As part of our work as the Monitoring, Evaluation, Research and Learning partner for the Australia Awards Women Leading and Influencing (WLI) program CHSSC staff have documented the experiences of eight WLI alumni who are exercising leadership in their communities and professional lives.
The series captures how they have combined their qualifications with experience gained through the program to lead positive change across industries ranging from sustainable development and IT to diplomacy and international trade. It unpacks the ways alumni have used their skills, knowledge and networks, and what they have learned about leadership and about themselves along the way.
Led by CHSSC Senior Research Fellow Elisabeth Jackson together with Serena Ford, Sara Phillips, and WLI Program Manager Lorissa Hazelman, the series responds to requests from WLI participants and alumni who want to see real examples of women’s leadership in the Pacific ‘in action’, to help them translate what they have learned through the program into practice.
Get to know Atenasi Ata (Solomon Islands), Dorothy Jolly (PNG), Dr Ese Apinelu (Tuvalu), Greta Harris (Nauru), K. Hehea Tukuafu-Vaioleti (Tonga), Janice Ashwin (Solomon Islands), Jocelyn Loughman (Vanuatu), and Luanne Isikel (PNG) as they unpack their journeys of leading and influencing positive change in the Pacific.
Read their stories
