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Job Vacancy – Pacific Regional Representative

After exemplary performance since opening the FDC Pacific office two years ago, Ms Luse Kinivuwai is completing her service as FDC Pacific Regional Representative at the end of November, 2010. Applications for the position of FDC Pacific Regional Representative are invited by 20 September. Please see attached.

Asia Microfinance Forum 2010

Preparations for the BWTP Asia Microfinance Forum 2010 in Colombo, Sri Lanka, from 12 to 15 October 2010 are in full swing. To register and for more details go to asiamicrofinanceforum.org.

Update on FDC facilitation role for Energy for All Partnership

The Energy for All Partnership (E4ALL) leadership and secretariat function, provided to date by FDC, will be transferred to another organisation from August. The Asian Development Bank (ADB) will assume core responsibility for the E4ALL Partnership’s continued success and the ongoing leadership of the Steering Committee. The recent E4ALL Steering Committee meeting in June 2010 concluded that the E4ALL Partnership is well placed to continue its progress toward its goal of 100 million people in the Asia-Pacific region obtaining increased access to modern energy services by 2015, building on the 6 million achieved during its first year of activities. The E4ALL Partnership will continue to provide an important framework to promote scaled-up access to modern energy services for the poor in the Asia-Pacific region.

Briefing Note 11 – Governance and Leadership in the Pacific: Options to Increase Female Participation

Despite a large amount of funding and numerous programs dedicated to improving governance in the Pacific region, the female parliamentary participation rate within the Pacific currently stands at 4.2% – the lowest in the world. Between the years of 1995-2008, Arab states (female participation rate 8.8%) and Sub-Saharan African states (female participation rate 18.6%) increased their female parliamentary participation rates by 5.3 per cent and 7.5 per cent respectively, while Pacific participation rates increased by just 1.7 per cent. Addressing the issue of low female parliamentary participation is a complex task, and should involve a multi-layered approach. This briefing note examines: the implications of a lack of commitment to the Convention on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) in the Pacific region; the introduction of temporary special measures; the importance of support networks; and, the need for male champions to help increase female participation. There have also been some positive trends in female local government participation, which has encouraging implications for efforts to improve women’s national participation rates. Click here to read more.

FDC FY09 Consolidated Annual Report

FDC is pleased to release its consolidated FY09 annual report. It is accessible (here). FDC Singapore and Pacific annual reports are also available here.

July AARTG

For the latest July AARTG please visit here.

Partners Improving Marketplaces Project

FDC recently held a training session for women market vendors in Suva, Fiji as part of the UNIFEM funded Partner’s Improving Marketplaces Project. FDC project manager Carly Stephan, and Pacific Regional Representative Luse Kinivuwai trained women from Suva, Nausori and Sigatoka markets in team building and how to form associations. It is hoped that as a result of this training, the participants will go on to form their own women market vendors associations and that women’s issues in these respective marketplaces will gain a higher profile and lead to improvements. Here are some photos from the training. More photos from the training session can be found here.