The Water for Women Fund has made a major shift over the past two years, focusing on climate resilience in water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) systems. This transition builds on the Fund’s commitment to gender equality, disability, and social inclusion (GEDSI) since 2018. During the...
Category - Gender and development
The rights roll-back is gaining momentum
This year marks the biggest election year in global history, with over 60 countries going to the polls, including 17 within the Asia-Pacific region. At the same time, we are witnessing a global democratic decline with more than 40% of the world’s population now living under authoritarian rule. As...
The road to improvement: governance and social outcomes
For the past couple of years we have been examining the evidence for improvement in the quality of public financial management (PFM) and its impact on socio-economic outcomes. Frankly the evidence for improvement in PFM quality based on Public Expenditure and Financial Accountability (PEFA) scores...
Restricted visa pathways for Afghan women
Two decades of conflict and nation-building in Afghanistan have brought both suffering and hope for Afghan women. But any hard-won progress towards equality and human rights for Afghan women, once touted as a substantive moral basis for the war, is being incrementally dismantled by the returned...
Bearing the heavy load of Hela province’s family violence
The second time I met Sergeant Alice Arigo of the Tari Family and Sexual Violence Unit (FSVU), who...
Cervical cancer prevention and treatment in PNG
On International Women’s Day 2024, we bring you an edited extract from Dr Pamela Toliman’s...
Impacts of the Taliban’s ban on women’s work and...
Upon reclaiming power, the Taliban banned girls from schools above year six and women from work...
Intimate partner violence in Port Moresby: drivers and outcomes
Intimate partner violence (IPV) affects 80% of women in Papua New Guinea, a rate that may be the...
What better data can tell us about Australian aid and women
In 2007, the then Minister for Foreign Affairs Alexander Downer claimed that gender equality was...
Do no harm: supporting Pacific women leaders
The Pacific Islands Forum Leaders Meeting in Rarotonga, Cook Islands, last month committed to a...