Pacific Feminist Fund

08/06/2026

🌺 Please join us in welcoming Ashilta Prasad as PFF's new Data Enabler!

With a background spanning KPMG, Habitat for Humanity Fiji, and DHL, Ashilta brings deep expertise in software engineering and digital transformation - and a clear conviction that data should serve communities, not just institutions. She'll be building systems that help our grantee partners tell their own stories, strengthening PFF's data infrastructure, and making feminist data practice a shared skill across the team.

We're thrilled to have you Ashilta. Welcome to the team! 💜

02/06/2026

The AIR Partnership is entering a new chapter.

The Australian Minister for International Development, Anne Aly, recently announced at the High-Level Parliamentary Forum on SRHR on April 27, 2026, in Melbourne, Australia, the continuation and expansion of the Accelerating Investment in Women’s Rights (AIR) Partnership. This initiative by DFAT and four women’s funds—Pacific Feminist Fund, Urgent Action Fund, Asia and Pacific, Women's Fund Asia, and Women's Fund Fiji - is designed to increase resources for women’s rights organisations and human rights actors, and to advocate for stronger investments in gender equality across Asia and the Pacific

The announcement was later echoed by Ambassador for Gender Equality Michelle O’Byrne at the “Steadfast: Donors Standing with Indo-Pacific Movements” reception, held on the final day of the Women Deliver Conference.
A month after , we have signed agreements for the coming four years and continue to reflect on and revel in the power of genuine partnerships, collective action, and sustained investment in movements and locally led development.

📸 Swipe through some of our favorite moments from AIR at , capturing how the partnership showed up across plenaries, 🙌a concurrent session, and curated conversations—the kind of collective energy we are bringing into the next phase.

31/05/2026

The Pacific Feminist Fund welcomes Asenaca Blake to our PFF team as our Learning & Accountability Enabler in the Learning & Accountability Unit 👏

Based in Tarawa, Kiribati, Asenaca offers to centre her work using her lived understanding of climate vulnerability in the urgency of connecting Pacific communities to information and resources. She brings with her, a wealth of experience in Monitoring & Evaluation (MEL) in diverse contexts and we're excited to see how we shape our organizational Learning with Asenaca now on board. Welcome to the team Asenaca 💜

15/05/2026

From Fiji's ‘solesolevaki’ to Samoa's ‘fa'alavelave’ - Pacific cultures have always known that sharing is not charity, it is kinship. 🤝

The Pacific Feminist Fund (PFF) carries this ethic into every funder room, every coalition, every negotiation. In a world seeing rising authoritarianism and anti-rights movements, PFF's AIR Partnership, ResourceFULL Collective, and the Equality Collaboration are load-bearing stones. Pacific LGBTQIA+ movements chose PFF as their funder of choice, not by accident, but because trust, built over decades of feminist friendship, holds.
Learn more: https://pacfemfund.org/publications/ 👈
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11/05/2026

We're proud to have participated in this sharing and learning session via our Grants Enabler, Sereima, who joined feminist-fund collaborators in sharing critical perspectives on movement resilience, anti-rights backlash and sustainable feminist financing at the “Convening Feminist Mobilization for Advancing Women’s Health, SRHR & GBV” pre-conference at Women Deliver.

11/05/2026

NZD $1,827,317million - placed with intention across 12 countries and territories, through 30 grants, in the hands of Pacific feminists who know their communities best. 💛 Our grant names - Tausiga, Fotuki, Nuanua, Sinangan, Mauri - are not just labels. They are living languages. They carry ancestral ‘mana’.

At a time when flexible feminist funding remains rare in the Northern Pacific, PFF is setting stones where others haven't dared to stand. This is feminist grant-making as an act of love and solidarity. 🌏

Read more: https://pacfemfund.org/publications/ 👈

09/05/2026

Across our vast Pacific Ocean, nurturing has always been one of the quiet forces that keeps our families, communities and futures alive. Today, the Pacific Feminist Fund (PFF) honours mothers across the region, whose love, sacrifice, wisdom and labour continue to hold together homes, villages and generations, often in ways unseen and uncelebrated. 🌺

We also celebrate grandmothers, aunties, sisters, fathers, older siblings, guardians and all nurturing hearts who step forward with care in the absence of mother figures. Across our region, family has never belonged to one person alone. It is woven collectively, like mats braided strand by strand, through shared responsibility, compassion and presence.

Nurturing is a core PFF feminist value. It is the radical act of choosing care in a world that too often rewards harshness. It is feeding, protecting, teaching, listening, comforting and believing in one another. These acts shape healthier families, stronger communities and more just societies. They remind us that love is not weakness. Care is not secondary work. Nurturing sustains livelihoods, strengthens resilience and helps entire communities flourish.

To every nurturing heart across the Pacific: we see you, we honour you, and we thank you.

Happy Mother’s Day, with love and solidarity from the team at Pacific Feminist Fund. 💜

09/05/2026

What does feminist leadership look like in the Pacific?
It looks like co-leadership — two women, two islands, two leadership journeys woven together. ✊🏽
PFF's pioneering feminist co-leadership model, held together by care, the STAGED methodology and collective wisdom, is proof that power shared is power multiplied. Knowledge lives in hands that weave, voices that chant and relationships that hold communities together. This is Pacific feminist expertise - not defined by credentials, but by lived truth.

Read more here: https://pacfemfund.org/publications/ 👈 🌺

07/05/2026

Across the Pacific, stones hold the marks of time, pressure, and endurance - and so does our movement. 🪨 Our new Learning Report, ‘Stones that Shape Us’, invites you to trace the slow, deliberate contours of feminist change: layered, rooted, and powerful. Just as water shapes stone over generations, Pacific feminist activism reshapes the foundations of inequality - not in a rush, but with steady, ancestral purpose. Read our story. Feel the weight. Trust the process. 🌊
Read it here: https://pacfemfund.org/publications/ 👈

Report design by Veshalini Naidu
Creative Direction by Tavai Baleinayavutoka

29/04/2026

"Movements don't need to be directed. They need to be trusted and resourced."

‘Too often, funding shapes movements more than movements shape funding.’ This hard truth, surfaced by Pacific feminist researcher Ofa Guttenbeil-Likiliki in 2021, continues to define the reality for many feminist organisations today. For decades, movements …