Fiji Multi-Country Office for the Pacific Serving the Cook Islands, Federated States of Micronesia, Fiji, Kiribati, Marshall Islands, Nauru, Niue, Palau, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tokelau, Tonga, Tuvalu and Vanuatu FIJI MCO PROGRAMMATIC CONTEXT

2020 priority focus is on delivering across all programmatic areas and responding to COVID 19 impacts on women and girls. Further funding is being sought for some areas such as Markets for Change.

Expanded coordination role of UN Women with Pacific Gender Coordination Mechanism in addition to UN Pacific Strategy Outcome 2 which is on gender equality. The Protection Cluster of the Pacific Humanitarian Team, and also gender coordination with key partners at the regional level – Regional Pacific Governmental organisations (PIFS, SPC,) UN agencies, CSOs.

UNW Pacific is now midway through our Strategic Note 2018-2022. We will be reaching out to all partners at the country level to gather feedback on our current Strategic Note to see if our plans remain relevant- and if we need to change, what changes may be needed. PROGRAMMATIC FOCUS

1. EVAWG - (Regional + Fiji, Kiribati, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Vanuatu and Tonga) Pacific Partnership and Spotlight

2. Women’s Economic Empowerment (WEE)- Markets for Change (Fiji, Solomon Islands, Vanuatu + one new country)

3. Women’s Political Empowerment and Leadership (WPEL) (Samoa and Solomon Islands):

4. Gender and Humanitarian Action –(Regional +Fiji, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tonga and Vanuatu)

5. Coordination and Normative – Regional – regional and international intergovernmental processes

Challenges: Resource mobilization for some countries – N. Pacific 2020 PROGRAMMATIC FOCUS BY COUNTRY

REGIONAL WORK: - HUMANITARIAN - CEDAW, CSW, Beijing + 25 - EVAW FPI

EVAW FPI

M4C

Humanitarian

WPEL COVID 19 and TC Harold Response Ending Violence Against Women and Girls

Pacific Partnership • UN Women supports 1 country programme • Joint programme with Pacific Islands Forum Secretariat and the (Samoa) and the Regional programme which Pacific Community’s Regional Rights Resource Team (SPC RRRT) has a multi-country component for Solomon Islands • 8 countries, regional deliverables – 33 million USD • Key focus on civil society capacity building • Prevention – national violence prevention frameworks, plans, tools and research • Joint programme – UNDP, UNFPA, UNICEF, IOM and UN Women – key partners – SPC • Essential Services – multi-sector, multi-partner agreements on RRRT and PIFS Service Delivery Protocols, Referral pathways - • Gender Responsive Budgeting • Standards and frameworks – ie Agreed Regional Counselling frameworks • Over 90 partners – Government, Regional intergovernmental agencies, civil society, sports and faith (Oceania Rugby and Pacific Conference of Churches) • EU, Australia and NZ • Began in 2017 – funding until 2021 Ending Violence Against Women and Girls

Supporting service providers Salvation Army with PPE supplies Vanuatu Women's Centre Coordinator Merilyn Tahi – Suva, Fiji Economic Vulnerability - Markets for Change

Luganville market - Renovation work / upgrade on the Luganville was completed and officially re-opened on 1 November 2019. Funding for Market Vendor Association members putting up COVID 19 hygiene the upgrade was provided by the Government of Australia through messages. the Markets for Change project. Over 3,200 vendors from Northern Vanuatu use the Luganville, Santo market. Tropical Cyclone Harold made landfall in Santo on 6 April. The market was one of the few buildings remaining standing - suffering only minor damage. As a result, vendors were back in the market within days of the cyclone. Gender and Humanitarian Action

Integrated approach to address gender and protection in humanitarian action, disaster risk reduction and management and climate change

• Coordination of the Pacific Humanitarian Protection Cluster and technical and coordination support to national clusters (Fiji, Solomon Islands, Vanuatu, Tonga, Samoa) to ensure gender and protection in preparedness, response and recovery phases • Gender Inequality of Risk (Sol) -Promoting women's participation DRR, gender responsive DRR • Women's Resilience to Disasters (Kiribati, Vanuatu, Fiji, RMI) under design with country consultations • Women's Peace and Humanitarian Fund (Fiji, Palau) Women’s Political Empowerment and Leadership

Inclusive Governance of Natural Resources for greater social cohesion in the Solomon Islands (Jan 2020 – Dec 2021) • Jointly implemented by UNDP & UN Women • Funded by UN Peacebuilding Fund • Supporting women's participation in natural resource management

Women in Leadership Samoa (WILS) (April 2018 – Oct 2022) - Jointly implemented by UNDP and UN Women Supporting women into elected leadership roles

UN Women is committed to resource mobilization for women in leadership programming Normative Coordination

• CEDAW • Support to SDG Goal 5 – 50-50 by 2030 • Beijing + 25 support to reporting • Support to CSW participation and preparation • Generation Equality - Action Coalitions – Paris and UNGA • Gender Coordination • Key partners – PIFS, SPC, UN The year 2020 will mark a milestone moment for accelerating implementation of global commitments to gender equality. It will be the 25th anniversary of the Fourth World Conference on Women and the adoption of its landmark outcome, the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action (Beijing Platform for Action), a visionary agenda that set out how to remove the systemic barriers that hold women back from equal participation in all areas of life, whether in public or private.agencies, CSOs Challenges and Hope

Rose David of Wusi Village in West Coast Santo, Vanuatu stands next to her home Sunita Wati serves a customer in the new market in Rakiraki Fiji that was destroyed by Category 5 Tropical Cyclone Harold in April 2020. Vanuatu during the opening of the market on 2 June 2020 was faced with dual impact of a pandemic and tropical cyclone THANK YOU

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