Resources
Do No Harm Research Brief
IWDA and the State Society & Governance in Melanesia program at the Australian National University are partnering on a research initiative, with funding from the Australian Government through the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, to understand whether and in what ways economic inclusion and empowerment initiatives affect women’s experience of violence. ‘Do No Harm’…
Pacific women’s leadership program (FLOW)
IWDA’s Funding Leadership and Opportunities for Women (FLOW) program in the Pacific seeks to build the capacity and confidence of individual women to participate in decision-making processes and assume positions of civil and political leadership. IWDA believes that supporting and strengthening the capacities of women’s organisations and networks is key to enabling women’s political engagement,…
Narrative Responses to Human Rights Abuses
In May 2013, workshops were held in Chiang Mai and Mae Sot, Thailand, with a number of women’s organisations who represent different ethnic minorities from Burma/Myanmar and who respond to human rights violations. These workshops had two key purposes. Firstly, to share existing narrative ways of working and co-develop with participants new culturally resonant methods…
Public Perceptions of Women in Leadership (Fiji)
This study was commissioned under the Funding Leadership and Opportunities for Women (FLOW) program, a four year multi-country program funded by the Government of the Netherlands, coordinated in the Pacific by International Women’s Development Agency (IWDA), and implemented in Fiji in partnership with the Fiji Women’s Forum, Fiji Women’s Rights Movement, femLINKPACIFIC, and Commonwealth Local…
United Nations CSW59 Side Event: Transforming how we Measure Poverty
A panel discussion to introduce the Individual Deprivation Measure, a new tool to better understand the differences in how men and women experience poverty.
River of Change Poster
A visual representation of gender and economic change in Melanesia.
The Floating Coconut Poster: A Tool to Value Women’s Work
The Floating Coconut is a resource for creating awareness of the range of activities that create economic and social value. It was designed primarily for use by Civil Society Organisations but can be used in a variety of contexts.
Do No Harm Video
‘Do No Harm’ explores the relationship between economic inclusion and empowerment programs and violence against women, initially in Solomon Islands and Papua New Guinea. In 2014 we won the Twitter Award in the global 5-Minute Science Fair competition for our video on ‘Do No Harm’. Thanks to everyone who voted and shared our video.
Triple Jeopardy Report
Cambodian women with disabilities experience multiple disadvantages resulting from the interplay between gender, disability and poverty. This participatory action research has found that women with disabilities face similar levels of sexual, physical and emotional violence by partners to non-disabled women but endure much higher levels of all forms of family violence. They suffer sexual violence…