Fiji Women's Crisis Centre — Pacific-Wide Community Mobilisation and Male Advocacy Against Gender-Based Violence

Founded in Suva in 1984 by a small group of women, the Fiji Women's Crisis Centre (FWCC) pairs counselling, legal and medical support for survivors with a Community Education Programme that FWCC estimates reaches 10,000–15,000 women, men and children a year through village-level workshops, forums and training for government agencies.
Since 2000, FWCC has run a dedicated Male Advocacy strand that trains men from the police, military, chiefs and religious leaders as allies against gender-based violence, extending the model's reach beyond women-only outreach into institutions that shape community norms.
FWCC has run a four-week regional training on gender-based violence twice a year since 1995, which the Australian National University's Development Policy Centre reports has trained more than 1,000 participants from 15 Pacific countries, making FWCC's community-mobilisation model one of the region's most widely replicated approaches.
Australia's DFAT, FWCC's largest institutional donor since 1994 (about AUD 1–1.5 million a year), commissioned independent evaluations that documented 32 positive legislative and policy changes across Fiji and the region between 2009 and 2015 and evidence of declining acceptability of violence among women surveyed, alongside a 2013 national prevalence study still finding 61% lifetime physical-assault prevalence among Fijian women — a reminder that community mobilisation shifts norms gradually and does not by itself resolve high baseline prevalence.

Read the full analysis: https://www.fijiwomen.com/