In this seminar we will hear from Leituala Kuiniselani Toelupe Tago-Elisara, director of the Pacific Community’s Social Development Programme (SDP). The SDP’s goal is to ‘advance gender equality, social inclusion and cultural diversity to obtain equal development outcomes in key settings across the region’.
During the seminar some of the challenges faced by women and youth face in the region will be discussed, as will the ways the SDP is seeking to address them, highlighting lessons learned and how these lessons may be applied in the future.
Maria Tanyag and Jacqui True, ‘Gender Responsive Alternatives on Climate Change from a Feminist Standpoint’, in Catarina Kinnvall and Helle Rydstrom, eds, Climate Hazards, Disasters, and Gender
Maria Tanyag, ‘Chapter 35 Climate Change: Mainstreaming Gender in the Green Climate Fund’, in Richard Devetak, Jim George, and Sarah Percy, eds, An Introduction to International Relations,
On International Women’s Day 2019 a large audience, including a contingent of current male and female Australia Awards scholars, attended a special panel seminar on Pacific women’s political participation at the invitation of ANU’s Department of Pacific Affairs (DPA), and the Australian Government Department of Foreign Affairs.
