Description
Fiji endures one of the world’s highest rates of gender-based violence (GBV), with two in three women experiencing physical or sexual abuse from a male intimate partner. Entrenched colonial legacies, harmful social norms, and economic inequalities fuel this crisis, normalizing the violence and silencing its survivors. Although international aid for gender-focused initiatives in Fiji surged from US$374 million pre-pandemic to US$1.2 billion in 2020–2021, we lack an understanding of how this influx shapes activist spaces. Guided by feminist political economy analysis and social movement theories, this study analyzes donor and feminist fund documents, interview discussions, and talanoa sessions—a Pacific storytelling method—among feminist and queer activists. It maps aid flows, interrogates donor metrics, and traces how competition and compliance pressures reshape activist strategies. The findings show how aid affects resource acquisition, distribution, and use, contributing to practical approaches for more equitable and sustainable movement building against GBV.
Authors
Priya Dhanani, Asher Flynn, and Jacqui True
Publication Date
2026
Publication Information
Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State & Society, jxag009
Source
https://doi.org/10.1093/sp/jxag009
Language
English
