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UNDP Parliamentary Research Officer won Pacific Skills Scholarship

UNDP Parliamentary Research Officer, Ms Silivia ‘Atiola is amongst three recipients of a prestigious Pacific Skills Scholarship offered by Pacific Women’s Parliamentary Partnerships Projected funded by the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade.

The project has three end-of-program objectives and they are:
1) Pacific women parliamentarians including Tongans are supported in their parliamentary and representational work and are better able to use parliamentary mechanisms to raise gender equality issues;

2) Pacific Parliaments Tonga included have improved mechanisms to raise and effectively consider gender equality issues and engage their communities on those issues; and

3) Parliamentary staff have improved capacity to support the gender equality work of parliaments including Tonga.
As part of the placement, Ms. ‘Atiola is expected to:

Secondary/primary teachers’ wants follow up school visitation programme

"Uniqueness of Tonga's culture should be maintained to empower women" says Lord Fusitu'a

Lord Fusitu'a with Mr. John Hyde, Deputy Executive Director of the AFPPD

Lord Fusitu'a with the Deputy Prime Minister of Cambodia and Chairlady of CAPPD, Hon. Mrs. Men Sam An, at a reception she hosted on October 24

Lord Fusitu'a on a panel on Transforming Gender and Social Inequality

Lord Fusitu'a representing the Legislative Assembly of Tonga at the 3rd Regional Meeting of the AFPPD on the Prevention of Violence Against Women and Girls

Lord Fusitu'a again with the Deputy Prime Minister of Cambodia and Chairlady of the CAPPD, Hon. Mrs. Men Sam An

Networking with parliamentarians from the region: The Tongan delegation with the Bhutanese delegation

Group work during the sessions. Also featured is ni-Kiribati parliamentarian, the only other Pacific Island group represented at the regional meeting, Hon. Martin Tofiga

Annual meeting of the Male Standing Committee PVAWG on 26 October

Representing Tonga at the Male Standing Committee on PVAWG, Lord Fusitu'a

Sulia Makasini, accompanying official and staff of the Legislative Assembly of Tonga, whose trip was funded by the UNDP TGSP

Drafting Committee of the Siem Reap Commitment

Official photo of the AFPPD Regional Meeting on the Prevention of Violence Against Women and Girls