This report reviews the factors that enable and constrain the advancement of women's political representation in the Pacific region countries. The report consists of five parts that discuss the impact of electoral systems on women's representation in Pacific parliaments and conditions necessary for women’ s political participation and representation in Nauru, Tonga, and Tuvalu.

Women into Politics Inc. is a coalition of women's organizations and individual women working to increase the numbers of women at all levels of public life and to making public institutions more representative and democratic.

This paper highlights the importance of conducting gender audits of national budgets. It describes the concept of gender audits, provides a list of questions to guide a gender audit, and examines the situation of women with respect to the economy. It also describes the efforts of various countries to conduct gender audits of their national budgets.