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Summary Synopsis of major issues and problems with regard to safeguarding, preserving and revitalizing women’s roles in relation to intangible heritage and development. To read Full Report, Click here
Summary The Skills for Handicraft program, under the Vanuatu Skills Partnership, has a number of different work streams operating in four provinces in Vanuatu. Work streams are groups of clients who receive targeted skills development training to assist them in the...
Summary The Partnership encourages communications and engagement with male partners of female coaches and trainers to build greater understanding about these roles to support inclusion. Additional, the provincial Skills Centers in some province of Vanuatu have...
Summary This Gender and Inclusion program, developed as part of Oxfam in the Pacific’s suite of Inclusion Programs and specifically focused on the context of Vanuatu, will work in ways underpinned by Oxfam’s Pacific Values and strengths-based interventions, to address...
Summary his document discusses basic concepts of gender and introduces key areas of inquiry to take into consideration when undergoing a gender analysis. For each area of inquiry, this brief provides examples of questions that a gender analysis may want to explore,...
Summary Resilience opens up a new opportunity for country programmers to engage on gender justice. And resilient development cannot be achieved without acknowledging the gender/power-based implications of our programming and making the necessary adjustments to address...
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Summary The Yogyakarta Principles address a broad range of international human rights standards and their application to SOGIE issues. On 10 Nov. 2017 a panel of experts published additional principles expanding on the original document reflecting developments in...
Summary Across the Pacific, some obstacles in the investment climate such as a prevailing culture of informality among female entrepreneurs, unequal access to property, credit, justice, women’s lack of experience, and comfort with formal business processes such as...
Summary The human rights journey from standard-setting to effective implementation depends, in large measure, on the availability of appropriate tools for policy formulation and evaluation. Indicators, both quantitative and qualitative, are one such essential tool....
Summary The Strategic Plan of the National University of Vanuatu 2021-2030 provides a vision and roadmap for developing a high-quality higher education institution that can effectively serve the educational and development needs of Vanuatu. Vanuatu’s dream is to...
Summary Gender inequality leads to differences in the access women, men, girls and boys have to participate in education as students, educators, administrators and decision makers. Discrimination is an aspect of gender inequality and involves treating males and...
Summary The Education & Human Resources Strategy Plan (EHRSP) has been formulated in line with the vision of providing a quality education for all and developing a Human Resource base to transform Mauritius into an intelligent nation state in the vanguard of...
Summary Violence against women (VAW) is widely condemned as a fundamental violation of human rights and is recognized as a significant public health problem, causing enormous social harm and costs to national economies. This report is a literature review that aims to...
Summary This report is an update on the disability inclusion activities that were implemented between January and December 2019. Planning and implementation was undertaken in collaboration with the Ministry of Justice and Community Services (MJCS), Ministry of...
Summary This Gender and Inclusion program, developed as part of Oxfam in the Pacific’s suite of Inclusion Programs and specifically focused on the context of Vanuatu, will work in ways underpinned by Oxfam’s Pacific Values and strengths-based interventions, to address...
The child maintenance Act of children in Vanuatu. ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS PART 1 – MAINTENANCE PROCEEDINGS 1. Commencement of maintenance proceedings 2. Application for order 3. Reception of actions 4. Cause of action will not lie in certain cases 5. Powers of...
This project arose out of the United Nations global ‘Lessons Learned Project’ in which the FWRM and the Pacific RRRT jointly examined the application of human rights based approach to legislative reform using the Fiji Family Law Act.1 As a result of examining how...
SPC RRRT is unique in that its programmed base continues to have a gender and a rights-based approach as its foundation. In 1998 RRRT was awarded the prestigious UNICEF Maurice Pate Award for its cutting edge work in gender and human rights and, in 2005, it was chosen...
The consultation was a half-day session held at Seaside Retreat in Port Vila. The session aimed to provide an opportunity for young women to share their voices and collaborate to develop an outcome statement to contribute to 2021 Triennial discussions. Sista and CARE...
The Whitlam Institute is concerned that Australia’s past and emerging engagement in the region pays insufficient attention to Pacific perspectives – not only official positions but also the voices of ordinary people from across the region. The Institute engaged...
Indigenous Maori researcher and academic Linda Tuhiwai Smith reminds us that research using western frameworks “continues relentlessly and brings with it a new wave of exploration, discovery, exploitation and appropriation. Researchers enter communities armed with...
This booklet is designed first, to serve as an informational guide to expand our understanding of our Pacific brothers and sisters of diverse Sexual Orientation and Gender Expression and Identity (SOGIE). It offers an introduction to SOGIE - what it means and how to...
THE ISLAND of Malekula, in north Vanuatu, has for long been recognized as a locus classicus for the occurrence of organized male homosexuality. Deacon, who carried out his field researches in 1926, was the first to publish a reasonably detailed account of the highly...