Region:Asia Pacific
Current UN Women Plan Period Afghanisthan:2018-2022
World Bank Income Classification:Low Income
The World Bank classifies economies for analytical purposes into four income groups: low, lower-middle, upper-middle, and high income. For this purpose it uses gross national income (GNI) per capita data in U.S. dollars, converted from local currency using the World Bank Atlas method, which is applied to smooth exchange rate fluctuations.
Least Developed Country:Yes
Since 1971, the United Nations has recognized LDCs as a category of States that are deemed highly disadvantaged in their development process, for structural, historical and also geographical reasons. Three criteria are used: per capita income, human assets, and economic vulnerability.
Gender Inequality Index:0.575
GII is a composite metric of gender inequality using three dimensions: reproductive health, empowerment and the labour market. A low GII value indicates low inequality between women and men, and vice-versa.
Gender Development Index:0.723
GDI measures gender inequalities in achievement in three basic dimensions of human development: health, education, and command over economic resources.
Population:209,497,025
Source of population data: United Nations, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division (2022). World Population Prospects: The 2022 Revision
Male:19,976,265 (9.5%)
Female:189,520,760 (90.5%)
outcome XM-DAC-41146-FIJ_D_3.1
Women and men in target communities demonstrate support to survivors of violence and practice balanced power in their relationships
Prevention infrastructure in Fiji, Kiribati, Vanuatu, Samoa and at the regional level was strengthened through promising changes in harmful social norms alongside strengthening of the enabling environment that condemns violence. The intended outcomes of changing attitudes to ensure more balanced power within interpersonal and intimate partner relationships was achieved. This has been achieved through: Positive changes in women and men's support to survivors and increased balanced power in relationships as documented in Fiji through the House of Sarah (HoS) and Anglican Church in Fiji's programme, "Preventing Violence Against Women in Fiji's Faith Setting" and the Kiribati through the "Strengthening Peaceful Villages (SPV) Programme". In Kiribati, 38% of women and 46% of men assisted a woman who was being beaten by her husband or partner in the previous 12 months, which is an increase from the baseline of 24 and 27 percentage points (p.p) respectively. Similarly in Fiji, 56% of men and 73% of women have assisted a woman who was experiencing violence at home, an average increase of 38.25 p.p. The impact of developing evidence on what works to prevent VAWG in communities across the Pacific has enormous potential, with faith-based partners regionally showing interest in scaling up what works in Fiji. VAWG prevention infrastructure in Fiji was significantly strengthened with the submission to the Solicitor General's office the Fiji National Action Plan to Prevent Violence Against Women and Girls, following comprehensive consultations across the nation and intensive support to the Ministry of Women, Children and Poverty Alleviation. At the regional level, the sport sector gained significant momentum and visibility on women in sport through strategic communications campaigns on women in football at the regional Women's Nations Cup, elevation of the Pacific at the International Working Group on Women in Sport held in Auckland, New Zealand and the expansion of partners visibly speaking out on gender discrimination with UN Women, including Oceania Football Confederation and Oceania National Olympics Committees. At the regional level, faith institutions and faith organisations advanced their commitments and actions towards gender equality initiatives. Most notably, The Pacific Conference of Churches (PCC) partnered with UN Women to develop and launch a Gender Status Card for Churches. The status card is the first of its kind in the Pacific and has received international recognition by the World Council of Churches as a best practice. In fact, the World Council of Churches lauded the tool as the first of its kind globally amongst its members and networks. The status card is an action-oriented resource, developed in consultation and partnership with member churches across the Pacific and guides PCC’s member churches and other faith organizations in the region on assessing, monitoring, and implementing their commitments towards creating safe churches free from GBV. UN Women played a pivotal role in achieving the aforementioned outcomes. UN Women provided substantive technical assistance in programme design, M&E, implementation of interventions and communications and advocacy. Through close, engaged mentorship and capacity-strengthening built over years of relationship development with diverse partners in the aforementioned countries, progress was realized. Despite multiple challenges including disasters, COVID-19 and changes in the political will to forward gender equality, UN Women’s programme on ending violence against women and girls has been able to remain steadfast in its theory of change and approach to facilitating a more equitable Pacific for all women and girls.
