This short paper looks at the lack of definitional clarity that exists around the terms 'sorcery' and 'witchcraft' in the Papua New Guinea context.
This report analyses data from the first ever nationally representative study on violence against women in Samoa.
This paper reports on preliminary research findings into the significance of women’s status as mothers and the ways in which women draw on this role to construct new paths for themselves in the political and economic spheres.
This report provides findings from a study conducted with men in Bangladesh, Cambodia, China, Indonesia, Sri Lanka and Papua New Guinea on their use of violence against women.
This literature review is an excerpt of a larger paper that draws on selected readings to introduce key theoretical positions and assumptions about women’s political leadership and translates them into the context of the Centre for Democratic Institution’s activity in Melanesia and elsewhere.
Noting that the percentage of women elected to parliament in the Pacific region is amongst the lowest in the world, this short paper identifies a common profile of successful women MPs in the Pacific by looking at two countries where they have been relatively well represented – Samoa and Kiribati.
This booklet summarises lessons from research on gender-based violence in Solomon Islands and Kiribati conducted as part of a study on violence against women. It documents the challenges faced and lessons learned in the process of carrying out the research and for the transition from research results to policy and interventions.
The publication presents research and recommendations to inform policies and programs to increase access to sexual reproductive health services for people with disabilities.
This scoping study of women’s leadership outside of national politics in Bougainville, Solomon Islands, Tonga, Samoa and Fiji examines the leadership roles of women in local government, the pathways of women’s leadership, and the opportunities for young women’s leadership within civil society organisations.
This paper identifies promising practices in women’s economic empowerment achieved through the design and implementation of the Australian Government’s Enterprise Challenge Fund (ECF). It explores the ECF’s contribution to improved economic development and women’s empowerment outcomes and offers observations for international development policy and practice communities and the private sector.
The 'Pacific Practice Note: From Participation to Power - Women’s Economic Empowerment (WEE) in the Pacific' addresses the shortfall of many WEE initiatives to meaningfully address women’s empowerment and provides recommendations and practical actions to strengthen empowerment outcomes of WEE programming.
The 'Pacific Practice Note: Small Grants, Big Results' highlights the critical role of community-based and women’s organisations to women’s empowerment and social change, by analysing an evidence-base of successful small-granting approaches and strong partnerships. The Practice Note aims to influence funders to expand small granting programs.
The 'Pacific Practice Note: Opening Doors for Lasting Change – Gender Transformation in Practice' shares programming approaches that have led to gender transformative change in Papua New Guinea, to inform policy, action and practice to include principles of gender transformation.
Positive gender transformative change is not only possible, it is happening in Papua New Guinea as detailed in the ‘What Works for Gender Transformative Approaches in Papua New Guinea' report. Women and men in their family, communities and workplaces, are changing the way they behave to reduce the harms to women and girls and to strengthen their families, communities and workplaces.
This photo book of Herstories is one of 2 publications in the 'We don’t whisper anymore: ending violence against women in the North Pacific' series. It features some of the many extraordinary women who have worked to establish crisis centres and support services for survivors of gender-based violence.
This 'story of change' booklet is one of 2 publications in the 'We don’t whisper anymore: ending violence against women in the North Pacific' series. It explains the chronology, partners and progress made over many years to expand services to survivors of gender-based violence (GBV) in the North Pacific.
Pacific Girl Highlights Booklet reflects on the first three years of the Pacific Girl programme includiong its inception, context, implementation and learning. about works to engage adolescent girls in the Pacific as well as what the program is achieving through each of its five outcomes.
The Pacific Women final report features stories highlighting the voices and key achievements of Pacific women and men across the 14 countries supported by Pacific Women Shaping Pacific Development (Pacific Women). he Final Report includes data and impacts achieved over the life of the program, since it began in 2012.
The Pacific Women Highlights booklet provides a snapshot view of key achievements of Pacific women and men across the 14 countries supported by Pacific Women. Pacific Women has reached an estimated 1.45 million Pacific women, men and children since 2012.