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>Rise Beyond the Reef</span>
Making sure no one misses out: Ways to prevent and eliminate violence against women and girls in Fiji
19 October 2020
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...
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 ...
Recognising the contribution of rural women to national development
12 November 2019
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...
Safeguarding Team formed out of GESI training
12 November 2019
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...
Impact Assessment finds that 95% of women participating in the project gained more control over household resources
12 November 2019
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...
Impact of Rise Beyond the Reef in Rural Fiji – An Assessment
22 October 2019
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...
Key lessons the Fiji Women’s Fund has learned about empowering women economically
18 October 2019
The Fund has learnt three key lessons in supporting women’s economic empowerment (WEE) over the three years that the Fund has provided grants. ...