We recognise that whilst we are building resilience in our communities to respond to crises like the pandemic, we need to also build lasting relationships and approaches that help us achieve gender transformational and attitudinal...
Our experience working with 44 initiatives, many of them rural and community-based, is that transformative change is possible. ...
A research paper based on the work of four of the Fund’s grantee partners who are working to prevent and eliminate violence against women and girls in Fiji. The paper explains the different approaches they have used and tailored...
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...
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 ...
To celebrate International Rural Women's Day, the Fund launched a publication highlighting some of the key lessons that it has learned in supporting women’s economic empowerment initiatives. Promising Practices from Fiji in em...
A ‘Safeguarding Team’ was formed consisting of male and female representatives from RBTR partner communities to create "champions" on-the-ground for carrying out this work long-term in their respective communities and within t...
In April of this year, Fund grantee Rise Beyond the Reef (RBTR) completed an Impact Assessment of its work in Fiji’s rural communities, and particularly how that work has affected and improved women’s lives. A total of 126 wo...
Rise Beyond the Reef (RBTR) was founded in 2013 to address the unique development needs of Fiji’s remote rural communities. The program’s primary goal is to improve women’s lives through ecologically sustainable income-gener...
