Research
The Toksave Pacific Gender Resource hosts a wide range of research that aims to advance gender equality in the Pacific. We take a broad approach to ‘research’ that includes original research based on the analysis of primary or secondary data; policy and evaluation oriented research; research based on creative and performing arts; and completed high level degree theses. We are particularly interested in research that is based on Pacific research methodologies and methods, involves Pacific-centred subject matter and impacts on Pacific communities.
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We welcome submissions of all research on gender in the Pacific, and especially by researchers with Pacific heritage or deep connections to the Pacific.
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Research Methodology
Economy
Development
Submitted on June 1, 2023
Promoting women’s economic empowerment is a strategic operational priority of the Asian Development Bank (ADB), governments, and civil society in Pacific developing member countries. ADB’s Strategy 2030 aims to support quality job-generation and higher value-added...
Women's Economic Empowerment in the Pacific Region - A Comprehensive Analysis of Existing Research and Data
Asian Development Bank
Development
Submitted on May 10, 2023
The study analyzes support for fisheries management through the adoption of ethical principles that can initiate change in individual behaviour, attitude and actions implicit in the current policies for achieving sustainable fisheries. It highlights that...
Recognizing the role of women in supporting marine stewardship in the Pacific Islands
Vina Ram-Bidesi
Education
Submitted on February 22, 2023
Pacific women’s narratives offer insight into how universities currently under-serve and exclude Pacific communities in their everyday practices. Utilising a women-centred Pacific research methodology (masi methodology) this article shares the results of talanoa with twenty-seven...
Pacific women’s experiences working in universities in Aotearoa New Zealand
Sereana Naepi
Economy
Development
Culture
Submitted on August 20, 2022
This issue of Gender Matters by the International Womens Development Agency (IWDA) presents research on women’s and men’s economic contributions and their experiences of gender relations in rural and urban settlements in Solomon Islands and...
Rivers and Coconuts: Conceptualising and measuring gender equality in semi-subsistent communities in Melanesia
Research Methodology
Economy
Development
Culture
Submitted on August 20, 2022
It appears that an almost unquestioned development pathway for achieving gender equity and women’s empowerment has taken centre stage in mainstream development. This pathway focuses on economic outcomes that are assumed to be achieved by...
Creating community‐based indicators of gender equity: A methodology
Economy
Development
Culture
Submitted on August 20, 2022
The economic empowerment of women is emerging as a core focus of both economic development and gender equality programmes internationally. At the same time, there is increasing importance placed on measuring outcomes and quantifying progress towards gender and...
Gender equality and economic empowerment in the Solomon Islands and Fiji: a place-based approach
Environment
Economy
Submitted on July 12, 2022
Gender equality, a universal agreed principle and value, has been adopted widely but implemented to varying levels in different sectors. Our study was designed to contrast how gender development (here-after ’development’) and fisheries sectors view...
Progressing gender equality in fisheries by building strategic partnerships with development organisations
Identity
Education
Culture
Communication
Arts
Submitted on June 29, 2022
Crossing Spaces is a series of three documentary shorts profiling three Micronesian women in Honolulu as they grapple with the challenges of higher education and work to enact meaningful change for their families and communities....
Crossing Spaces: Pohnpei FSM to Hawaiʻi
Development
Submitted on June 27, 2022
On 20 March 2022, community transmission of COVID-19 was identified in Samoa,and subsequent set up of community testing sites found that COVID-19 was found throughout the communities of Upolu and Savaii islands. At the finalisation...
Gender and Disability Analysis-COVID-19 Samoa
Mata’afa Fa’atino Utumapu
Adimaimalaga Tafunai
Fuimaono Rosalia Me
Annika Tierney Lemisio
Sally Baker
Tessa Walsh
Identity
Culture
Communication
Submitted on June 14, 2022
In the Pacific region, being the eldest daughter in the family comes with a lot of responsibility. Eldest daughters often become a second mother to their younger siblings, take on special roles caring for extended...
Sistas, Let's Talk Podcast: Being the eldest sister in the Pacific
