This short paper describes the World Bank Seasonal Worker Program Development Impact Evaluation study that will take place over a two-year period from 2015 to 2016 with an overall evaluation report and a separate gender report made available in 2016.
This short paper argues that the repeal of Papua New Guinea’s Sorcery Act 1971 has been functionally irrelevant for village courts, which face the issue of sorcery with far more frequency than higher courts ever did.
This paper argues that development practitioners should see sorcery and witchcraft not only as a serious human rights issue, but also as a serious development issue, because the culture of insecurity they create undermines the goals of poverty reduction and development through inhibiting entrepreneurial efforts.
This short paper examines the results from the 2013 Tanah Papua (the Indonesian provinces of Papua and West Papua) Integrated Bio-Behavioural Survey (IBBS) through a gender lens. The IBBS studies HIV indicators, including HIV prevalence, knowledge of HIV, sexual behaviour and condom use.
This short paper explores what studies of material culture, commodities or substances can offer to policymakers addressing the social, political and economic implications of alcohol in Papua New Guinea, in light of alcohol-related violence among security-sector forces
in Port Moresby.
This short paper examines the question of how women contest and win elections in the Autonomous Region of Bougainville, through an analysis of the campaign experiences of successful, near-successful and less successful women candidates.
This full research report and associated research brief detail the findings from a study to identify the factors inhibiting young women’s participation in civil society organisations in the Autonomous Region of Bougainville.
This full research report and associated research brief detail the findings from a study to identify the factors inhibiting young women’s participation in civil society organisations in the Autonomous Region of Bougainville.
Volume 2 of 2 report provides the findings, analysis and policy significance of research aimed to better understand the barriers to women’s political participation in Samoa.
Volume 1 of 2 report provides the findings, analysis and policy significance of research aimed to better understand the barriers to women’s political participation in Samoa.
This paper summarises the state of knowledge on women’s leadership in the Pacific, focussing on formal politics (the main focus of the literature on women’s empowerment); the bureaucracy (an important employer of women); and civil society (an area in which Pacific women are particularly active).
This paper summarises the state of knowledge on women’s leadership in the Pacific, focussing on formal politics (the main focus of the literature on women’s empowerment); the bureaucracy (an important employer of women); and civil society (an area in which Pacific women are particularly active).
This paper draws on extensive ethnographic research conducted in two sites in Tanah Papua – Manokwari, a coastal city, and Wamena, a highlands hub – to explore how Papuans, particularly youth, are likely to react to family planning
This paper presents empirical findings on one aspect of the work of a transnational feminist research project, whose goal was to produce a better standard or metric for measuring poverty across the world.
This paper presents a framework that emerged from a project working to change market culture in the Pacific, which the authors name the 'radical empowerment of women approach'.
This short paper discusses preliminary findings from interviews in Solomon Islands with young women leaders who are members of the Young Women’s Parliamentary Group.
This short paper reports on interviews undertaken in Goroka, Papua New Guinea, with eight perpetrators who had been involved in 13 attacks on people accused of witchcraft. The attacks
occurred between 1997 and 2013, and included 32 victims, 27 of whom died as a result.
This short paper reports on the results of community-based discussions on home-brewed alcohol and violence in Wamena, the main city in the central highlands of Papua New Guinea.
This short paper highlights some of the ways in which gendered social expectations, roles and responsibilities, and gender discrimination, shape and are shaped by poverty.
This short paper outlines the substance of, and steps leading to, the draft national action plan that was developed in June 2014 to repond to sorcery accusation-related violence.