International Workshop:

Gender, Youth and Economic Empowerment in the Pacific

A partnership between the Australian Agency for International Development and Learning Oceania, College of Asia and the Pacific at the Australian National University (ANU).

On 16-17 April 2008 AusAID and Learning Oceania at the ANU hosted a workshop on the gender and youth dimensions of economic development in the Pacific.

Key issues addressed during the workshop were:

The role of culture in Pacific Economic Development;
Gender and Employment;
Youth, Technology and Globalisation;
Gender in Economic Policy and Programming;
Women in Enterprise and female entrepreneurship;
Gender, Youth and Land;
Labour Mobility and Remittances; and
Gender and Youth Participation in National Decision making.

Workshop presentations and materials are available online [external link].

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