Welcome
The United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM) is the women’s fund at the United Nations. UNIFEM was created in 1976 by the United Nations General Assembly as a voluntary Fund for the United Nations Decade for Women. The Fund became an organization in autonomous association with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in 1985.
With its headquarters in New York, UNIFEM works in more than 100 countries, and has 15 regional offices in Africa, Asia and the Pacific, Arab States, Latin America and the Caribbean, Central and Eastern Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States (CEE/CIS). UNIFEM works with governments and non-government organizations to support and achieve gender equality, bring more women’s voices into the development process, and increase the accountability of government to gender concerns. UNIFEM is committed to efforts towards the fulfillment of the Beijing Platform for Action; CEDAW; Millennium Development Goals; and UN Security Council Resolution 1325.
UNIFEM PACIFIC REGIONAL OFFICE
UNIFEM Pacific became a regional office in 1997 after 6 years of operating under the Regional Office for Asia, Pacific based in Bangkok, Thailand.
The Pacific Regional Office serves the Cook Islands, Federated States of Micronesia, Fiji Islands, Kiribati, Marshall Islands, Nauru, Niue, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tokelau, Tonga, Tuvalu and Vanuatu.
The UNIFEM Pacific office is headed by Regional Programme Director, Elizabeth Cox, who is assisted by programme, operations and administrative and occasional consultants, drawn as much as possible from expertise in the region.
From 2008 – 2011 UNIFEM Pacific will focus on
• Reducing the prevalence of violence and HIV
• Governance, Peace and Security
• Enhancing women’s economic and security rights
• Advancing Gender Equality in Political Governance
• Supporting Government Action on progressing Gender Equality.
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