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Women's Participation in Politics and Decision-Making in Ukraine. Strategy Paper
Ukrainian Women’s Fund is pleased to present the Strategy paper Women's Participation in Politics and Decision-Making in Ukraine (in English and Ukrainian language) prepared with financial support of the Joint EC-OSCE/ODIHR Project to Promote Democratisation and Human Rights in Eastern Europe.
This paper was drafted on the basis of sociological studies, statistical data, and findings of domestic and international research, for the purposes of identifying appropriate strategies to promote gender equality in the political life and decision-making in Ukraine.
This comprehensive overview analyses the particular problems and issues of women’s participation in politics and decision-making in Ukraine and also sets out the main directions for improvement, based on international and European standards and good practices. The document is addressed to and can be useful for national legislators, policy makers and advocates, as well as international partners and donors.
This paper was prepared by the Ukrainian Women’s Fund and funded by the Joint EC-OSCE/ODIHR Project to Promote Democratisation and Human Rights in Eastern Europe. The views expressed in this document are the views of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR), its staff or the OSCE participating States mentioned. Ukrainian Women’s Fund expresses its gratitude to Larysa Kobelyanska, Olena Suslova, Olena Yena and Iryna Skorbun for their valuable contributions to this paper as well as to the OSCE/ODIHR Gender Team for their comments and editing.
The paper has been posted on ODIHR Website
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Meeting of 2011 First Step to Success winners took place in Kyiv
on June 25-26 
On June 25-26 Kyiv welcomed active purposeful girls from different corners of Ukraine. They were participants of First Step to Success program, who became winners in the contest of ideas on improving lives of their local communities. The girls worry about problems of orphans, pollution, healthy life style, patriotic educations and development of modern youth culture; they have concrete plans how to influence solution of these problems.
«I shall never forget these two days I spent in Kyiv. It was really the first and maybe the most important step....step to success. During the trainings I got knew knowledge, communication with successful women gave me inspiration, as after listening to their stories of way to success I had a kind of inside confidence, feeling that it is possible to reach the top – one just needs to make efforts. It was extremely pleasant to meet and communicate with girls who are not indifferent to other people’s problems, problems of their communities, cities and their country. I am 100% sure that all these were not in vain, as this program gives opportunity for common girls from all regions of Ukraine to implement their projects and make their first steps to success» (Yurieva Sabina, Mariupol) |
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MEETING OF THE UWF GRANTEES
Meewith ting organizations – winners of the UWF’ s grant competition took place on June 24, 2011.
On the whole within this competition the Fund supported projects by the following priorities:
· Women in politics is a way to changes
· Visualizing the issues of women’s rights and interests
· Consolidating efforts of women’s organizations
The meeting’s agenda included the following stages:
- presentation of the Fund’s staff about different directions of work, the Fund’s programs, their goals, peculiarities, how they are connected with each other, and how women’s organizations can make use of these programs;
- informing about the procedures of drawing and submitting reports to the UWF during and after the project realization, providing information about the project;
- participants’ presentations of their organizations and the projects supported;
- signing agreements on charitable grants.
The following projects were supported as a result of the grant competition
Within the priority "Women in Politics is a Way to Changes"
Protecting and promoting rights of young women who belong to national."Equality" National Institute of Women of
Moldova
Increasing the role of women in social and political life of local communities. "Viktoria" Starobylsk raion non-governmental human rights women’s organization
Women-leaders for gender sensitive budget!"KOLO"
Kirovohrad
Regional
Youth
Gender
Center
Organizing Women’s Studies for Effective Deputies in
Kherson
region.Kherson
Regional Organization of Mothers of Soldiers of
Ukraine
Code of positive practices in politics for women. "Institute of Democracy and Social Processes" All-Ukrainian Non-governmental organization
Within the priority"Visualizing the issues of women's rights and interests"
Shoulder to shoulder.Kredo Information and
Education
Center
Fifth International Conference "Women in Science and Education: Past, Present, Future". "Women in Science" non-governmental organization
Contest of art works on gender equality "Women’s issues. A way out". "Common Cause" non-governmental organization
Face of feminism. Institute Rada
People’s Square. "Holubka" Women’s Club, Public association
Prevention of domestic violence against women by means of social and cultural activities. Belarus Association of Young Christian Women, Public association
Gender Education for Youth. "Province" Borisov Women’s Public Association
Within the priority"Consolidating efforts of women's organizations"
Creating International NGO Network "Gender Strategic Platform".Women’s Information Consultative Center
Promoting gender content in Ukrainian network space. Kyiv Institute of Gender Studies
Women unite efforts on the way to Forum in Busan. Liberal Society Institute, Kyiv City NGO
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Ukrainian voters strive to better involvement of women in politics and power, and they could achieve it, if men and household chores don’t prevent.
