Pacific Girl Partner Convenings

Held annually, Pacific Girl Partner convenings provide an opportunity to network, receive grant management support and share lessons learned and emergent Pacific practice related to adolescent girl inclusion. 

Find out more about Pacific Girl here.

Pacific Cyber Safety Symposium

Participants at the ‘Safe and Equal Online Spaces – Pacific Cyber Safety Symposium’ have called for rapid, collaborative action to better address technology facilitated gender-based violence (TFGBV1) in the Pacific region. More than 130 people attended the symposium, with sessions providing participants with the opportunity to nominate, discuss and agree on the priorities for the Pacific, to be recorded in the event’s Priorities Document.

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Women's Economic Empowerment Roundtable

The Women’s Economic Empowerment (WEE) Roundtable is a convening for people who manage, coordinate, and implement WEE projects and activities in the Pacific. It provides WEE practitioners with the opportunity to share experiences, lessons learned and knowledge to assist each other address issues, improve or adapt their WEE approaches.  

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Pacific Women Regional Learning Forum on Women's Economic Empowerment (WEE Forum)

Held in 2019, the WEE Forum aimed to: 

• Contribute to and build Pacific understanding and knowledge of women’s economic empowerment and approaches;
• Build on regional research, practitioner expertise and the experiences of women in the region to adapt and improve the Pacific Women approach to WEE;
• Strengthen relationships between development partners working on WEE and catalyse increased communication and more coordinated action. 

The forum brought together a diverse group of: women working in the informal economy, including market vendors, women working in fisheries, agriculture, crafts and dairy; policy, planning and finance decision makers (government, development partners, regional organisations); program practitioners; regional and international organisations; research institutions; civil society and community organisations; and representatives from the private sector.

View an archive of the event program on the Pacific Data Hub.

Pacific Gender Research Symposium

The Pacific Gender Research Symposium and Workshop held from 21 to 23 June 2014 was an exciting space for academics and practitioners to discuss their work in advancing the gender research capacity-building agenda among Pacific Island Countries.

At the symposium, the development of the Toksave Pacific Gender Resource was initiated by Pacific gender specialists who gathered at the University of the South Pacific to express their concern that gender research - especially that undertaken by Pacific researchers - was not discoverable. 

Find out more about Toksave here.

The Commission on the Status of Women (CSW)

The Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) is the principal global intergovernmental body exclusively dedicated to the promotion of gender equality, the rights and the empowerment of women. During the Commission’s annual two-week session, representatives of UN Member States, civil society organizations and UN entities gather at UN headquarters in New York. They discuss progress and gaps in the implementation of the 1995 Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action, the key global policy document on gender equality. 

Find out more about the linkages between PWL and CSW69 here.