"GENDER ARITHMETICS OF POWER" brochure. Text in English

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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           QUESTIONNAIRE FORM (Ukrainian)    Conducting the questionnaire and conference are carried out with the financial support of OAK Foundation

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.

                                    MEETING OF THE UWF GRANTEES 

Meeting with organizations – winners of the UWF’ s grant competition took place on January 16, 2008.

• Involving Rural Women in Small Business. Association of Rural Women of Ukraine, All-Ukrainian Non-governmental Organization, Poltava Regional branch.
• Women’s Business for Local Community! Chernihiv City League (Club) of Business and Professional Women.
• Women’s Potential for Development of Private Sector in Belarus. "Belarus Women’s Information and Coordination Center" Civil Association(Belarus).
• Preventing Women’s Unemployment and Developing Entrepreneurship in Green Tourism. League of Business and Professional Women, Kharkiv City Non-governmental Organization.
• Teaching women to make their careers. Association of Business Women of Belts (Moldova).
• Assisting economic development of women’s initiatives in the sphere of rural green tourism of Ivano-Frankivsk region. Regional Tourist and Information Center.
• Learn, plan, make my life successful. Agency for the Development of Entrepreneurship Among Women and Youth.
• Enhancing women’s economic opportunities in mountainous areas of Carpathian. Agency for Economic Development of Turka district.
• Adapting Belarus women to the contemporary labor conditions. South-West Club of Businesswomen, Pinsk City Civil Association (Belarus).
• Three-level model of cooperation for WNGO development; Three levels – one goal. Berehynya Women's NGO.
• State gender policy through women’s eyes. Slaviya All-Ukrainian Women’s Association, Cherkasy Regional Organization.
• Women of Ozernyi – for clean living!. Women’s Information Consultative Center (Zhytomyr).
• Three steps to raise women’s social activism in Sumy region. Sumy Press-Club, Sumy Regional NGO.
• Water for the City. ÌÀÌÀ-86, Artemivsk.
• You Are not Alone. Berehynya, Kharkiv Region Women's Association.
• 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.
• Prevention of domestic violence. Harmony Women’s Crisis Center, Charitable Institution

• 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.

                                      You can find more details about the supported projects in Grants section 

 

 Application form (in Ukrainian)

  

PHOTOS

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.