Resources
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.
The Global Goals: Women, Peace and Security
IWDA welcomes the commitment to promoting peace, justice and strong institutions as one of the 17 Global Goals that make up the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. Global Goal 16 commits the international community to seek to “promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable…
The Global Goals: Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment Brief
IWDA welcomes this recognition of the importance of gender equality and women’s empowerment to achieving sustainable development. This is reflected in the Global Goals for Sustainable Development in a standalone goal on gender equality and women’s empowerment (Goal 5), and in the recognition of gender dimensions in targets across other goals including those related to…
Bougainville Young Women’s Leadership Research Brief
The Bougainville Young Women’s Leadership Research is an initiative of Bougainville Women’s Federation in collaboration with its partner, International Women’s Development Agency, and with the support of the State, Society and Governance in Melanesia Program at the Australian National University. Supported by the Funding Leadership and Opportunities for Women Program of the Netherlands Government.