Building Community Resilience: Inclusive, Sustainable Natural Resource Management
Partner: Live & Learn Environmental Education (LLEE) SI
Country: Solomon Islands
Historically, forest management in the Solomon Islands has been widely contested and controversial. For decades sustainable forest management has been absent from community life. At local level, some Chiefs and elders have used the privilege of negotiating [...]
Building Community Resilience: Inclusive, Sustainable Natural Resource Management
STOP Domestic Violence Program in Solomon Islands
IWDA partner in the Solomon Islands, One Television, ran the first 30-minute episode of the STOP Domestic Violence Program early in February 2009. IWDA has supported this project through Australian Ethical Investments, in response to a request from Dorothy Wickham, the head of One Television.
She has engaged all of the women’s groups in Honiara as a reference group and launched not the 3 minute segments we were originally expecting, but a full-scale program!
Peace Talks
Peace Talks: United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325 for Women’s NGOs and policy makers in the Pacific.
Partner: femLINKPACIFIC and other women’s NGOs in the region
Country:Fiji with outreach into Bougainville, Solomon Islands and Tonga
Building on the set of 25 outcomes outlined by participants at the 2006 Pacific Islands Forum Secretariat Regional Workshop on Gender, Peace, Conflict, [...]
Say No to Violence TV Campaign
Stop Violence TV Campaign
Partner: One News Ltd.
Country: Solomon Islands
This project aims to pioneer creative stop violence television segments to reach Solomon Islanders, especially young men and women living in the Honiara area of the Solomon Islands. The activities include developing a theme song appealing for stopping violence and producing twelve 3-minute creative video [...]
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 [...]
