Andrew Jacobs Archives - The Marshall Islands Journal

Talks aim to empower women

By Journal on August 10, 2017 Amenta Matthew, Andrew Jacobs, Eliza Woolcock, FSM, Guam, Hilda Heine, Kiribati, Ladie Jack, Linda Petersen, Micronesian Women's Conference, Nauru, Palau, RMI, US territories News Archive

The Micronesian Women’s Conference opened Tuesday at the University of the South Pacific Conference Center in Majuro. Delegates from the RMI, Federated States of Micronesia (FSM), Kiribati, Nauru, Palau, and the US territories of the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands and Guam are meeting to identify opportunities and challenges to increase progress towards gender […]

One gender, one goal

By Journal on November 3, 2016 Andrew Jacobs, Angeline Heine-Reimers, Brenda Lulu Kabua, EU, European Union, Fiji, Jennifer Tseng, Malie Tarbwillin News Archive

The Marshall Islands had the only all-women delegation at last week’s European Union-sponsored training session in Fiji on managing EU funding. This was not the only notable development for the RMI at the training: RMI was recognized as the first north Pacific nation to move forward with a new funding package from the EU. “I […]