A hub for learning, collaboration, and action to end violence against women and girls in the Pacific

Contributor: Department for Community Development and Religion (DfCDR); Constitutional and Law Reform Commission (CIMC); UNDP; OHCHR

Manual for Human Rights Defenders in Papua New Guinea Working with Survivors of Gender Based Violence

Awareness raising materials

Engaging with religious actors on gender inequality and gender-based violence – Compilation of practices 2021

Contributor: House of Sarah

Country: Fiji

Toolkit on Eliminating Violence Against Women and Girls with Disabilities in Samoan Vernacular

Country: Samoa

Toolkits

Toolkit on Eliminating Violence Against Women and Girls with Disabilities in Kiribati English

Country: Kiribati

Toolkits

Toolkit on Eliminating Violence Against Women and Girls with Disabilities in Kiribati Vernacular

Country: Kiribati

Toolkits

Toolkit on Eliminating Violence Against Women and Girls with Disabilities in Fiji in English

Country: Fiji

Contributor: National GBV Secretariat

Manual on National and International Frameworks for addressing Gender Based Violence in Papua New Guinea

Contributor: National GBV Secretariat

Manual for Training Human Rights Defenders in Papua New Guinea Working with Survivors of GBV (2016)

Laws, policies and procedures

FSC PSEAH Policy

Contributor: Family Support Centre (FSC)

Country: Solomon Islands

Laws, policies and procedures

FSC Inclusion Policy for People Living with Disabilities

Contributor: Family Support Centre (FSC)

Country: Solomon Islands

Laws, policies and procedures

FSC Gender Policy

Contributor: Family Support Centre (FSC)

Country: Solomon Islands

Location: Papua New Guinea

Research

Pacific-led research to support ending VAWG.

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FWCC Statistics

FWCC Fiji

Fiji Women's Crisis Centre statistics (2015–2025) show total counselling cases across branches, covering domestic violence, rape, child abuse, sexual harassment, and related cases.

Somebody’s Life Everybody’s Business: National Research on Women’s Health and Life Experiences in Fiji (2010/2011): A Summary exploring the prevalence, incidence, and attitudes to intimate partner violence in Fiji

Fiji Women's Crisis Centre

This booklet summarises the findings of FWCC’s national research on men’s violence against women. A survey of 3193 women was undertaken in 2011 in all four Divisions of Fiji. Women...

Federated States of Micronesia Family Health and Safety Survey 2014

The Federated States of Micronesia Department of Health and Social Affairs

The Federated States of Micronesia (FSM) Family Health and Safety Study was the first research effort to gather comprehensive information around violence against women in the country. The FSM Family...

We Don’t Whisper Anymore Ending Violence Against Women in the North Pacific

Corporate Author: Pacific Women (Pacific Women Shaping Pacific Development)

Pacific Community (SPC)

This 'story of change' booklet is one of 2 publications in the 'We don’t whisper anymore: ending violence against women in the North Pacific' series. It explains the chronology, partners...

‘Someone Save Me from Him’ (2015) Findings from the Community Engagement Study on the Design of the Violence Against Women and Girls Support Service in the Republic of the Marshall Islands.

Alison Birchall

Women United Together Marshall Islands (WUTMI)

The prevalence of VAW/G in the Pacific region is the highest in the world (Pacific Women Shaping Pacific Development, 2015a). The violence that women and girls experience damages their health,...

Report on the Values and Attitudes of males and females toward Violence Against Women & Girls in the Marshall Islands- Baseline Study 2017

Pacific Resources for Education and Learning (PREL)

Pacific Resources for Education & Learning, Honolulu, and Women United Together Marshall Islands (WUTMI)

The purpose of the study is to inform Weto in Mour’s (WiM’s) activity development, and the results of the study will serve as a baseline against which the impact of...

Family Health Safety Study 2014

Corporate Author: UNFPA Pacific Sub-Regional Office

Republic of the Marshall Islands Ministry of Internal Affairs

Closing the Justice Gap for Women with Intellectual and/ or psychosocial disabilities in Asia and the Pacific Research Study

Laura-Lee Sage, Georgia Westaway

UN Women Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific

There is a justice gap faced by women with intellectual and/ or psychosocial disabilities in the Asia-Pacific region. Despite guarantees in domestic legal frameworks and the obligations contained within the...

