March 2025 - April 2025 | Client: FICA | Catalyzing gender inclusive leadership to address sustainable economic growth. Facilitate in advancing women's leadership within Fiji's private sector through the Senior Executive Programme by the Fiji Institute of Chartered Accountants (FICA). The initiative targetted senior women in business to build their confidence, expand their skills and knowledge of business operations and establish networks with other women in business. The initiative addressed the gender gap of women's underrepresentation at the senior executive level by strengthening the enabling environment for business to drive inclusive, private sector-led economic growth.
gender equality and women's economic empowerment
Measures that address the impacts of climate change, disasters and environmental degradation would be ineffective if they do not recognise the agency of people at risk and support them to acknowledge and apply their own knowledge and context specific solutions. The inclusion and empowerment women, youth, people with disabilities in development processes is vital to ensuring local solutions that address the needs of all.
We have undertaken the following projects in this area:
Consultancy services to provide support to the Kiwa Initiative on Gender Equity, Disability and Social Inclusion (GEDSI) and human rights-based approaches in Nature-based Solutions for climate adaptation projects
April 2023 - January 2025 | Client: SPREP | Talanoa Consulting provided support to the Kiwa Initiative on Gender Equity, Disability and Social Inclusion (GEDSI) and human rights-based approaches (HRBA) in Nature-based Solutions for climate adaptation projects. Our support includes the design and delivery of toolkits, training, facilitating a community of practice, hosting online learning events, and technical support to regional projects funded by the Kiwa Initiative. Resources can be found here: https://kiwainitiative.org/en/news/download-now-our-freely-available-resources-on-gedsi-and-humanrights
Gender Base Violence Fisheries Research Design Framework for the Pacific Sector
October 2024 - April 2025 | Client: SPC | Designed a gender-based violence (GBV) research framework for fisheries and aquaculture in the Pacific Island region for the Pacific Community and its partners. This included a desktop review of the evidence for GBV in Pacific fisheries and aquaculture, research framework and survey instruments.
Planning and moderation of a webinar to launch the Pacific Women Lead: Formative Situational Analysis
February 2025 - February 2025 | Client: DT Global | Pacific Women Lead Enabling Services is convening a series of webinars. The first webinar, proposed for February 2025, will support the launch of the Pacific Women Lead: Formative Situational Analysis and aims to spark a conversation around research methodology and credibility. Specifically, we hope to explore how donors can support processes that either amplify or hinder Pacific perspectives in research and knowledge documentation.
Capacity Building of Non-Government, Non-Profit Organisations, and Civil Society Organisations in Proposal Development
March 2024 - June 2024 | Client: The Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office| Delivery of in-person and online capacity building workshops in project concept and proposal development and drafting, including budget, monitoring, evaluation and learning plan and reporting to Pacific organisations.
yher Programme
January 2023- May 2025 | Client: ygap | Lead facilitator for the 2023, 2024 and 2025 yher / ygap sustainable tourism accelerator, supporting women-led sustainable tourism businesses to gain critical access to market intelligence, tourism networks and business advisory services to progress their businesses and grow their confidence as women entrepreneurs and change makers
Legal Sector GEDSI Analysis
May 2024 | Client: Australian Volunteers International | Talanoa Consulting provided a high level GEDSI Analysis of the legal sector in the Pacific Context and provided a recommendation on how to incorporate GEDSI considerations in the program's next phase. Assisted the Collaborative to complete the CSSF GESI marker self assessment tool.
Barriers and opportunities to women’s economic empowerment and paid work in Fiji
July - September 2023 | Client: The World Bank | Supported the World Bank to undertake a qualitative study in Fiji that explores constraints to women’s access to paid employment in and opportunities for women’s greater access to work opportunities. Key informant interviews and focus group discussions were undertaken on Vanua Levu in vosavakaviti and Fiji baat through a team of five social researchers.
Institutional Barriers to Climate Finance through a Gendered Lens in Fiji, Samoa and Solomon Islands
January - December 2022 | Client: The Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research / Queensland University of Technology | Supported civil society organisations in Fiji, Samoa and the Solomon Islands to research gendered-barriers to climate finance
PHAMA Plus: Root Crops GEDSI Analysis
June 2021 to July 2021 | Client: DT Global |
Pacific Sporting Partnerships: mid-term review
October 2020 to February 2021 | Client: IOD PARC (MFAT / NZ Rugby / Netball NZ) |
Address Gender Aspects of the SOPs for Fiji’s Planned Relocation Guidelines
August 2020 to October 2020 | Client: GIZ |
Development of Gender and Organic Value Chain Assessment Training Module and Delivery of Training of Trainers Workshop
July 2020 to September 2020 | Client: The Pacific Community (SPC) |
Women’s resilience to disasters and climate change
November 2019 – May 2020. Consultant to assist in facilitating consultations in Kiribati, Vanuatu, Marshall Islands for the Women’s Resilience to Disasters Programme. Client: UN Women
Gender and Agricultural Value Chains
In progress Review of existing literature on entry points for strengthening gender and social inclusion within agricultural value chains in the Pacific Client: SPC, Suva
Human mobility in the context of climate change
August- September, 2019 Review and finalisation of gender and human mobility research, and development of a toolkit module Client: Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ)
Women’s Resilience to Disaster and Climate Change
In progress Leading the consultations and programme design for a UN Women programme on Women’s Resilience to Disasters and Climate Change Client: UN Women, Suva
Project management training delivery
March 1, 2019 Period: March 2019 - June 2019 Capacity building training in project management and resource mobilisation for grantees of the Fiji Women’s Fund. Client: Fiji Women’s Fund, Suva