Freedom from Family and Sexual Violence, Goroka, Eastern Highlands
Healthcare, counselling services, emergency accommodation and other forms of support for survivors of gender-based violence are almost non-existent outside the capital Port Moresby. Even where they do exist, referral protocols are not in place to ensure that women are in a position to access available resources. Likewise, […]
Freedom from Family and Sexual Violence, Goroka, Eastern Highlands
Peace Keepers’ Trauma Healing and Domestic Violence Reduction
Peace Keepers’ Trauma Healing and Domestic Violence Reduction
There are currently over 3500 men enrolled in the Republic of Fiji Military Force (RFMF). Of these, over half will or have already served as a United Nations Peace Keeper in countries such as Iraq, Egypt, East Timor, Lebanon and Sudan. They spend up to a year away […]
Strengthening the Capacity of Women to Safeguard Rainforest Resources
Strengthening the Capacity of Women to Safeguard Rainforest Resources
IWDA and Live and Learn Environmental Education are collaborating on a new project, Strengthening the Capacity of Women to Safeguard Rainforest Resources in Vanuatu.
This project will complement an existing project, Strengthening the Capacity of Communities to Safeguard Rainforest Resources in Vanuatu, an education and advocacy campaign […]
Cambodia Mine Action
by Kate Burrell, Cambodia Program Manager
In Cambodia IWDA has commenced groundbreaking work placing gender at the centre of an AusAID funded mine action project.
Working with World Vision Australia/Cambodia and the Mines Advisory Group (MAG), IWDA is contributing its gender expertise to the Community Strengthening and Gender Mainstreaming Integrated Mine Action project as part of an […]
Women Rise to their Feet in the Solomon Islands!
Trudy Hairs, Overseas Program Manager – Solomon Islands
Nukufero is a remote Russell Island village in the Solomon Islands. A particularly isolated region, the Russells have no roads, few phones or radios, and transport is by outboard motorboats – a mode which is both costly and too frequently hampered by high seas. The local Tikopian […]
