PWL at SPC Grants
PWL at SPC grants aim to support partners to implement Pacific regional gender equality commitments and contribute to Pacific Women Lead outcomes.
Grants for Pacific Island governments: PWL at SPC is offering direct funding and technical support to Pacific Island Government members. This support is determined in collaboration with member Governments. For further information email: [email protected]
Grants for civil society and other organisations: Multi-year grants to civil society organisations including women’s groups; social enterprises; academic or research institutions; Statutory and State institutions; and national and regional coalitions for their gender equality initiatives. The multi-stage grant application process has concluded, with grants awarded to organisations working in:
Cook Islands
Educate, Empower and Support: Reducing Gender-based Violence (GBV) in the Cook Islands
Punanga Tauturu Inc
This project includes GBV: research in the Cook Islands; integration of awareness and prevention into primary and secondary schools curricula; awareness on prevention with sports clubs; awareness and gender score cards for faith-based groups; training for health care professionals; awareness for women’s and men’s groups, including men’s advocacy/allies.
Fiji
Girls Arise
Fiji Women’s Rights Movement
To work with girls aged 10–12 to build their life skills and confidence. It extends activities to girls outside of the capital, Suva, using a toolkit to share the organisation's approach and to raise the profile of girls’ issues with decision-makers.
Strengthening our movements through Learning and Practice
Fiji Women’s Rights Movement
To strengthen, upskill and support the technical capacities of women's rights organisations in the Pacific (PSIDS) on gender analysis tools, evidence-based legislative lobbying and advocacy in two key areas: women’s leadership, and the support of women’s rights organisations to effectively monitor national, regional, and international commitments on ending violence against women.
Sarah Safe Home: Temporary Shelter for Survivors of Gender Based Violence.
House of Sarah
To establish safe house facilities, called Sarah’s Safe Home, to provide safe and secure temporary accommodation for women and children survivors of GBV. The safe house complements existing faith-based, behavioural change work on ending violence against women and girls.
Economic Empowerment for Rural & Remote Pacific Women
Rise Beyond the Reef
To build resilient communities through sustainable income generating projects that pro-mote traditional knowledge in Fiji. In Solomon Islands: to work through the established Artisan Cooperative representatives in partnership with local government, village leaders and spouses; to develop a community development strategy that promotes positive, gender social norms through community outreach and training.
Federated States of Micronesia
Young Women’s Empowerment Project (YWEP)
Chuuk Women’s Council (CWC)
The Chuuk Women’s Council will reach 150 marginalised girls through a young women’s empowerment course. The curriculum will focus on sexual and mental health, healthy relationships and developing future goals.
Tongen Inepwineu Counselling Centre (TICC) for Eliminating Violence Against Women (EVAW) services
Chuuk Women’s Council (CWC)
Ongoing support to GBV counselling and casework services for women survivors of violence in Chuuk State, FSM. This includes community awareness and advocacy on domestic violence, strengthening referral pathways, ensuring women survivors can receive counselling plus also legal advice and safety.
Kiribati
Expansion of KWCSC DV counselling services and psychosocial support to women and children in rural Kiribati
Kiribati Women and Children Support Centre (KWCSC)
To provide women and children in the outer islands of Kiribati access to GBV counselling and psychosocial support through the engagement of women interest workers in the island councils.
Marshall Islands
Weto in Mour (WiM) - Violence Against Women and Girls Support Service - Phase 3
Women United Together Marshall Islands (WUTMI)
Ongoing support to GBV counselling and casework services for women survivors of violence in RMI, including systems and process upgrades. Also support for customised community-based responses to women and girls who experience domestic violence in Majuro, with an extension service in Ebeye.
Palau
Raising Innovative Sport Enablers (RISE)
Palau National Olympic Committee (PNOC)
Inspiring women to lead in, and through, sports as a platform to inspire young women as the next generation of leaders.
Papua New Guinea
Sanap Strong, Standing up strong together for a zero-tolerance approach to GBV, family & sexual violence, and child harm
Kokoda Track Foundation Ltd
Establish an accessible and essential case management service and counselling support, along with medical services, justice processes and repatriation.
Samoa
Producing organic seaweed fertilizer to help increase economic opportunities for women in the rural coastal communities.
Samoa Women’s Association of Growers (SWAG)
This ‘Shore to Table’ project takes an organic approach to sustainable fertiliser, using women’s leadership and building their economic opportunities. SWAG has significant experience in supporting women farmers and growers.
Solomon Islands
Advancing and empowering women, changing the story project.
Women’s Rights Action Movement (WRAM)
Mentoring on gender and the law for young women, including strengthening women’s leadership through the community of prac-tice, and supporting a study on the link between violence against women and women in leadership.
Women-led, communities thrive / Women-ledim, komunity-gud
Save the Children Australia
To empower and support survivors of gender-based violence and promote gender equality in Malaita Province, remote Solomon Islands, by supporting the Malaita Christian Care Centre Safe House for survivor/victims of GBV.
