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The International
Gender Policy Network (IGPN) is a membership based, non-governmental
organization and has been established in autumn 2005 in order to strengthen and
foster the policy work impact of the woman’s movement and to ensure the
sustainability of women’s movements in the Central, Eastern and South Eastern
Europe, Caucasus and Central Asia. Network of partners, formely affiliated to
the Network Women’s Program of the Open Society Institute (NWP OSI) and
actively collaborating with the NWP OSI through national offices of the Open
Society Institutes and later directly, as independent NGOs, conceptualized its
cooperation and structure into common goals and mission.
IGPN Fulfills Its Goals Through:
- Conducting policy research and analyses to ensure
monitoring and accountability of the major agreements in the area of
women’s rights and gender equality.
- Contribution to national, regional, and global public
policies on gender equality.
- Promotion of effective and responsible gender
mainstreaming strategies.
- Strategic engagement of multiple stakeholders in
advancement of women’s rights (including civil society organizations and
networks, governments, international agencies, donors, etc.).
HOTEST PROJECT
01.02.2009
Increasing
women’s political representation
IGPN started to work on the initiative towards increasing political
representation of women regionally – advocating the women’s rights on political
participation at national and regional level.
In January 2009 IGPN prepared training for members on political participation
of women. The training program was developed in cooperation with International
Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance from Sweden and with Gender
Links from South Africa.
During the training we were mapping the situation regarding political
participation in IGPN region. We prepared the list of IGPN countries with the
basic data and we identified challenges and opportunities.
We were also deepening the knowledge among IGPN members on methods for
increasing political participation of women. Some of IGPN members shared their
good or bad examples.
We started to create guidelines of good practices how to increase political
participation of women and also we started the preparation of the development
of database of women who are able and willing to enter the politics.
We also held brainstorming on how to effectively involve IGPN in global
discussions on political participation.
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