the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women... -
Senator Sandra Pierantozzi, A Trailblazer for Palauan Women in Politics
The Hon Senator Sandra Pierantozzi was Palau’s first woman Senator and first woman Vice President. Now she’s running for President in the country’s November 2016 elections. -
Sharing Experiences from 17 Years as a Pacific Woman MP
The Hon Va’aiga Tukuitonga has been a Member of Parliament in Niue for 17 years and attended her third PWPP project annual forum in Apia in 2016. Pacific Women supports the PWPP... -
Pre-Election Women’s Practice Practice Parliament in Nauru
In preparation for Nauru’s election in June 2016, 30 women and men from Nauru’s 14 districts participated in a Women’s Practice Parliament initiative. As well as role playing as... -
Understanding Women’s Political and Administrative Leadership in the Pacific
Pacific Women aims to better understand and improve women’s leadership and decision making in the region. Researchers from the SSGM program at Australian National University... -
Strengthening Women’s Civil Society Leadership
Two key Tongan civil society leaders and members of the Women in Leadership Coalition are Ms Ofa Guttenbeil-Likiliki, Director of the Women and Children Crisis Centre and Ms... -
Fiji Women's Fund Established and Poised to Make First Grants
In its first year, the Fiji Women’s Fund (the Fund) is well underway, having established relevant governance and management systems and conducting its first call for proposals.... -
Building Projects, Building Women Leaders
In Bougainville, women are changing community perceptions of the role of women as leaders by leading local infrastructure projects and using this experience as a springboard to... -
Independent, Educated Voters in Bougainville
The Bougainville Women’s Federation and International Women’s Development Agency are implementing the Voter Education Project to provide education on voting rights and... -
Niue’s Clerk Trained to Promote Gender Equality in the Parliament
Pacific clerks and senior parliamentary staff attended the Outrigger Facilitators’ workshop in Canberra, Australia in November 2016. The Outrigger training program on navigating... -
Support a Woman Leader, Then Support Her Again
Pacific Women invests in women with leadership potential and, where possible, continues to support them as they develop in leadership roles. -
Women Climate Change Negotiators Speak Out About Pacific Issues
Rising oceans highlight how climate change is affecting the Pacific. The Women’s Environment and Development Organization (WEDO) promotes women’s climate change leadership.... -
Drawing on Evidence to Design Effective Support for Women’s Leadership
The pathway for women to political leadership in Samoa is through a unique governance system that incorporates modern democratic principles and the fa’amatai system of community... -
The Impact of Intergenerational Dialogue on Gender Equality
Four feminist organisations formed the We Rise Coalition in 2015 with the aim of growing and upholding inclusive governance, equality, diversity, justice and women’s human... -
Big Networks for Women Parliamentarians
The Honourable Maureen Melekitama attended the second Commonwealth Women Parliamentarians Australian Regional Conference hosted by the Victorian Parliament in Melbourne,... -
Campaigning for Change
The Women in Leadership Support Program has been working with women intending to contest the 2017 and 2022 national general elections and the 2018 local-level government... -
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...