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Women, Development and Empowerment: A Pacific Feminist Perspective

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CONTENTS

Acknowledgements
Editor's Note
INTRODUCTION TO PACIFIC WORKSHOP:
Women, Development & Empowerment i
DAY 1
DEVELOPING A FEMINIST PERSPECTIVE 1
OPENING SESSION ON FEMINISM 1
     Negative and Positive Attitudes to Feminism 19
     Cultural and Traditional Practices and Women's Status in the Pacific 22
WOMEN'S PROJECTS AND PROGRAMMES: CASE STUDIES 29
     Primary Health and the National Women's Federation in Kiribati
     Kairabu Betaia
30
     A YWCA Kindergarten in the Solomon Islands
     Jully Makini
34
     A Women's Crisis Centre in Suva, Fiji
     Shamima Ali
37
     Establishing a National Machinery for Women's Development
     in Papua New Guinea
       Fungke Samana
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     Women's Organisations in Guam
     Laura Souder-Jaffery
51
     Women's Participation in a Subsistence Agriculture Improvement
     Programme, Morobe Province, Papua New Guinea
     Fungke Samana
61
DAY 2
WOMEN AND DEVELOPMENT: A CRITICAL EXAMINATION 67
     Introduction
     Claire Slatter
67
     Pacific Development Strategies
     Hilda Lini
68
     PROJECTS AS STRATEGIES FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF WOMEN 77
     Critical Appraisal of the Idea of Using Projects as Strategies for the Advancement of Women
     Noeleen Heyzer
77
     Summary of Workshop Discussion on Projects 84
     Projects - Tokelau Islands, Kiribati, Cook Islands
     Mesapa [sic: Mesepa]Atoni, Kairabu Betaia, Vereara Maeva
85
     Alternative Approaches to Development in Kanaky
     Dewe Gorodey Pourouin
89
     Women, Development and Feminism: Some Criteria
     Amelia Rokotuivuna
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DAY 3
DEFINING PACIFIC FEMINISM 97
     Introduction
     Laura Souder-Jaffery
97
     Defining Pacific Feminism – Workshop Discussion 102
     Our Vision – Workshop Statement 111
DAY 4
WOMEN, DEVELOPMENT AND EMPOWERMENT: STRATEGIES 117
     Advancing Pacific Feminism to Empower Women
     Vanessa Griffen
117
     Strategies – Advancing Pacific Feminism 130
APPENDIX 1 Evaluation 133
APPENDIX 2 Participants and addresses 138