International Women’s Day, 2021: To Lead is to Serve — A Pacific Woman’s Perspective
This story originally appeared on the Inter Press Service website, it has been republished here with permission.
14th Triennial Conference of Pacific Women and 7th Meeting of Pacific Ministers for Women
SPC will be convening the 14th Triennial Conference of Pacific Women and the 7th Meeting of the Pacific Ministers for Women which will bring together decision-makers, development partners, research institutions and civil society organisations. The events…
Sustainable workforce promoting equal opportunities for Pacific women in Maritime
More than 50% of Pacific people live in outer islands. Maritime transport is the backbone of their island economies and communities. The importance of maritime transport in the Pacific has become increasingly critical during this time of COVID-19.
This…
Q&A with the Gender and Value Chains Advisor for Pacific Organic & Ethical Trade Community (POETCom), Flavia Ciribello
Women contribute significantly to their nation’s economies. In the Pacific, this overarches the formal, informal, subsistence and domestic labour activities; yet economically, their contribution often remains invisible or overlooked.
Pacific Women lead the region in combating deforestation and forest degradation
Loraini’s story of becoming one of few female Forestry Technicians in the Pacific
Bridging fishers’ and Western scientific knowledges to farm sea cucumbers in a community setting in Palau
Photo © George Stoyle - A fisherwoman gleaning sea cucumbers in the seagrass beds adjacent to the farm
By Caroline Ferguson1, Ann Singeo and Alex Ferrier-Loh
Caroline Ferguson is a PhD candidate in the Emmett Interdisciplinary Program in Environment and…
Valuing the critical roles and contributions of women fishers to food security and livelihoods in Fiji
By Alyssa S. Thomas, Sangeeta Mangubhai1, Margaret Fox, Watisoni Lalavanua, Semisi Meo, Waisea Naisilisili, Alfred Ralifo, Joeli Veitayaki and Salote Waqairatu
Gender in tuna value chains: Case studies from Indonesia and Solomon Islands
By Kate Barclay1 , Nicholas McClean1 , Dedi S. Adhuri2 , Reuben Sulu3 and Michael Fabinyi1
Rachael Luru, balancing being an at-sea observer and a mum
How do you manage when you are a young mother and your job requires you to spend several weeks in a row at sea, on fishing boats, in order to collect crucial data for the conservation of the fishery resources of your country?