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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222">Pacific Friends, <br>
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<b>The Pacific Leaders Gender Equality Declaration (PLGED) was adopted at the 43rd Pacific Islands Forum in August 2012 in Rarotonga, Cook Islands as a result of the concerns of Pacific Leaders that overall progress in the region toward gender equality was
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222">The PLGED renewed commitment to lifting the status of women in the Pacific and empowering them to be active participants in economic, political, and social life. </span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222">The Declaration may be viewed here:</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222"><br>
</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"><a href="https://www.forumsec.org/2012/08/30/pacific-leaders-gender-equality-declaration/" target="_blank">https://www.forumsec.org/2012/08/30/pacific-leaders-gender-equality-declaration/</a></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222"><br>
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<b>To progress these commitments, Leaders committed to implement specific national policy actions to progress gender equality in the areas of :</b></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222">i) gender-responsive government programs and policies, </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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iii) economic empowerment, </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222">v) and health and education. </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222">While there has been some good progress, including regional and national policies, resources, and national commitment, much more remains to be done to progress
gender equality. As a result, a review of the PLGED is timely.<br>
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<b>The review of the PLGED </b>is an opportunity for the Pacific to take<br>
stronger actions and efforts to address gender inequalities, explore<br>
options to strengthen regional consensus to support national efforts<br>
and provide a platform for coordinating regional cooperation.</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#500050"><br>
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<b><span style="background:yellow">Your views will help shape action and next steps for the Declaration,so let us know what's working, what isn't, and what's missing at:</span></b><span style="background:yellow"><br>
<a href="https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/R6NZGQF" target="_blank">https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/R6NZGQF</a></span><br>
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<b>SHARE THIS POST and HAVE YOUR SAY.</b><br>
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</span><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222">If you have any questions or would like to speak to the review team </span></b><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#500050">directly, please
contact: Linda Petersen, PLGED review team leader</span></b><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> <span style="color:#500050">at: <a href="mailto:lindapetersen2015@gmail.com" target="_blank">lindapetersen2015@gmail.com</a></span></span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#500050"><br>
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<b>The review can only benefit from as many of your views as possible</b>.</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><br clear="all">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#500050">===</span></u></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Noelene Nabulivou, Fiji </span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Skype: 'noelene.nabulivou2''</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">General Email: </span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><a href="mailto:noelenen@gmail.com" target="_blank"><span style="color:#1155CC">noelenen@gmail.com</span></a></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">*Outgoing Political Adviser/Special Projects, DIVA for Equality</span></b><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">*Convenor, Women Defending the Commons coalition</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">*Convenor, Fiji Grassroots Feminists coalition</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">*<a href="http://www.fwrm.org.fj/index.php/news/media-releases/2013/292-re-framing-re-articulating-and-re-energizing-srhr-in-the-pacific" target="_blank"><span style="color:#1155CC">Pacific
Feminist SRHR Coalition, Co-convenor /Secretariat</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">*<a href="https://www.facebook.com/PPGCCSD" target="_blank"><span style="color:#1155CC">Pacific Partnerships to Strengthen Gender, Climate Change Response and Sustainable Development,
(PPGCCSD) - Convenor</span></a> </span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">*<a href="http://www.undp.org/content/undp/en/home/partners/civil_society_organizations/advisorycommittee.html" target="_blank"><span style="color:#1155CC">Global Civil Society
Advisory Committee (CSAC) to UNDP</span></a></span></i><i><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">*<a href="https://www.astraeafoundation.org/about-us/our-team/#filter=.advisors" target="_blank"><span style="color:#1155CC">Astraea Lesbian Foundation for Justice, International
Adviser</span></a></span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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