Such conclusions can be made of the survey conducted by Ukrainian Women’s Fund together with Democratic Initiative Foundation on the eve of local elections. |
Representative office of Heinrich Boelle Foundation in Ukraine, NGO "Insight" and Ukrainian Women's Fund are glad to invite you for participation in the public podium discussion |
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All-Ukrainian Conference of women’s organizations "Ukrainian Women’s Movement: Myth or reality?...".
On June22, 2010 Ukrainian Women’s Fund conducts in Kyiv the All-Ukrainian Conference of women’s organizations “Ukrainian Women’s Movement: Myth or reality?...”.
We are planning that the conference would bring together more than 100 women’s organizations of
Ukraine,
which will have opportunity to analyze the contemporary situation of women’s movement in
Ukraine
, its gains and challenges, define perspectives for activity and development.
Preparing for the conference Ukrainian Women’s Fund has already conducted the survey of contemporary situation of women’s movement, and the survey’s results will be generalized, presented and discussed during the conference.
Ambassador-at-Large for Global Women’s Issues, Ambassador Melanne Verveer, representatives of international organizations, embassies, charitable foundations working in
Ukraine
have already confirmed their participation in the conference.
The conference is carried out with the financial support of OAK Foundation
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Gender Arithmetics of Power
Ukrainian Women’s Fund with the support of Parliamentary Development Project ²² published a renewed version of the brochure “Gender Arithmetics of Power”.
The brochure represents statistical data on percentage ration of women and men in modern Ukrainian power(information is given as of March 25, 2010), and particularly among:
· People’s Deputies of Ukraine;
· the Committee Chairs of the VR of
Ukraine
;
· the leaders of VR of Ukraine, which are the Chairman and Deputy Chairmen of VR of Ukraine;
· Advisors to the President of
Ukraine;
· the Cabinet of Ministers of
Ukraine
;
· Heads of the
Oblast
State
Administrations;
· Deputies of Oblast Councils;
· Deputies of Rayon Councils;
· Deputies of City Councils;
· High ranking civil servants (1st and 2nd categories).
On April 9 the brochure was presented during the meeting of the National press-club“Ukrainian Perspective”.
Everybody, who is interested to get this publication(in Ukrainian), can come o the office of Ukrainian Women’s Fund, to Iryna Stratiy, tel. (044) 568-53-89 or send a request to e-mail info@uwf.kiev.ua.
Analysis of contemporary situation, gains, challenges and perspectives of women’s movement in Ukraine
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ICF “Ukrainian Women’s Fund” offers women’s organizations to take part in preparation for the All-Ukrainian Conference of Women’s Organizations, which is planned for May-June 2010.
To analyze the contemporary situation, gains, challenges and perspectives for development of women’s movement in
Ukraine
we ask women’s CSOs to answer the questionnaire and send it to the UWF till April 20.
50 organizations that are the first to send the filled questionnaire will receive invitation to participate in the conference with coverage of all expenses.
Your opinion is very important for us. Thank you in advance for cooperation and support of this initiative!
Filled questionnaires and questions (if any) should be send to uwf@uwf.kiev.ua
Conducting the questionnaire and conference are carried out with the financial support of OAK Foundation |
Meeting with the UWF grantees in Moldova
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Meeting with Moldovan organizations – winners of the UWF grant program competition for organizations working for women and with women took place in Chisinau on December 28, 2009. This year the UWF received totally 104 project proposals from Ukraine and Moldova, 15 of the (11 from Ukraine, 4 from Moldova) were supported by the following directions:
Women change themselves and their communities
Let us help women out of crisis
Women in politics – way to chnages
As a result of the competition the following 4 project submitted by Moldova organizations, received financing:
"Assisting women: how to help ourselves". "Lia-Cimislia" Women’s NGO
"Counteracting violence against young women in Moldova". "Equality" National Institute of Women in Moldova
"Girls Change the World". "Initiative" Women’s Association
"Women Against Domestic Violence". Comrat Legal Clinic
The following persons were present: representatives of Ukrainian Women’s Fund (Director Olesya Bondar, Financial Manager Lyudmyla Bezsonova, Board Member Sofia Shuleansky), project leaders and directors of organizations, which received grants, representatives of UWF’s information center in Moldova - National Women’s Studies and Information Center “Partnership for Development”
Meeting with grantees consisted of the following stages:
- presentation of the Fund’s staff sbout different different directions of work, the Fund’s programs, their goals, peculiarities, how they are connected with each other, and how women’s organizations can make use of these programs;
- informing about the procedures of drawing and submitting reports to the UWF during and after the project realization, providing information about the project;
- participants’ presentations of their organizations and the projects supported;
- discussing the situation of women’s movement in Moldova, activities of Moldova women’s CSOs, challenges they face as well as possible way of financing.
