Join the PSGDN team at the historic Oceanic Pacific Women Deliver Conference in Melbourne, Australia (April 27-30). Bringing together 6,500+ advocates, the conference spotlights feminist leadership across the region. PSGN will feature in panels and side events, highlighting key challenges facing our community.
#WD2026 #YourVoice #PacificRepresent #SOGIESC+ #HerStory
Lusiana (wearing black) is a single mum, grandmother, and proud diverse woman working in the male-dominated construction industry in Fiji. She has also worked as a taxi driver. Together with her family, she is breaking barriers and challenging stereotypes. This #IWD, Lusiana is calling on everyone to do the same — be brave, stand tall, and create space for others.
#InternationalWomensDay2026 #DiverseWoman #Pride #PacificWomen SOGIESC+
PIDSOGIESC+ Collective Regional Wellbeing Survey
Pacific Sexual and Gender Diversity Network Acting CEO Loata Tucika says the findings from the PIDSOGIESC+ Collective Regional Wellbeing Survey provide essential baseline evidence to inform advocacy and action across the Pacific.
“This online survey, conducted across 14 PSGDN member countries with 33 PIDSOGIESC+ respondents, captures critical baseline data on wellbeing, safety, and experiences of discrimination across our region,” Ms Tucika said.
“The data is significant because it is grounded in lived experience. While many participants reported generally positive wellbeing, the survey also clearly shows how widespread discrimination continues to shape daily life, safety and mental wellbeing.
“This evidence strengthens our ability to advocate for inclusive policies, targeted programming and culturally grounded responses that reflect the realities of PIDSOGIESC+ communities across the Pacific.”
The Webs of Safety and Care Baseline Survey serves as the programme’s foundational exercise, offering early insight into how PIDSOGIESC+ individuals experience wellbeing, safety, access to care, discrimination and collective care practices across selected Pacific contexts.
The survey was conducted online from 23 October 2025 to 28 January 2026, with responses collected through a self-administered tool shared via regional networks.
While the data is not intended to represent entire national populations, it provides deep and meaningful insights into the realities of those who chose to share their voices — helping guide programme direction, advocacy priorities and future interventions.
Strengthening Partnerships for Disability Inclusion
We were thrilled to meet with Isoa Nabainivalu from the
Disability Pride Hub (DPH), one of our National Member Organisations in Fiji.
As DPH’s fiscal partner for funding from the
Disability Rights Fund (DRF), we are proud to support their incredible work. Together, we are strengthening the inclusion of members across the Pacific who are persons with disabilities, particularly those from diverse SOGIESC communities.
A heartfelt thank you to Disability Pride Hub for the trust and partnership — we look forward to continuing this important work and creating lasting impact together.
#DisabilityInclusion #PacificCommunity #SOGIESC #Partnership #DisabilityRights InclusiveDevelopment
We’re delivering.
Across the Pacific, PSGDN is proud to work alongside our National Member Organisations—supporting their leadership, amplifying their voices, and strengthening their impact.
These success stories reflect the real change our partners are driving in their communities, creating safer, more inclusive spaces within their respective countries and across the region.
Raising Pacific PIDSOGIESC+ voices
In the months ahead, PSGDN will share key findings from its new research report, The Lived Experiences of PIDSOGIESC+ Communities — developed with the University of Sydney and the University of the South Pacific.
This Pacific-wide research amplifies the voices of PIDSOGIESC+ people who too often go unheard. Speaking up can come at a personal cost, and the stories shared reflect courage, vulnerability, and resilience.
The findings are clear: PIDSOGIESC+ communities across the Pacific continue to face stigma, discrimination, violence, and exclusion. Yet they also demonstrate extraordinary strength, leadership, and determination.
PIDSOGIESC+ people are not just surviving — they are shaping safer, more inclusive futures for their communities and the Pacific region as a whole.
From the Board, Management, and Staff of PSGDN, we wish you a RAINBOW Christmas filled with PRIDE, LOVE, and JOY and a prosperous 2026. May you enjoy the holiday season with your loved ones and be safe.
Maria Nailevu, Program Manager, @pacificsgdnetwork shares why this MOU between PSGDN and @ippf_srop is important for both PSGDN and the communities they serve? 💬
"Our challenges are getting the members because the older generation doesn't see it as beneficial for them. Another challenge is getting younger members to stay in school. They face bullying and discrimination so they drop out...We come to the conference to exchange ideas, engage with partners, and seek support from PSGDN and donors to get the right information and projects going for our community," Semi Malachi is President of the Akanda Alliance in Tuvalu established in 2019.
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During the #PHRC2024 on #SOGIESC Adi Finau Tabakaucoro, a retired politician, currently the President of Fiji’s largest women’s civil society organization, Soqosoqo Vakamarama i Viti spoke about the need to affirm our commitment to trans and gender diverse NGOs for lasting and effective change in communities. #transgenderrights #equality @phrcsogiesc
"Discrimination and bias prejudice never goes away, as well as support for rainbow disability particularly for trans women. A number of things are still lacking in service provision, and to look at the grounds of discrimination based on sex because currently it's not clearly defined in the New Zealand Human Rights Act of 1993," Phylesha Brown-Acton spoke of the challenges that are faced by the gender diverse community in New Zealand. She is a LGBTQ+ rights activist and Executive Director of F’ine Pasifika, an LGBTQI+ organization based in New Zealand, which she co-founded in 2015. #phrc2024
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