Women's resilience in Fiji: How laws and policies promote gender equality in climate change and disaster risk management

This report aims to conduct a gender analysis of the national legal and policy frameworks of Fiji to explore how much gender considerations are integrated in its climate change and disaster risk management (CCDRM) laws, policies, and plans and how they contribute to strengthening women’s resilience in the country. It serves as part of a series of publications that applies the National Good Practice Framework in relation to country policies. It was prepared under a regional knowledge and support technical assistance project on Strengthening Women’s Resilience to Climate Change and Disaster Risk in Asia and the Pacific.

This report finds that Fiji has taken significant strides to improve its institutional and policy framework aimed at accelerating the elimination of discrimination against all women and children and promoting gender equality. However, there is further work to be done to ensure that some of the institutions that have been set up—and the policies related to gender and the implementation of the various laws—are truly having the effect intended by the government.