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Counselling Training in Tuvalu
Pacific Women Lead Publications
Late last year, the Fiji Women’s Crisis Centre (FWCC) delivered counselling training to women trainers who work with women and girls in Tuvalu. The two-week training covered gender,...
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Cook Islands Country Plan Review
Pacific Women Lead Publications
The Cook Islands was the first country to develop a country plan after Pacific Women was announced in August 2012. The Cook Islands Country Plan (2013-2015) was developed in consultation...
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Continuous Efforts to End Family Violence in Tonga
Pacific Women Lead Publications
Over 20 participants gathered at the Tanoa International Hotel in Nukualofa in the past week, in efforts to discuss how each can contribute to ending family violence in Tonga. The two day...
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Pacific Women Contact Information for Vulnerable Groups During Times of Crisis in Papua New Guinea
Pacific Women Lead Publications
The COVID-19 crisis and other crises disproportionately affect the most vulnerable people in our communities – women living in poverty, people living with a disability, the elderly and...
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Connecting the Dots in the Pacific Gender Research Agenda
Pacific Women Lead Publications
The Pacific Women Shaping Pacific Development (Pacific Women) program’s Advisory Group on Research (AGR) is supporting critical gender research in the region. The AGR brings together...
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Coming Home - Reintegration in Communities After Accusations of Sorcery
Pacific Women Lead Publications
Beaten and named a sorcerer by her community, Mary fled her home. With support from Oxfam and the Kafe Urban Settlers Women’s Association, Mary was able to access the crisis services she...
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Collaborating to Progress Women’s Economic Empowerment
Pacific Women Lead Publications
Gathering stakeholders to increase knowledge and improve Women’s Economic Empowerment (WEE) programs was the aim of a recent roundtable event hosted by the Pacific Women Shaping Pacific...
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Co-Chair Committed to High Quality Research for Pacific Women
Pacific Women Lead Publications
Members of the AGR have an interest to increase the capacity, quality, accessibility and policy relevance of Pacific gender research and include Pacific Women implementing partners and...
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Case Study: Vanuatu Women’s Centre Works in Partnership with eh Police to EVAW
Pacific Women Lead Publications
Violence against women and children is widespread in Vanuatu with 60 per cent of women experiencing physical and/or sexual violence by an intimate partner in their life time. Through...
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Case Study: Freeing Women from Violence in PNG
Pacific Women Lead Publications
In collaboration with local partner organisations, the Australian Government, through Pacific Women, is supporting the PNG Highlands Women’s Human Rights Defenders’ Network (HRDN) to...
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Building Family and Community Support for Women’s Health
Pacific Women Lead Publications
Nancy John is a community leader in Papua New Guinea championing women’s sexual and reproductive rights and challenging negative attitudes and behaviours towards women and girls in her...
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Believing in Themselves, Pacific Girls are Leading Change
Pacific Women Lead Publications
Being a girl rocks! Girls from four countries came together to drive positive change for adolescent girls across the region at the Pacific Girl Inception Workshop. The girls spoke of the...
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Are Attitudes and Behaviours Towards Violence Against Women Changing in Papua New Guinea?
Pacific Women Lead Publications
Since 2012, FHI 360 has implemented the Komuniti Lukautim Ol Meri (KLOM) project to address violence against women and girls. A survey from the end of phase 2 of this Pacific Women-funded...
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Another Successful Telephone Counselling Exchange Wraps Up
Pacific Women Lead Publications
‘There was development of knowledge, skills and experiences shared from different crisis centres on how to improve counselling through the telephone,’ shared a participant of the recent...
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An Exciting Opportunity for Sonam Narayan
Pacific Women Lead Publications
Sonam Narayan is a student of the South Pacific Academy of Beauty Therapy. With support from Pacific Women, she and 24 other students are scholarship recipients enrolled in a Certificate...
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Alisia Evans, Host Producer and Broadcaster
Pacific Women Lead Publications
Meet Alisia Evans, the host of FemLINKPACIFIC’S breakfast show Morning Waves. She’s only been volunteering with the organisation for nine months but has already come to appreciate the...
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Adaptive Leadership: Cherelle Fruean (Samoa)
Pacific Women Lead Publications
The Pacific Women and Pacific Leadership Program’s pilot Adaptive Leadership Training for women leaders and change makers from 23-25 July 2015 brought together 21 government and civil...
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Achieving Women’s Economic Empowerment in the Pacific: What Needs to Change?
Pacific Women Lead Publications
From 27–30 May 2019, the Pacific Women Regional Learning Forum on Women’s Economic Empowerment will bring together women and men from the informal and formal sectors, government, regional...
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A Decade On 56 Project with 59 Partners Reaching 1.6 Million Papua New Guineans
Pacific Women Lead Publications
The booklet Promoting Gender Equality in Papua New Guinea – Highlights 2012-2022 features the impacts and achievements across the four outcome areas: Women’s Leadership and Influence;...
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16 Days of Activism; Reflecting on How North Pacific Crisis Centres Adapted to COVID-19
Pacific Women Lead Publications
The 2021, 16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence (GBV) is being commemorated in the Pacific by women’s crisis and support centres who continue to adapt and expand during...