Family Support Centre

Family Support Centre (FSC) is a national and regional leader in responding to violence against women. Celebrating their 30th anniversary in 2025, FSC is the first and only secular organisation providing counselling and legal support services to survivors of gender-based violence. FSC is committed to promoting awareness of people’s rights to live in peaceful, non-violent, and non-abusive families by addressing individual and family impacts of gender-based violence and its structural causes. FSC provides counselling and mediation services, awareness-raising on eliminating violence against women, and facilitates access to health, legal, and justice services through the Solomon Islands national referral network (SAFENET). They also undertake advocacy for gender-sensitive policies and laws and deliver prevention-focussed community education.

map of locations where FSC works in Solomon Islands
Map of Family Support Centre’s head office and provincial offices in Solomon Islands.

Family Support Centre and IWDA

FSC have been an IWDA partner since 2016. IWDA currently supports FSC to implement the Responding to Violence Against Women and Girls program funded through DFAT. Currently in its third phase, this program ensures sustained quality services are delivered by FSC (along with IWDA Partner CCC), and supports stronger service coverage to reach women and girls in rural areas. This Phase also builds on partners’ experiences piloting effective primary prevention methods, including working with communities through outreach activities, and with men as advocates for gender equality and ending violence against women and girls in their communities.

Quick Facts

  • In 2025, FSC provided services to over 1,000 women experiencing violence. These services were delivered by FSC’s head office in Honiara, provincial branch and committees of volunteers based across the provinces.
  • Volunteers from rural communities are trained in basic counselling and legal referrals, and go on to act as support services, referrers and advocates. The volunteers are then connected with medical, counselling and legal service providers who are part of Family Support Centre’s network.
  • Family Support Centre are leading working with men as advocates to prevent gender-based violence, bringing the regional best-practice Male Advocacy Program to Solomon Islands.