Opinion by Maureen Penjueli, the coordinator of the Pacific Network on Globalisation (PANG), presented at the Pacific Women Regional Learning Forum on Women’s Economic Empowerment on 30 May 2019. As part of PANG’s critique of economic rational, we are interested in origins of key policy drivers, frameworks, ideologies for Women’s Economic Empowerment to
NEWS RELEASE | Suva, Fiji | 16 November 2018 A platform aimed at supporting capacity development and resource-sharing among Pacific civil society groups was launched today by the European Union’s Head of Cooperation, Mr Christoph Wagner. PasifikaRising.org is a production of the Raising Pacific Voices (RPV) programme, a regional European Union (EU) funded project
Download this Document How Change Happens - Duncan Green Civil society organisations (CSOs) in the Pacific region play an important role both in providing services to communities, thereby filling gaps in services otherwise provided by the state and often working with governments to do so, and in advocating for change
Download this Document How Change Happens English (1.4MB) Human society is full of would-be ‘change agents’, a restless mix of campaigners, lobbyists, and officials, both individuals and organizations, set on transforming the world. They want to improve public services, reform laws and regulations, guarantee human rights, get a fairer
Download this Document A Quick Guide to Engaging with Regional Policy in the Pacific English (600 KB) The purpose of this booklet is to provide information on the regional governance system and share some ideas on how civil society can constructively engage to influence policy. Pacific Leaders have expressed
Download this Document A Capacity Development Plan for CSOs in the Pacific English (1.3 MB) A Capacity Development Plan for CSOs in the Pacific is the last in a set of three publications that resulted from a capacity assessment study conducted under the facilitation of the UNDP Pacific Centre,