outcome XM-DAC-41146-FIJ_D_3.2
Women and Girls, especially from particular groups (with disabilities, rural, sexual and gender minorities) from target countries, who experience violence have access to quality essential services (health, social service, police and justice) to recover from violence
Despite community transmission of COVID-19 in Kiribati, Solomon Islands and Tonga, women and girls in all their diversity were able to continue to access quality gender-based violence (GBV) services from essential service providers as a result of UN Women coordinated preparedness activities developed and implemented in partnership with national women’s machineries and civil society organizations (CSOs). For the first time ever, women and girls from more rural and hard to reach locations had access to survivor-centred response services, with the capacity of frontline workers built and rollout of Solomon Islands, Kiribati and Fiji service delivery systems rolled out to outer islands/provinces/divisions. In response to the volcano-tsunami-COVID crisis in Tonga, women and children received access to essential services and psychosocial support through holistic mobile services including GBV essential and non-essential through the Tonga Women and Children’s Crisis Center. Within 24 hours, local responders were at the helm on conducting safety audits and providing culturally-relevant counselling and referral support to the most at-risk women and girls. Also, UN Women significantly enhanced the Government of Tonga’s capacity to respond to emergencies by strengthening existing systems and mechanisms of the national women’s machinery. Moreover, GBV referral data is now kept safely and confidentially, with coordinated systems and tools in place to support this. Members of the Kiribati and Solomon Islands SafeNet/SAFENET networks now have the knowledge and skills to use the GBV administrative data system. Finally, Kiribati’s Ministry of Women, Youth, Sports and Social Affairs (MWYSSA) has for the first time formally registered GBV counsellors on the national government registry for Domestic Violence (DV) Counsellors, a milestone in ensuring standardized, safe and best practice delivery of GBV counselling. Regional efforts culminated in a historic Regional Services Symposium that brought together over 100 diverse representatives from across the region to articulate and come to consensus on key recommendations to drive service delivery quality in the region. An Outcomes Document articulates key areas of focus and lays out the first regional roadmap for responding to survivors of gender-based violence. The recommendations informed the 3 rd Regional Working Group on DV Legislation and are a key document to inform the Pacific Leader’s Gender Equality Declaration alongside other regional frameworks.
outcome XM-DAC-41146-FIJ_D_3.3
Legislative and policy frameworks, based on evidence and in line with international human rights standards, on all forms of VAWG and harmful practices are in place and translated into plans
The Costing of VAWG study (with a focus on Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) in Fiji, Solomon Islands, and the Republic of the Marshall Islands was successfully completed in 2022. The research findings for Solomon Islands and the Republic of the Marshall Islands will be released publicly by the Government of Solomon Islands and UN Women in early 2023. Knowledge products have been developed out of the Study findings. These include the following Policy Briefs and Report Summaries: Republic of the Marshall Islands: Summary Report: Costing the Impact of Intimate Partner Violence and the Resources Require to Address it. Republic of the Marshall Islands Evidence Brief: Costing of the Impact of Intimate Partner Violence and the Resources Require to Address it. Solomon Islands: Summary Report: Costing the Impact of Intimate Partner Violence and the Resources Require to Address it Solomon Islands Evidence Brief: Costing of the Impact of Intimate Partner Violence and the Resources Require to Address it The research findings for Fiji will be released by the Government of Fiji with the launch of the Fiji National Action Plan to End VAWG, anticipated in early 2023. These knowledge products and plan will contribute towards the strengthening of evidence-based knowledge and capacities to assess gaps and draft new and or strengthen existing legislation on ending VAWG. UN Women, through the Spotlight Initiative, provided financial towards the Costing of VAWG Study. The Fiji National Action Plan to End VAWG is also resourced by UN Women through the Pacific Partnership to End VAWG.
outcome XM-DAC-41146-FIJ_D_4.1
Humanitarian planning, response frameworks and programming are gender and protection inclusive and responsive (modified FPI LEAP Outcome 1)
Progress has been made in developing inclusive, protection and gender-responsive frameworks and programming for improving humanitarian planning and response for Pacific humanitarian actors. Capacity building initiatives have led humanitarian and response actors to better understand which groups are discriminated against the most, which are at risk, and where they are located. Perceptions have begun to shift slowly about meaningful inclusion and non-discrimination. This has enabled actors to develop robust frameworks and programming to better tailor their emergency support to the most vulnerable. In addition, the Pacific Humanitarian Team have also increased the integration of gender and protection in humanitarian planning and response frameworks and programmes. Dedicated support to the Tonga Safety and Protection (S&P) Cluster has increased its capacity to respond to protection needs in a more coordinated way in the wake of the Tonga volcano crisis. Through UN Women’s technical analysis and inputs in these areas, humanitarian planning and response frameworks are ensuring policy language that addresses violence and keeping people safe from harm, addresses discrimination and understanding of people’s different needs, risk, and capacities, and actively addresses exclusion to as to meaningfully ensure the engagement of excluded people. UN Women provided capacity building and technical support to the above initiatives.
outcome XM-DAC-41146-FIJ_D_4.2
Women lead preparedness for and response to natural disasters (FPI GIR Outcome 4)
Progress has been made in strengthening the capacity of organisations to lead and contribute to humanitarian preparedness and response through UN Women’s regional response covering several countries in the Pacific. Women-led organizations from Fiji, Solomon Islands and Vanuatu have strengthened their knowledge and skills and are now more confident to lead in any emergency response after their meaningful participation in trainings, workshops, and meetings covering topics such as Gender in Humanitarian Action (GiHA) and Gender Based Violence in Emergency (GBViE) that were co-facilitated by UN Women and relevant Government ministries across the three countries. In 2022, UN Women expanded its reach to the Northern Pacific to support organizations in humanitarian preparedness and response work. This has resulted in organisations in Palau having increased knowledge and skills on GiHA, GBViE through a dedicated training opportunity provided to the Palau Red Cross and its partners.Showing 6 - 10 of 15
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