Local - International Girls Parliament
in Latin America and Europe
This unique
project is funded by the European Commission, and carried out simultaneously in
9 different municipalities in six Latin American and three European countries in
the framework of the EU´s URB-AL network, which focuses on decentralisation.
The participating communities are:
Austria, Stadt Graz
Italy, Provincia de Alessandria
Spain Sabadell (Barcelona)
El Salvador, San Salvador
Costa Rica, Municipalidad
de Belén
Venezuela,
Municipalidad de Sucre
Bolivia, Municipalidad de San Xavier/Concepción
Perú, Municipalidad de Ate
Argentina, Ciudad de Buenos
Aires
Through this project, Women without Borders will establish
and maintain a process of political education for young women of diverse
socio-economic and cultural backgrounds in order to provide them with capacities
for leadership skills, sensitisation for gender equity, critical thinking,
democratic concepts etc. This will be achieved by setting up of a local and
international platform where these young women can learn and exercise these
capacities.
The target group are young women from secondary schools,
universities and social organisations between the ages of 15 and 24.
The
principle activities are to develop and design educational and instructive
material, to run a capacity building workshop, in order to train the local
staff, to set up the local/international Parliaments, to establish a
communication network between the participants, and to create a web page as the
main medium for exchange, information and communication of the project.
General
Objective
To promote a process of learning and sensitisation
for young women in local politics and in political concepts (democracy,
political participation and gender equity), using a gender-based approach, in
order to contribute to the development of an active citizenship. This will
create an intercontinental network of local/international Girls' Parliaments, in
order to compensate the imbalance of female representation in local politics,
with the aim to transform the platform into a Youth Parliament, sensitising and
educating young women and men in politics with a gender perspective.
Project start: June 2005
Project duration: 2
years