Publications

2013 Global Gender Gap Report

Women’s leadership: Evidence Review

The Office of Development Effectiveness (ODE) commissioned a literature review to explored:
-  Definition of women’s leadership: How does Australian aid define women’s leadership (in policies, strategies or programs)? How does this compare to other donor approaches and international literature?
-  Data availability and quality: Are there adequate data (in Australian aid and other donor contexts) to assess the effectiveness of women’s leadership programs on gender-equality outcomes and broader development outcomes? What is the quality of these data?
-  Leadership and empowerment links: Is there evidence to link women’s economic empowerment and women’s leadership outcomes? What does existing evidence say and what is the quality of this evidence?

A second report was commissed to help guide ODE to design an evaluation of AusAID’s support for women’s leadership. The Evaluability Report synthesises evidence collected through an evaluability assessment. This involved a review of the international literature, documents from seven AusAID programs which have supported women’s leadership, and tracer studies from five Award programs.

Reserved seats for women: Encouraging female political participation in the Pacific

Women’s political representation in the Pacific remains an ongoing issue for Parliaments in the Region. While some would argue that the issue of reserved seats for women has helped to increase female political participation, the Chair of the Commonwealth Women Parliamentarians Pacific Region Steering Committee, Hon Elizabeth Burain (MP from Autonomous Region of Bougainville, PNG), suggests it could in fact be having the opposite effect, leaving many women to be regarded as second class citizens.

Project Report: Candidates Training: ‘Transformative Leadership and Campaign Training for potential women candidates’

This Project Report summarises candidates’ training that was held in Honiara, Solmon Islands for five days from the 2nd-6th December 2013. Fifteen participants from 8 provinces in the Solomon Islands attended the training. This included three men twelve potential women candidates from 8 provinces (including Honiara) who expressed interest in contesting the 2014 National Elections were identified by the Solomon Islands National Council of
Women to participate in the training. The training was organised by Voic Blong Meri and UN Women Pacific.

Women MP’s in Samoa and Kiribati

This paper was produced as part of the State, Society and Governance in Melanesia Project, ANU, briefing paper series.

Evaluation Report: Rise Up! Young Women’s Leadership Program

This evaluation was commissioned to review the Rise Up! program of the YWCA Solomon Islands. This Program is in its fourth year of implementation and has reached over 700 people in 4 different provinces of the Solomon Islands. Rise Up! is funded through the Pacific Leadership Program, a Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade–Australian Aid initiative that supports influential Pacific leaders to shape and lead developmental change, and the World YWCA, a global network of women and girls working for justice, peace, health, human dignity and care for the environment.

Toktok bilong helpim ol meri i laik sanap long 2013 ileksen long PNG: Kempein Hanbuk

A Guide for Women Candidates in the 2013 LLG elections in PNG – Campaign Handbook

PNG’s Office for the Development of Women (ODW) wants to help women who are thinking about contesting the 2013 Local-level Government (LLG) elections.

As part of this help ODW is supporting the distribution of a Campaign Handbook for potential LLG women candidates that has been prepared by the Centre for Democratic Institutions.

The Handbook is part of a strategy to help women candidates prepare well for the election and increase their chances of success. The advice and checklists contained in the Handbook will help women candidates to make decisions about whether they are ready to stand for election and how to plan their campaigns. The Handbook contains practical information to help potential candidates:

Contact the Office for the Development of Women in Port Moresby for more information - text or phone them on (+675) 7064 0560 or (+675) 7064 0562.

You can access the Handbook in electronic form in English (below) and Tok Pisin (above) in the link provided. Due to the heavy size of the publication, we have broken the publication down into 3 parts for ease of downloading.

Pacific Women’s Parliamentary Partnerships Submission to the Pacific Plan Review 2013

This submission was prepared by the Pacific Women’s Parliamentary Partnerships (PWPP) Reference Group. The PWPP was mandated by the current Pacific women Members of Parliament, who participated in the PWPP Forum held in Sydney, Australia in February 2013, to write this submission on their behalf.

Equality & Participation in Decision-Making: The experience of women candidates in the 2012 Election

This Report considers the first hand accounts of women who contested the 2012 election, a group of media representatives and a group of representatives of political parties. The impediments to the participation and representation of women in public decision making roles in PNG are found across all parts of life in PNG. The Report makes findings and recommendations based on the data collected at the Election Diagnostic Workshop and, using that evidence base, acknowledges the need for a multifaceted response to a complex problem with multiple causes and manifestations.

Pacific Women in Power: A Discussion Paper

Pacific Women in Power: A Discussion Paper

The Pacific region contains very highly skilled and qualified women, capable of holding office, so why are so few making it into the top decision-making roles? This discussion paper summarises some of the issues affecting the under-representation of women in parliaments and assemblies throughout the Pacific.