Tonga
My Body! My Rights!
Talitha Project
Pacific Girl supports this programme to improve the community perceptions of girls’ value; amplify girls’ voices through creative media; and train girls on health, sex and sexuality education, and self-esteem.
ULOA WOMENS Diversity, Inclusion, Engagement, Resilience movement building
Women and Children Crisis Centre (WCCC)
To support the establishment of local women’s empowerment groups at the village and district grassroots levels.
Tuvalu
Empowering women and girls now for a resilient and prosper future.
FATU LEI Association
To promote women’s rights, incorporating economic empowerment, access to health, and women’s safety including ending violence against women and girls.
Vanuatu
Laef Blo Mi, Vois Blo Mi
CARE Vanuatu
Pacific Girl supports this programme for girls aged 12–19 years liv-ing in rural and remote areas of Tafea Province. It delivers life skills and respectful relationships education to younger adolescents in schools, including around 800 adolescent girls. The programme in-cludes male peers, teachers and families to ensure girls are safe and respected.
Promoting Women’s Leadership in Local Governance
CARE Vanuatu
To promote diverse women’s leadership in community governance structures in in Vanuatu’s Tafea Province, through a workshop and follow-up reflection sessions to over 200 members of the village and tribal pillar committees, then to village committee members. Sessions with women will allow them to strategise, plan, learn and support each other to advance women’s leadership.
Ni Vanuatu Women with Disabilities leading resilience to disasters and climate change
ActionAid Vanuatu
To empower women with disabilities to claim their rights and im-prove their livelihoods, by preparing their participation in emergency preparedness, recovery, and response through a ‘train the trainer’ model. Complementing the training is support to operate a small businesses, grants and the establishment of ‘sister savings’ and loan schemes to enhance their collective savings, and referral path-ways and learning exchanges with relevant services.
Regional
Pacific Owned, Women-Led Early Warning & Resilience (POWER) Systems
Shifting the Power Coalition
To support women’s rights and disability organisations in the Pacific who co-create, and share lessons learned from iterative gender- and disability-inclusive responses to humanitarian emergencies. This work ensures diverse Pacific women’s voices are included in disaster planning and response at all levels, resulting in tangible outcomes around diverse women leaders in the region.
Strengthening Pacific Women to Safety and Access to Health through Survivor-centred and evidence-based approach
College of Medicine, Nursing & Health Sciences, Fiji National University
Building on the existing Veilomani programme to deliver online training to a wider cohort of health practitioners on responding to GBV in Fiji, Kiribati, Solomon Islands and Samoa. It includes research and a situation analysis to determine existing strengths, weaknesses, resources and opportunities for national health responses to GBV in terms of policies and programmes.
Equal Oceania Churches Community of Practice (CoP)
Uniting World
To establish a first of its kind, regional Safe and Equal Oceania Churches Community of Practice (CoP), building on past successes using faith-based approaches to improve gender equality theology in churches around the region.
STEM senior leadership positions in Pacific universities
University of the South Pacific
To increase the number of regional women in senior leadership positions in Pacific universities within science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) by implementing interventions at an institutional level via recommendations for policy changes, action plans and training requirements.
Pacific Women Driving locally led Feminist Humanitarian action
ActionAid Australia
To establish a Pacific women’s regional surge roster by 2025, so that women from across the region can be deployed to support gender transformative, and disability-inclusive humanitarian response at home and across the region. To provide opportunities for women’s leadership in humanitarian response.
New Master of Theology in Gender Justice
Pacific Theological College
Introducing a new Master of Theology in Gender Justice to promote and support economic empowerment of women - a new Pasifika gender paradigm. Working with partners the project will involve advocating for a living income and living wage policy, strengthening church women’s agency, coordinate talanoa sessions on GBV, and establish a Helpline.
Pacific Regional Feminist Movement Strengthening
International Women’s Development Agency (IWDA)
To implement a feminist movement strengthening programme by enhancing the collective power of all women. Implemented through the We Rise Coalition, it will involve FemLINK Pacific, Fiji Women’s Rights Movement (FWRM), Brown Girl Woke in Samoa, Sista in Vanuatu, and Voice for Change in Papua New Guinea.
Just, Safe, Resilient and Empowered Pacific Communities
Pacific Conference of Churches
To establish systems for member churches to monitor and report on the performance of their commitments through such mechanisms. These include the Gender Report Card, implementation of a safe church policy (zero tolerance of VAWG in church communities), Code of Conduct, and to launch the Pacific regional faith-based strategy to EVAWG.
Pacific Peoples Advancing Change (PPAC)
Various civil society organisations across the Pacific region
Following the high volume of applicants for the competitive multi-stage grants process, including from community-based organisations, PWL at SPC is supporting PPAC’s Phase 6. More about PPAC: https://hrsd.spc.int/project/pacific-people-advancing-change-ppac
