This short paper uses the findings from interviews with young, educated women to consider the prospective benefits of supporting the development of a ‘community of practice’ among young women in Vanuatu.
This short paper highlights the importance of workplace support for women’s economic participation.
This short paper examines how Papua New Guinean men living in violent contexts make sense of messages aimed at preventing violence against women.
This short paper presents findings on women’s ability to start a business and to earn an independent income, and what this means for their bargaining power and participation in household decisions.
This short paper reports on which dimensions of life poor women and men in Fiji considered most important for defining and measuring poverty grounded in their lived experiences and perspectives.
This short paper notes the limited research into the relationship between women’s economic empowerment and violence across the Pacific. Further research is needed to guide donors on what needs to be incorporated in design and implementation of economic empowerment initiatives to minimise harm and to maximise positive gender equality outcomes.
This short paper examines the enablers and barriers for women running for parliamentary office in the Autonomous Region of Bougainville, and whether the parliamentary reserved seats for women system acts as a ceiling for women’s representation and prevents women from successfully contesting other seats.
This mapping paper provides information on how violence against women has an impact upon both the State and the private sector, and explores strategies used by the private sector to assist in the response to eliminate violence against women.
This short paper presents men’s and women’s accounts of domestic violence when asked to reflect on what typically happens in their communities when a wife is not a good wife or a husband is not a good husband.
This mapping paper describes the international commitments, domestic laws and development programs that support women’s leadership in the Pacific region.
This study provides, for the first time, a comprehensive analysis of adult literacy programs in rural areas of Solomon Islands. It reviews the attributes of adult literacy providers; and examines the motivations and expectations of women and men adult literacy learners, and their experience of participating in adult literacy programs.
This short paper canvases some of the options being contemplated by Tuvalu for introducing temporary special measures as a way to boost representation of women in parliament; and considers how a process of institutional reform might take place.
This paper discusses the Australian Government’s investment in law and order in Papua New Guinea and argues that whilst Australia can support the Papua New Guinean Government and civil society to address violence against women, change must come from within Papua New Guinea itself.
This report analyses data from the first ever nationally representative study on violence against women and children in Kiribati.
This report outlines the work undertaken in the first year and provides a proposal for the second year of a project that is that is collecting good practices in the formulation, implementation and enforcement of policies, laws, procedures and processes in relation to violence against women and developing due diligence standards and indicators on state compliance with obligations.
This report summarises data and literature relating to women’s economic situation, particularly at the household/community level across the Pacific.
This report analyses data from the first ever nationally representative study on violence against women and children in Tonga.
This report explores the multiple forms of discrimination that women and girls with disability in the Pacific face that are compounded by their gender and disability. It provides recommendations on ways to enable women with disability to participate in, and benefit from, community, national and regional development processes.
This report analyses data from the first ever nationally representative study on violence against women and attitudes to women’s human rights in Vanuatu.
This short paper summarises the main legal issues debated during the three-day conference on Sorcery and Witchcraft Related Killings: Culture, Law and Human Rights Perspectives, held at the Australian National University in June 2013.