Resources
Women’s Safety and Security Program – Synthesis Report
This report synthesises findings of three evaluations conducted by the International Women’s Development Agency (IWDA) of three projects supporting three separate organisations delivering services to women and girls subject to violence.
IWDA and the Global Goals: Driving Systemic Change
The global goals have enormous potential for transformative impact on the root causes of gender inequality but to achieve this we need governments to meet their existing global commitments to progressing women’s rights and gender equality. This is the purpose of IWDA’s work on the Global Goals.
The Double Burden: the impact of economic empowerment initiatives on women’s workload.
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…
Global Goals: Women’s Rights Organisations and Movements
The Global Goals for Sustainable Development are the culmination of over two years of negotiation and consultation. The prioritisation of gender equality and women’s empowerment within the new framework is a major achievement for women’s rights organisations and networks, including the Women’s Major Group, reflecting their sustained engagement and advocacy.
Global Goals: Moving Towards Implementation
The Global Goals for Sustainable Development provide an important moment to accelerate global action on gender inequality and women’s empowerment. Meeting the Australian Government’s commitments under these goals requires a coordinated approach across Australia’s work – domestically and internationally – which must include increased investment, improved data collection and active consultation with women’s rights organisations…
Safe Families Toolkit
A toolkit to engage communities to respond to and prevent family violence in Solomon Islands.
Women’s Economic Empowerment Learning Brief
This brief synthesises findings from four evaluations of IWDA women’s economic empowerment projects. IWDA commissioned a consultant to review evaluations of the following projects: – Rural Women’s Development Project – Timor Leste (2012-2015) – Taking Steps Project – Timor Leste (2012-2015) – Tugeda Tude Fo Tumoro Program – Solomon Islands (2009-2016) – Women’s Financial Literacy…
Economic Empowerment Synthesis Report
This report synthesises findings from four evaluations of IWDA women’s economic empowerment projects. IWDA commissioned a consultant to review evaluations of the following projects: – Rural Women’s Development Project – Timor Leste (2012-2015) – Taking Steps Project – Timor Leste (2012-2015) – Tugeda Tude Fo Tumoro Program – Solomon Islands (2009-2016) – Women’s Financial Literacy…
Campaigning as a woman
The 2015 Bougainville General Election was significant for women’s political participation in Bougainville. It was only the third election to be held in Bougainville, and represented the greatest number of women candidates ever to stand. Campaigning as a Woman focusses on the areas these candidates suggested as important for women to know in order to…
Do No Harm: Human Security Policy Brief
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…