Apia Office Cluster Office for the Pacific States

2018  International           

  Women's   Day 

Supporting Rural Women’s social and economic empowerment

and active participation in political and public life

Typically, the most extreme forms of discrimination

tend to be experienced by girls and women living in

rural areas, in urban peripheries and in slums, within

low-income countries.

Apia Office Cluster Office for the Pacific States

2018 International Women's Day 

— UNESCO Priority Gender Equality Action Plan for 2014-2021 (GEAP II)

Let’s support

rural women activists

and mobilize men to

change the reality.

Apia Office Cluster Office for the Pacific States

2018 International Women's Day Photo: Consultation Group

for education data quality

assessment in Tuvalu

© UNESCO APIA

© UNESCO/School of Media and Journalism-National University of Samoa Photo: Sharon Bhagwan Rolls ©The Pacific CommunityPhoto: Charlene Mersai © Charlene MersaiPhoto: Evelyn Ikelau Otto © Evelyn Ikelau Otto Photo: Fani Bruun © Charles Netzler

Photo: Ioana Chan Mow © Pan Commonwealth Forum 5

Photo: Pamela Maru © The Forum Fishery Agency Photo: Sally Warring © Sally Warring Photo: Sally Hosking Naea © Jahz PhotographyPhoto: Myjolynne Kim © UNESCO Apia

Constrained by persistent gender discrimination, Pacific rural women

tend to have unequal access to land, which is frequently held

communally in ways that do not always provide women with adequate

decision-making powers even when they perform the vast majority of

agricultural work.

FACT:

WHAT WE DO: 

We support the role of women as custodians of intangible cultural

heritage and traditional knowledge particularly within local cultural

contexts, to support sustainable development in agriculture for the

enhancement of their communities.

— “Rural Pacific Women and Agriculture”, UN Women, 2012

2018 International Women's Day 

Apia Office Cluster Office for the Pacific States

2018  International           

  Women's   Day 

Let’s journey with Pacific rural

women leaders to highlight and make visible

women’s role as custodians of intangible

cultural heritage and traditional knowledge.