Closing the Justice Gap for Women with Intellectual and/ or psychosocial disabilities in Asia and the Pacific Summary Report

Centre for Disability Law and Policy and the Irish Centre for Human Rights at the University of Galway, with inputs by Georgia Westaway and Laura-Lee Sage

Centre for Disability Law and Policy and the Irish Centre for Human Rights at the University of Galway

Women with intellectual and/or psychosocial disabilities face a justice gap, globally. To gather evidence to inform recommendations on how States in Asia and the Pacific can close this gap, a...

Women and young people with disabilities in Vanuatu: Needs assessment of sexual and reproductive health and rights, gender-based violence, and access to essential services

Sofía Minieri

United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), Women Enabled International (WEI), Pacific Disability Forum (PDF)

Due to the limited implementation of the Convention of the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) and the national legal and policy frameworks on gender and disability rights, persons with...

Women and young people with disabilities in Samoa: Needs assessment of sexual and reproductive health and rights, gender-based violence, and access to essential services

Anastasia Holoboff Radford

United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), Women Enabled International (WEI), Pacific Disability Forum (PDF)

Women and young people with disabilities in Samoa experience a range of restrictions to accessing sexual and reproductive health (SRH) and gender-based violence (GBV) services on an equal basis with...

Women and young people with disabilities in Fiji: Needs assessment of sexual and reproductive health and rights, gender-based violence, and access to essential services

Suzannah Phillips

United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), Women Enabled International (WEI), Pacific Disability Forum (PDF)

Women and young people with disabilities living in Fiji face significant barriers that hinder their full and effective participation in society on an equal basis with others. In particular, as...

Safehouse Baseline Survey Report 2024

Department for Community Development and Religion – National Gender-Based Violence Secretariat Papua New Guinea

Department for Community Development and Religion National Gender-Based Violence Secretariat

In 2024, the Department for Community Development and Religion (DfCDR), through the National Gender Based Violence Secretariat (NGBVS), conducted a nationwide baseline survey on safe houses. The purpose of this...

Papua New Guinea: UN Secretary General’s Study on Violence Against Children

United Nations

Provided by the Papua New Guinea National Gender-Based Violence Secretariat (NGBVS). This report outlines the prevalence, drivers and legal context of violence against children in PNG, including abuse, exploitation and...

Desk Review of Child Protection Services in PNG Today

Nancy Sullivan

Provided by the Papua New Guinea National Gender-Based Violence Secretariat (NGBVS). Commissioned to inform a national child protection analysis, this report examines strengths and gaps in PNG’s child protection system,...

Gender Violence in Papua New Guinea: The Cost to Business

Emily Darko; William Smith; David Walker

Provided by the Papua New Guinea National Gender-Based Violence Secretariat (NGBVS). This report examines the prevalence and economic impact of gender-based violence on businesses in PNG, including productivity loss, absenteeism,...

Monitoring and Evaluation

Evidence and learning that show what works, what doesn’t, and why.

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Independent Formative Evaluation of Family Support Centres in Papua New Guinea

IOD PARC; UNICEF

Provided by the Papua New Guinea National Gender-Based Violence Secretariat (NGBVS). This evaluation assesses the relevance, effectiveness, efficiency, and sustainability of Family Support Centres in PNG, highlighting their critical role in supporting survivors and identifying key gaps in resourcing, coordination, and service delivery. For more research articles click here: https://ngbvs.com/gbv-papers/

WUTMI / WiM Pre & Post Evaluation form for prevention activities

WUTMI/WiM pre- and post-evaluation form measures prevention activity impact, capturing participant feedback, learning, and changes in awareness and attitudes.

Data for client referral, July–December 2024

WUTMI/WiM July–December 2024 referral data shows anonymized survivor details, services requested/received, and data guidelines in the Marshall Islands.

Data for client referral, Jan–June 2024

WUTMI/WiM Jan–June 2024 referral data shows anonymized survivor details, services requested/received, and data guidelines in the Marshall Islands.

2024 Rapid Review of Tongen Inepwineu Counseling Center

Location: Federated States of Micronesia

This report presents the findings from a rapid review undertaken by Chuuk Women’s Council and the Pacific Community (SPC) on the Tongen Inepwineu Counseling Center (TICC). Focusing on three key review questions around effectiveness, efficiency and lessons learnt, the review considers TICC since its’ inception in 2020 through both the Pacific Women Shaping Pacific Development and Pacific Women Lead programs.

