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Women for Women - United in Power

The overall objective is to empower women coming from non-majority communities and living in North Kosovo to participate into decision making processes and raise awareness among men about the importance of their inclusion. More precisely, the long-term aim of the project is to promote and support inclusion of more women in judiciary, police and politics. By doing so the number of women will get higher which will improve the implementation of the overall quota (as per the Law on Gender Equality) and bring Kosovo closer to the European path.

Specific Objectives are the following:

SO 1 - Public informed about the lack of women`s participatory role and importance of women inclusion in regard to the EU accession process and on importance of Gender Equality.

SO 2 - Women from northern Kosovo involved in creating a women network and cooperation with existing networks in Kosovo.

SO 3 - Advocacy and promotion of better inclusion of women from the non-majority communities into the EU Accession Process and better inclusion on their needs and priorities in Kosovo Progress Reports.

Expected results:

Result 1: Public awareness is raised on importance of inclusion of women from non-majority communities in political and social processes, particularly EU Accession Process, and on importance of Gender Equality;

Result 2: Women’s Network is established in northern Kosovo, bringing together women from different institutions and civil society organizations.

Result 3: Participation of women in relevant institutions and in decision making processes at local level is regularly monitored and reported and women’s inclusion and Gender Equality is promoted.

Activities:

Activity 1: Comprehensive study on inclusion of women from non-majority communities in judiciary, police and politics.

Activity 2: Advocacy Meetings

Activity 3: Media campaign - Women and decision making

Activity 4: Networking of women in police officers, judges, prosecutors and politicians from non-majority community

The project, implemented by ACDC, has been supported by Reactor - Research in Action and their partners through the Action "Furthering Gender Equality through the EU Accession Process". This Action is funded by the European Union and co-funded by the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency.