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Author: Nehal Chand

Senior Executive Women in Leadership Programme 2025

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.

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.

Effective Area-Based Conservation Measures (OECMs) in the Ocean

April 2024 – May 2025 |
Client: Oregon State University |
Provision of strategic guidance and recommendations on the development of a new tool aimed at identifying, understanding, and tracking the conservation outcomes of other effective (area-based) conservation measures and (OECMs) and other effectively conserved areas in the ocean beyond marine protected areas.

yher 2024 Programme

January – May 2024 |
Client: ygap |
Lead facilitator for the yher 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.

NAP Process Workshop Facilitation

April 2024 – May 2024 |
Client: IISD |
Support to the Ministry of Environment and Climate Change to commence the National Adaptation Plan process through a NAP Process workshop design and facilitation.