Gender Equality: The very core of our grants for women
25 November 2020
Our experience working with 44 initiatives, many of them rural and community-based, is that transformative change is possible. ...
Tag: <span>Gender equality</span>
COVID-19 support: Understanding the lived realities of young women and girls
18 September 2020
Earlier this year, the Fiji Women’s Rights Movement conducted a small-scale rapid assessment on the impact of COVID-19 on young women and girls in Fiji. The assessment, conducted via an online survey and phone interviews, focuse...
17 grants awarded to women’s groups in Fiji
15 July 2020
Recognising the capacity of women to change their communities from the ground up, and supporting women’s groups to transform gender roles, the Fiji Women’s Fund has announced that it has awarded 18 grants to nine women’s org...
Medical Services Pacific: Keeping us calm in these uncertain times
05 June 2020
During the height of the lockdown restriction, Medical Services Pacific (MSP) was one of the many organisations on the front-lines providing critical support to citizens coping with COVID-19. MSP manages the Ministry of Women, C...
Strengthening the resilience of rural women in COVID-19 times
04 June 2020
Social enterprise Rise Beyond the Reef (RBTR) reflects on the importance of maintaining ties with the 350 rural women artisans (from 23 villages from Ba, Ra, Macuata and Nairai) that her organisation has partnered with over the ...
Healthy choices transform lives
03 June 2020
MSP’s services go beyond women’s health and family planning, it also offers counselling and legal services to women and youth especially those who have experienced sexual assault, violence, disaster conflict and other forms of...
Overcoming gender stereotypes in rugby
28 February 2020
“The struggles and obstacles that women in sport face on a daily basis is often undocumented and only known by those within the fraternity. Our society and culture still wrangle with the reality that women can lift weights, tack...
From milk to mushrooms, how the Naitasiri Women in Dairy are expanding their horizons
12 November 2019
Over the past two months (September – October), the NWDG have diversified into new forms of income-generating activities. Through an additional capacity development grant from the Fund, the women were able to learn how to cult...
An innovative approach to developing future women leaders
12 November 2019
The Young Feminist Rise Project: Young Women Lead Initiative, a two-year programme funded by the Fiji Women’s Fund aims to create an enabling environment for young women to take the lead in driving their collective advocacy acti...