2024 Rapid Review of Weto in Mour

This report presents the findings from a rapid review undertaken by Women United Together Marshall Islands (WUTMI) and the Pacific Community (SPC) on the Weto in Mour (WiM) program. Focusing on three key review questions around effectiveness, efficiency and lessons learnt, the review considers WiM since its’ inception in 2016 through both Pacific Women Shaping Pacific Development and Pacific Women Lead programs.

Fiji: Stories of survival, hope and activism-

House of Sarah is a faith-based civil society organization working to prevent violence against women and girls using the SASA! Faith methodology, an evidence-based approach used to inspire and mobilize communities to prevent violence against women and girls. It also documents evidence and lessons so that others may learn from and be inspired by their experience to adapt faith-based prevention programming to their own contexts. UN Women Fiji Multi-Country Office is a long-term partner of House Sarah, and currently supports their efforts through the Pacific Partnership to End Violence Against Women and Girls (Pacific Partnership) funded primarily by the European Union and the Governments of Australia and New Zealand.

We Are All Created Equal: Preventing VAWG in Fiji’s Faith Settings (Paper commissioned by UN Women FMCO & produced by Equality Institute, Australia)

This paper is for policy makers, practitioners and faith-based organisations working to prevent VAWG in faith settings in Fiji, the Pacific, and beyond. It describes the journey of House of Sarah, a faith-based civil society organisation in Suva, Fiji, working to prevent VAWG, and documents evidence and lessons so that others may learn from and be inspired by their experience to adapt faith-based prevention programming to their own contexts.

Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning Plan for Tongen Inepwineu Counseling Center

Location: Federated States of Micronesia

This Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL) Plan is intended to create a systematic way for Tongen Inepwineu Counseling Center (TICC) at the Chuuk Women’s Council (CWC) to guide monitoring data collection, learning and reporting. The MEL Plan provides guidance to understanding how TICC contributes to CWC’s overarching mission as well as Pacific Women Lead at SPC’s (PWL at SPC) intended outcomes, and to guide reporting associated reporting requirements. It is a living document that will be reviewed and updated as needed and covers the period every 12 months and cover the period from October 2023 to June 2024.

Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning Framework

The Women United Together Marshall Islands (WUTMI)/Weto in Mour (WiM) Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning Framework (MELF) 2021–2025 outlines how WUTMI/WiM track progress, measure impact, and strengthen learning to improve the programme addressing gender equality and ending violence against women and girls in the Marshall Islands.

National GBV Secretariat PNG

Licence: CC BY-NC

Independent Formative Evaluation of Family Support Centres in Papua New Guinea

This formative evaluation aimed to generate findings and recommendations to improve the on-going implementation of FSCs in Papua New Guinea, and determine what worked and what did not work, analysing both the constraining and enabling factors.This evaluation is the first formal independent assessment of the Family Support Centres since their introduction in 2003. The unit of analysis was 14 FSCs from 2003 until the present. Nine of the FSCs are supported by UNICEF2 and five FSCs were established by other partners. The objective of the evaluation was to determine the relevance, effectiveness, efficiency, sustainability and contribution to equity of the FSC approach. The primary users of the evaluation findings are the National Department of Health (NDoH) and Provincial Health Authorities/Administrations; Family Sexual Violence Action Committee (FSVAC); Department of Community Development, Youth & Religion (DfCDYR); and UNICEF as a key supporting partner. Secondary users include wider development partners (UN agencies, bilateral donors), faith based organizations, and civil society partners in PNG supporting the FSC approach.

Location: Papua New Guinea

Preventing Violence Against Women in Fiji’s Faith Settings End of Project Evaluation Report

This Evaluation Report presents the independent end of project evaluation (the evaluation) of the House of Sarah (HOS) Preventing Violence Against Women in Fiji’s Faith Settings (PVAWFFS) project
(the project). The evaluation was conducted between May - July 2023 by Collaborate Consulting Pte Ltd (CoLAB) consultant Leaine Robinson, and independent consultant and EVAW specialist,
Liliwaimanu Vuiyasawa (the evaluation team). The evaluation focused on assessing the extent to which the PVAWFFS project is relevant, effective, efficient, and sustainable and to provide HOS with recommendations to help inform future directions of the project.

Mid term Evaluation Report: Preventing Violence Against Women in Fiji’s Faith Settings Project

This report presents the independent Mid Term Evaluation (MTE) of the House of Sarah (HOS) Preventing Violence Against Women in Fiji’s Faith Settings (PAWFFS) project (also referred to in this report as ‘the project’). The PVAWFFS project is funded by the Fiji Women’s Fund (the Fund) and UN Women. The MTE was conducted between September- October 2020 by Fiji based development consultants, Iris Low and Leaine Robinson.

