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… Fiji and PNG were part of the World Bank’s qualitative study … the World Development Report 2012: Gender Equality and Development, for which local researchers organised focus … groups to systematically record the factors that women and men in the study saw as helping to increase their …
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… Poverty profiles presented in Fiji emphasise income, consumption and expenditure characteristics that are often associated … reports on which dimensions of life poor women and men in Fiji considered most important for defining and measuring …
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… This short paper reports on planned research in Fiji, the first country in the Pacific to pilot a measure of … countries report a high incidence of poverty among women and girls and especially the vulnerability of female-headed households. …
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… from communities who participated in research in Fiji and Papua New Guinea. The findings suggest that strong gender norms may constrain women’s agency and their ability to be economically independent. … … Pacific …
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… the World Development Report 2012: Gender Equality and Development, local researchers in Fiji and Papua New Guinea organised focus groups to elicit …
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… to economic opportunities without any focus on gender and gender relations, especially the role of gender norms and practices in the context of marital relationships. … decisions or influence decisions on issues of livelihood management (such as children’s education and general …
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… it is primarily through being ‘good’ wives, mothers and household managers that women become valued. This situation can leave young women and those who do not become wives and mothers with limited options for gaining respect and a …
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… Even as the importance of women’s economic inclusion and empowerment is acknowledged and acted on, it is also … Melanesian communities in Solomon Islands and Fiji, any cash in the hands of women can expose them to risk of violence by men, often in association with resource-depleting activities such as gambling and drinking. …
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… extension but also a consequence of gender norms and the system of land tenure that privileges men. Due to the … Marital conflicts over coffee income, and especially men’s resource-depleting misuse of that income, are common, … and to adopt more gender-equitable customs about the key resource of land. This includes the need for empowering …
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… reserved seats act as a ceiling for women’s representation and prevent women from successfully contesting other seats. … They tended to have had careers in the public service, and significant involvement in church, community and women’s organisations. A significant factor in successful …
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… the relationship between women’s economic empowerment and violence against women through in-depth qualitative … women in the urban context of Arawa (Kieta District) and rural women involved in informal marketing and alluvial mining (Panguna District) and in informal …
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… Numerous studies show obvious links between alcohol abuse and violence in Melanesia. In Papua New Guinea, alcohol is incorporated into sociality involving gift exchange and distribution practices associated with the ‘big man’ … arguing that alcohol contributes significant tax revenue, and that liquor bans are not successful and would ‘force the …
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… was repealed in 2013 in the wake of several high profile and gruesome killings related to sorcery accusations, because … rural areas where concerns about sorcery are strongest, and are often a matter of nearly daily discussion. This short … cases. Greater support, in terms of both resourcing and adjudication guidance, could go some way towards closing …
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… of witchcraft in Papua New Guinea drew international and national attention to the problem of sorcery and witchcraft accusation–related violence. In the face of … the government responded by repealing the Sorcery Act 1971 and creating a new provision in the Criminal Code Act 1974 …
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… looks at the example of women parliamentarians in Kiribati and Samoa to identify common characteristics of women who … been successful at being elected: - Coming from a large and influential family provides an important ‘base vote’, willing campaign helpers, and potential financiers. Women MPs also tend to come from …