This Toolkit was prepared by Sr Lorraine Garasu (CSN), Director of Nazareth Centre for Rehabilitation (NCfR), with support from NCfR team and Women Human Rights Defenders working in the Autonomous Region of Bougainville. The Toolkit was developed as part of the project ‘From Gender Based Violence to Gender Justice and Healing’, which is being implemented…

IWDA’s Feminist Research Framework sets out IWDA’s approach to feminist research and provides guidance for designing ethical, feminist participatory research. Developed primarily as an internal document to support staff and consultants in considering all aspects of ethical, feminist participatory research, the Framework brings together contemporary best practice and draws on our over three decades of…

In all countries, women and girls do the bulk of unpaid care work. On average, women spend twice as much time on household work as men and four times as much time on childcare. Women also work longer hours than men overall when both paid and unpaid work is taken into account. This brief draws…

This brief discusses this importance of understanding interactions between women’s economic security and violence against women in the Pacific to inform policy and practice that advances human security. In a context where prevalence rates of violence against women and girls in the Pacific are among the highest in the world and the importance of women’s…

The Tugeda Tude fo Tumoro (TTFT) project was established in 2009 to support communities to achieve gender-inclusive sustainable natural resource management. As part of this project, the TTFT women’s savings club model was developed as a means of promoting sustainable livelihoods and increasing women’s participation in decision making in order to bring about sustainable natural…

In February 2012, a workshop was held in Honiara, Solomon Islands as part of ‘Navigating Gender and Culture: learning from local gender advocates’; a project run by International Women’s Development Agency and funded by the AusAID Innovations Grants Program. This project aimed to document the knowledge and experience of local gender advocates in four (4)…

This paper explores IWDA’s women’s economic empowerment program through the viewpoint of three evaluations undertaken in 2011-12. Drawing from the learning in these evaluations and from current literature, this paper highlights strengths of IWDA’s economic empowerment program as well as areas where greater coherence and effectiveness can be achieved.

This guide provides ideas about how to make WASH approaches more sensitive and responsive to the views, status, needs and responsibilities of both women and men. It is designed to be used at the same time as other WASH guidance material, as well as improve and build on existing WASH approaches. The material in this…

Gender Matters is a vehicle for IWDA to share emerging ideas and new research. It comes out at least twice a year, providing insights into gender and development issues from both a theoretical and a practical perspective. Gender Matters 6 focusses on the Beijing Platform for Action and IWDA program partner perspectives 20 years on.

Gender Matters is a vehicle for IWDA to share emerging ideas and new research. It comes out at least twice a year, providing insights into gender and development issues from both a theoretical and a practical perspective. Gender Matters 5 focusses on the gender equality and economics, with a look at savings clubs in Solomon…