The project commenced in 2018 in three Anglican Parishes: 1) St Michael and All Angels Parish in Matata, Lami; 2) St Mark Parish in Newtown; and 3) St John the Baptist Parish at Wailoku. The PVAWFFS project utilises SASA!, an activist prevention model for preventing Violence Against Women (VAW) developed by Raising Voices, Uganda and Trocaire, Ireland, specifically the SASA! Faith model which takes the structure, process, and content of SASA! and adapts it for use by religious communities.

Campaigns and Advocacy

Campaign and advocacy initiatives from organisations that have been used to engage communities, share stories, and drive social change.

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Hero-ine

Film “Hero-ine” explores gender attitudes through the story of male and female heroes facing challenges, encouraging reflection on equality and respect. It is used by the Family Support Centre to support discussions with local authorities on gender issues and strengthen efforts to address violence and abuse in communities.

Lookim Reportim

Lookim Reportim shows how everyone can help keep girls safe by speaking out against violence and supporting one another, with contact details for the Family Support Centre for help and support.

Reels and shorts

FWCC

Reels and shorts from the FWCC Facebook page capture years of activism across Fiji to end violence against women and girls. They document community campaigns, advocacy messages, and public engagement, amplifying awareness, survivor voices, and collective action to challenge violence and promote safer, more respectful communities.

Breaking the Silence

FWCC

“Breaking the Silence” is an anthology of writings by women in Fiji and across the Pacific documenting experiences of violence against women and girls. Originating from the 1993 Pacific Women’s Documentation Project, it reflects courage, healing, empowerment, and shared strength, while raising awareness and preserving survivor stories across the region.

Beneath Paradise

FWCC

“Beneath Paradise” is the inaugural 2013 edition of the magazine of the Pacific Women’s Network Against Violence Against Women. It features regional perspectives, stories, and advocacy on ending violence against women, amplifying survivor voices and promoting collective action, awareness, and feminist solidarity across Pacific communities.

TICC photo of Neechummeres Poem for Kiki CWC

Poem written in memory of Christina (“Kiki”) Sinnett, one of the founders of CWC, honouring her life, leadership, and lasting contribution to supporting survivors and ending violence against women.

TICC photo of White Ribbon Campaign Banner for 16 Days of Activism

Chuuk, Federated States of Micronesia White Ribbon Campaign during the 16 Days of Activism, raising awareness and encouraging men’s engagement to end violence against women and girls.

CWC 10th Anniversary Video – Introducing TICC and the GBV counselling service

Chuuk Women's Council 10th Anniversary video introducing TICC and its GBV counselling services, highlighting support available for survivors of gender-based violence and contact details

TICC Banner

The TICC banner in Chuuk, Federated States of Micronesia, promoting non-judgemental and confidential counselling services for survivors of violence.

Staying Safe at Home (COVID-19)

COVID-19 video by WUTMI encouraging safety measures, including staying home, to protect communities in the Marshall Islands and reduce the spread of the virus.

16 Days of Activism 2013

2013 16 Days of Activism campaign by WUTMI and WiM in the Marshall Islands focused on raising awareness, prevention, and community action to end violence against women and girls.

16 Days of Activism 2023

Video of 2023 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence in the Marshall Islands, led by Women United Together Marshall Islands (WUTMI) and Weto in Mour, focused on raising awareness and promoting prevention of violence against women and girls.

Video of WUTMI One Billion Rising dance 2013

Video of WUTMI’s 2013 One Billion Rising campaign in the Marshall Islands, joining the global movement to end violence against women and girls. Through collective dance and public action, the campaign raises awareness, shows solidarity with survivors, and calls for communities to take a stand against violence.

Video of WUTMI One Billion Rising dance 2024

Video of WUTMI’s 2024 One Billion Rising campaign in the Marshall Islands, part of the world’s largest mass action to end violence against women and girls. Launched in 2012, the movement calls on people to rise, dance, and protest, highlighting that one in three women globally experience violence.

Solomon Islands GBV Prevention Posters Pigin Version

Family Support Centre olketa poster long Solomon Islands Pijin version blo Novemba 2025 16 Days of Activism campaign, olketa promotem awareness mo prevention blo violence, tokabaot child abuse, importance blo toktok and action, mo olketa impact blo silence long gender-based violence long olketa woman mo gele.

Solomon Islands GBV Prevention Posters English