This International Day of Persons with Disabilities (IDPD), we profile Mere Roden, a disability and women rights advocate. There’s a calmness and serenity that Mere radiates. It’s a silent yet powerful presence. One that abso...
Our experience working with 44 initiatives, many of them rural and community-based, is that transformative change is possible. ...
Engaging society as a whole is important when developing approaches to preventing and eliminating violence against women and girls. Rise Beyond the Reef discusses how they have used women's economic empowerment projects to engage...
In one of the most uncertain times, we aspire to be a relevant, flexible, accessible and empathetic feminist funder for diverse women in Fiji. Using an feminist funding ecosystem, we are constantly consulting, testing, reflecting ...
The Fiji Women’s Fund (the Fund) is going through a transition to becoming an independent entity. As a Fund, it means that we are preparing to be registered as a legal entity under Fiji’s Charitable Trust Act. ...
There’s nothing quite like the feeling you get witnessing what women can do when given the support that they define for themselves, especially for rural and remote women’s groups. ...
A tribute to the late Anand Loshni Pillay by guest writer Shazia Usman. Anand, a retired teacher and community leader was well known as the founder of Ra Naari Parishad - a community based organisation formed to improve the lives...
May always holds a special place for the Fund, it is the time of year when we commemorate our inception anniversary and highlight our gratitude for the many things that we have been able to achieve over the past three years...
At the Fiji Women’s Fund, we know that this isn’t business as usual. As a women’s fund, now more than ever, we must be empathetic, flexible, and adaptable to support the work of our grantee partners in responding to COVID-19...
As we celebrate what we have achieved and move into a challenging new year, we continue to rely on feminist friendships as a key part of our work in the women’s movement because they ‘keep us grounded, secure and valued’. ...
