Resources
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…
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)…