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Invitation to a Training Seminar:
“EU Development Policies and their monitoring in the region of CEE/CIS”
organized by NEWW in Gdansk, Poland, June 26-27, 2006
The
Network of East West Women would like to invite NGOs from CEE/CIS interested in
EU Development policy and its monitoring to a training seminar in Gdansk, Poland in June 26-27, 2006.
The seminar answers a strong need
for an EU development policy monitoring which would enable NGOs from the region
to engage more effectively with the EU Development Policy Debate and in
consequence improve the situation of women in CEE/CIS. The seminar is part of a project called
the EU Gender Watch supported by the
Presidency Fund. The two day meeting will provide training for 15
participants. They will be selected by
a committee consisting of the coordinating team of the EU Gender Watch Project.
NEWW will cover accommodation and travel expenses of the participants.
Please read the background note on
the training on the EU Gender Watch Project attached to this letter (you can
find more information on the Presidency Fund website: www.presidencyfund.org) and
if you are interested please send a letter of motivation stating what role you would
like to play in the project (a participant of the training / a participant of
the training and a Focal Point), your cv, one letter of recommendation and
information on your NGO to: Malgorzata Tarasiewicz at tarasiewicz@neww.org.pl
Sincerely
Yours,
Malgorzata Tarasiewicz
Director,
NEWW
Background
Note on the EU Gender Watch and training:
In 2006 NEWW is starting a project called EU Gender Watch. By implementing the project the
Network wants to support the countries in the CEE/CIS region which are eligible
for development assistance by using monitoring,
lobbying and advocacy to ensure that gender concerns are present in the EU
development policy towards this part of the region.
In
order to answer the need to build capacity among women NGOs and in order to
allow them to familiarize with current debates on EU Development Policy to be
able to carry out research, monitoring, lobbying and advocacy (to ensure the
inclusion of a gender perspective in development policies of the EU) NEWW is organizing a training workshop for 15 women NGOs from NMS, potential MS
and the EU Neighboring Countries, on the EU development policies (on EU
mechanisms, regulations and funding mechanisms at sub-regional, and regional
levels.)
Participants
of the training at the end of the workshop will have enough knowledge of EU
development policies that they will draft objectives and a plan for actions
concerning monitoring, lobbying and advocacy actions. In this way NEWW wants to
build of a group of representatives of women NGOs from CEE/CIS trained on EU
development policy willing to collaborate on this
issue.
After completion of the first phase
of NEWW’s project (capacity building), its participants will be
able to enter into the second phase of the project consisting of research on
national level in countries outside the EU
to explore how they are affected by the EU development policies, regarding
gender equality. Later the participants of the project will start lobbying and advocacy activities.
The
Network wants to bring the issue of gender concerns of the CEE/CIS region to
the attention of the national and European policy makers and become a hub for
organizing monitoring, lobbying and advocacy efforts to ensure that EU commitments to advance gender equality and
its translation into policy, action, and allocation of resources are reflected
in EU development assistance to countries of the region. The common or specific problems will be identified in the
research countries and communicated to the EU and the national
governments. It will be done
through strategies mainly focusing on the Council of the European Union, in
particular on the governments of the countries where the NGO(s) is/are
based, and on Members of the European Parliament. This
will initiate a monitoring,
lobbying and advocacy phase of the project which will ensure that gender issues
are taken into consideration in development and implementation of the EU
policies.
Expectations of future cooperation
with training participants:
15
women representing NGOs from CEE/CIS who will be trained in development issues
should be committed to collaboration with the EU Gender Watch at least for a
year. They will form a CEE/CIS
development network concentrating on gender issues. Hopefully other women’s
NGOs from the region will commit to cooperate within the network and agree
to announce to the public the fact of being members of the CEE/CIS development
network of women NGOs. They will also
agree on common objectives and plan of action.
Among
the training participants there will be three focal points of the EU Gender
Watch who will commit to collect information, carry on research, promote the
network, engage in lobbying and advocacy activities. The focal points will help NEWW to coordinate work of the network
and research on three selected countries in the region which receive
development aid. The participants of
the training are expected to support and cooperate with the focal points.
The
research will enable the coordinators of the project and members of the CEE/CIS
gender development network to explore how the
countries in which research was conducted are affected, by EU development
policies regarding gender equality. On the basis of the research the
Secretariat will be able to identify common or specific problems of the
research countries and communicate them to the EU.
Communicating
the concerns of women from the CEE/CIS to the EU will
be done through strategies mainly focusing on the Council of the European
Union, in particular on the governments of the countries where the NGO(s) are
based, and on Members of the European Parliament. After a research is concluded
the coordinators of the project will identify common
or specific problems of the research countries and communicate them to the EU
during a meeting (possibly a hearing).
Development
policy postulates will be drafted by the project coordinators
together with the Focal Points on the basis of the research, outcomes of the
collaboration with EU NGDOs and cooperation within the CEE/CIS Development
Network. The postulates will be presented
to the EU institutions, NGOs and the public. Hopefully the EU institutions will take a position on the
postulates and will adopt their development policies accordingly with
them.
The
Focal Points will receive stipends for its work. The participants of the training and members of the network are
expected to be involved in the work of the EU Gender Watch on a voluntary
basis.
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