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MEETING OF THE UWF GRANTEES
 Meeting with organizations – winners of the UWF’ s grant competition took place on January 16, 2008.On the whole within the competition program the Fund received 85 projects, 17 of them were supported by the following directions:
· Women’s economic empowerment
· Sustainable development of women’s NGOs
· Practices of implementing institutional mechanisms for ensuring gender equality
· Women change communities
The projects, which received financing by the results of grant competition:
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Involving Rural Women in Small Business. Association of Rural Women of Ukraine, All-Ukrainian Non-governmental Organization, Poltava Regional branch.
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Women’s Business for Local Community! Chernihiv City League (Club) of Business and Professional Women.
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Women’s Potential for Development of Private Sector in Belarus. "Belarus Women’s Information and Coordination Center" Civil Association(Belarus).
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Preventing Women’s Unemployment and Developing Entrepreneurship in Green Tourism. League of Business and Professional Women, Kharkiv City Non-governmental Organization.
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Teaching women to make their careers. Association of Business Women of Belts (Moldova).
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Assisting economic development of women’s initiatives in the sphere of rural green tourism of Ivano-Frankivsk region. Regional Tourist and Information Center.
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Learn, plan, make my life successful. Agency for the Development of Entrepreneurship Among Women and Youth.
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Enhancing women’s economic opportunities in mountainous areas of Carpathian. Agency for Economic Development of Turka district.
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Adapting Belarus women to the contemporary labor conditions. South-West Club of Businesswomen, Pinsk City Civil Association (Belarus).
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Three-level model of cooperation for WNGO development; Three levels – one goal. Berehynya Women's NGO.
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State gender policy through women’s eyes. Slaviya All-Ukrainian Women’s Association, Cherkasy Regional Organization.
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Women of Ozernyi – for clean living!. Women’s Information Consultative Center (Zhytomyr).
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Three steps to raise women’s social activism in Sumy region. Sumy Press-Club, Sumy Regional NGO.
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Water for the City. ÌÀÌÀ-86, Artemivsk.
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You Are not Alone. Berehynya, Kharkiv Region Women's Association.
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Promoting participation of women-leaders and women’s organizations in solving the issues of territorial development. Civil Initiative of Luhansk Region, regional non-governmental organization.
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Prevention of domestic violence. Harmony Women’s Crisis Center, Charitable Institution
The meeting’s agenda included the following:
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presentation of the Fund’s staff sbout different different directions of work, the Fund’s programs, their goals, peculiarities, how they are connected with each other, and how women’s organizations can make use of these programs;
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informing about the procedures of drawing and submitting reports to the UWF during and after the project realization, providing information about the project;
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participants’ presentations of their organizations and the projects supported.
You can find more details about the supported projects in Grants section
First Step to Success MINI GRAINS PROGRAM
Training on planning and writing projects
The winners of the First step to success program-2007 showed they have interesting ideas, sincere desire, inexhaustible energy and strength to change our country for the better, influence positively on development of a just society and form a new wave of young women-leaders in Ukraine; each of them takes an active part in the country's social life and, which is the most important, believes in her efforts.
On December 14 in Kyiv there was the meeting of girls who are ready to implement their leadership projects and ideas. With this goal they came to the training on planning and writing projects. The girls learned how to formulate the problem, choose the goal, make plans, and specify budgets of their projects, were making presentations of the projects they would like to be supported.
CONGRATULATIONS TO THE WINNERS OF "FIRST STEP TO SUCCESS" PROGRAM
On October14, 2007 the Ukrainian House hosted the meeting of30 girls-winners of the First Step to Success program with famous women-leaders of Ukraine and other countries of the world.
The principal speaker at the meeting was Co-founder and Chair of Vital Voices Global Partnership Melanne Verveer, who served as Assistant to the President and Chief of Staff to the First Lady in the Clinton Administration. The Program winners also received the opportunity to communicate with an America austronaut of Ukrainian origin Heidemarie M. Stefanyshyn-Piper.
Girls-winners were also invited to the opening reception of Vital Voices of Eurasia: A Leadership Summit for Women& Girls, launched in Kyiv by the international nonprofit Vital Voices Global Partnership. The reception took place in Sofiya Kyivska, in Metropolitan House, it was Ukrainian-style, owing to which more than200 guests from different countries had opportunity to get acquainted with our national traditions and try Ukrainian cuisine.
On October 15 the girls had a chance to get acquainted with the work of such successful company as “Procter&Gamble”, to visit its office and communicate with its leadership. “Procter&Gamble”, which supports “Always” brand, conducted for active girls of Ukraine the 4-hour training on developing leadership skills.
Besides, ten girls-winners of the First Step to Success program (three winners from this year and seven ones from the previous) took part in the work of Vital Voices of Eurasia Leadership Summitduring October 15-17 and spoke at its sessions as youth experts.
The First Step to Success Program continues. Young girls leadership movement is becoming stronger.
And Ukraine knows its leaders.
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