Resources
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…
Women’s Savings Club Learning Paper
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…
‘Implementing Gender Standards’ Toolkit and Learning Paper
This learning paper is a final output of the SINPA Program. Under the program, International Women’s Development Agency and Oxfam led the development of Gender Standards, a set of minimum standards developed to ensure that the work of SINPA partner organisations did not contribute to the perpetuation of gender inequality. This paper provides an overview…
Gender and Culture Learning Paper
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)…
Global Goals and Unpaid Care
Unpaid care work underpins economic and social life in all societies. In all countries, women and girls do the bulk of this work. Women, on average, 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…
Voice for Change Community Survey Brief
Voice for Change Community Survey ‘Voice for Change Community Survey ‘Violence Against Women and Girls in Jiwaka Province, Papua New Guinea’. The Community Survey was conducted during August – September 2013, the data analysis and report writing was completed during 2013-2014. The report was finalised and printed in 2015.
Voice for Change Community Survey Report
Voice for Change Community Survey ‘Voice for Change Community Survey ‘Violence Against Women and Girls in Jiwaka Province, Papua New Guinea’. The Community Survey was conducted during August – September 2013, the data analysis and report writing was completed during 2013-2014. The report was finalised and printed in 2015.
Pacific Women’s Leadership Program (2012 – 2015): Overview of program achievements
This overview summarises the work and achievements of the Pacific Women’s Leadership Program (PWLP). IWDA’s PWLP program was a four-year, multi-country and multi-partner program in the Pacific. The aim of the PWLP was to build the capacity and confidence of individual women to participate in decision-making processes and assume positions of civil and political leadership.