Partners Improving Marketplaces Project: Piloting New Initiatives for “Empowerment of Women Vendors and Engendering Market Management in Melanesia”
The Foundation for Development Cooperation (FDC) has recently been contracted to undertake the second phase of UNIFEM Pacific’s Partnerships to Improve Markets project in Fiji, which will run from January to May 2010. This project seeks to improve the social, economic and physical conditions of women market vendors and to encourage local governments and other bodies tasked with managing markets to adopt a gender responsive approach to marketplace planning, operations and governance. More…