Preventing Gender-Based Violence: Pacific Regional Ending Violence against Women Facility Fund

The very high proportion of women and children in the Pacific who face violence during their lives has prompted many Pacific island organisations to look at ways to prevent this violence. UN Women Fiji Multi-Country Office, through its Pacific Regional Ending Violence against Women Facility Fund project, supports these efforts to prevent gender-based violence. Through a regional workshop, participants examined the importance of data collection in the prevention process, in order to measure the problem and the impact of prevention efforts. The Pacific Regional Ending Violence against Women Facility Fund provides both funding and extensive technical support to funded organizations to strengthen and expand actions to end violence against women and girls in the Pacific, successfully reaching numerous rural and marginalized groups in seven countries.