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EU Gender Watch
The main objective of the "EU Gender Watch" project consists in enabling women NGOs/networks in New Member States, Accession Countries and EU Neighboring Countries to cooperate in monitoring and lobbying the EU on its development policies in order to make the EU commitment to advance gender equality and its translation into policy, action, and allocation of resources reflected in EU assistance to countries of the region.
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EU-CIS Gender Watch 2007-2008 - Country Reports
Gender experts form six different countries have developed
reports describing from gender perspective – on one side – Official Development
Assistance (ODA) of their governments (New Member States of the European Union)
and on the other side – the EU Developmental Aid that beneficiary countries
receive (European Union Neighborhood countries). When we take into
consideration that not even 20 years ago all those countries citizens were
living under non-democratic rules, in totalitarian regime, it is hard to
believe that now some of them already joined EU and some – left on the
peripheries of democratic change – remain poor and underdeveloped. There have
been so many hopes that assisted our (Polish) accession to the European Union.
Regulations that concerned women’s rights and gender equality were adopted by
all the NMS governments, now the directives and Treaties must be respected. The
same we owe the women from the
1.
Bulgaria –
by Tania Tisheva from Bulgarian Gender Research Foundation [ pdf 827.27 kB ]
2.
Czech
Republic – by Kristina Kosatikova from International Gender Policy
Network [ pdf 368.66 kB ]
3.
Hungary – by
Reka Safrany from MONA Foundation [ pdf 428.47 kB ]
At the same time women from European Neighborhood countries were
describing all the EU Developmental Aid their countries receive – from gender
perspective. Three women made an analysis of changes in their countries, they
have contacted many national and international institutions, they established
or joined their national NGDO platforms and provided trainings on gender and
development for other NGO activists.
In the result three reports were launched:
1.
Armenia – by
Svetlana Aslanyan from Center for the Development of Civil Society [ pdf 418.65 kB ]
2.
Georgia – by
Helen Rusetsky from Women’s Information Centre [ pdf 412.66 kB ]
3.
Ukraine – by
Oksana Kisselyova from Liberal Society Institute [ pdf 590.47 kB ]
Launch of the report and NGO strategy meeting as well as the
bilateral meetings with the European Commission and European Parliament
representatives took place in
The structure of each kind of reports is the same. This is
helpful in comparison of the women’s situation and EU or governmental promises
of respective countries. All reports will be presented to national governments,
countires permanent respresentations in
I hope that this work will be taken into account in programming
coming out from the Lisbon Treaty as well as taken into hearts of future MEP
(Elections in 2009) and EC representatives by mid term review of the European
Neighborhood Policy Instrument in 2010.
Zofia Łapniewska
EU-CIS Gender Watch Coordinator
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