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Community Overcomes Birthing Taboos In Remote District

Pacific Women Lead Publications

Strict taboos were once forcing women in the remote Lufa District of Papua New Guinea to give birth in their outdoor gardens rather than the nearby health facility. This has changed, with...
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A Pacific Girl Program by Pacific Girls

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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 consultations...
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Small Grants Can Lead to Big Opportunities

Pacific Women Lead Publications

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.
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Involving the Whole family to Ensure Women’s Economic Empowerment

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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 farmers in their...
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From the Ground Up: Women’s Groups Create New Crisis Services

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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 countries...
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Safe Working Conditions Make Markets a Happy, Healthy Place

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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 market....
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The Importance of Building Women’s Leadership at all Levels

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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 leadership. These...
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Girls are the Change Makers - Just Ask Them

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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 outside...
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Bridging the Gap: From Protective Laws to Real Change for Women

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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 of women...
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Putting the ‘Empowerment’ Back into ‘Women’s Economic Empowerment’

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The WEE snakes and ladders game developed by Pacific Women helps educate players about the importance of economic empowerment versus economic participation.
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Getting a Better Balance and Acceptance for Both Women and Men as Great Leaders

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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 dedicated...
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Faith Communities Say No to Violence

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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’ to her...
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Diverse Voices are Stronger Together

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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 influence...
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Covid-19 Burden of Care Falling on Adolescent Girls

Pacific Women Lead Publications

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 work often...
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Women Market Vendors Making Executive Decisions

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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 dominated by men....
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Dialling Up Services in Response to Covid-19

Pacific Women Lead Publications

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 combat this...
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Thinking Outside the Box

Pacific Women Lead Publications

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 provides...
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Tourism, Handicrafts, Dairy Farming - Fijian Business Women are Everywhere

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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.
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Pacific Women Management Response to Progressing Gender Equality in the Pacific Project Mid Term Evaluation Report

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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 project,...
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Pacific Women Management Response to Three Year Evaluation Report

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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 evaluation...