Mereseini Rakuita Vuniwaqa (born 18 June 1974) is a Fijian politician, who served as the Minister for Women, Children and Poverty Alleviation from 2016 until her resignation from the Fiji First Party in 2021.

In 2019, she was elected to chair the Asia-Pacific Ministerial Conference on the Beijing+25 Review where over 500 Ministers, senior policy makers, UN officials, civil society, youth, and private sector representatives from across Asia and the Pacific region gathered at UNESCAP in Bangkok to support accelerated progress on gender equality and women's empowerment.

[11] This was instigated following the adoption of the United Nations General Assembly resolution on Global Geodetic Reference Frame for Sustainable Development in February 2015 which was led by the Republic of Fiji.

[12] In a Cabinet reshuffle in September 2016, Vuniwaqa was appointed as the Minister for Women, Children and Poverty Alleviation, a portfolio that she continues to hold since her re-election in 2018.

In this position, Vuniwaqa has introduced and rolled out a number of strategic and key reforms with an unprecedented whole of government spotlight on advancing gender equality as well as strengthening the Fijian social protection delivery system and the relevant policy setting which attracted significant international assistance.

"The initiative focusses on the development of interagency, multi-sectoral national Standard Operating Procedures for response, referral and coordination of gender-based violence (GBV) services.

[15] The Gender Transformative Institutional Capacity Development initiative aims to create an enabling environment to ensure integration of all women and girls' needs, interests, concerns, contributions and perspectives into policies, strategies, programs and budgets with the establishment of effective coordination mechanisms as well as enhancing technical knowledge, competence and resources on transformative gender mainstreaming across government institutions.