Women Can Do It Program

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Women Can Do It Program

• Montenegrin Womens Lobby
• Women action
• Women Forum Montenegro

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Current Situation in Montenegro

• Montenegro Parliament has 11,11 women MPs, and
  6,25 in Government.
• Two institutional Gender mechanisms
• Governmental Office for Gender Equality (more
  important activities and well cooperation with
  WNGOs)
• Parliamentary Body for Gender Equality (without
  any activities, until now).
• Three of political parties have a women Forum
  (Social Democratic Party, People s Party Group
  for a change)

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Violation of womens human rights

• Work on new Constitution of Montenegro- The
  Constitution creators have made it without
  defining women in it.
• Many women NGOs have made and created initiative
  to get resignation from the head of Parliamentary
  board for gender equality, after she had made
  some improper comments about work of womens
  NGOs in Montenegro.
• Writing of the Shadow report for CEDAW
• The author will give more detailed explanations

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WCDI program in Montenegro

• 3 Partners group
• Montenegrin Womens lobby ( Young women in
  politics)
• Womens Action ( Journalists Can Do It)
• Women Forum Montenegro ( Politicians )
• Direct beneficiers in Montenegro 345 women
• Direct activities 16 seminars

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Young Women Can Do ItMWL

• Activities and results
• Advanced seminar in Budva with trainer exchange
  from the region Bosnia, Macedonia and Serbia.
• Six one-day seminars in six towns Budva,
  Podgorica, Mojkovac, Bijelo Polje, Ulcinj and
  Podgorica
• 116 direct beneficiaries, about 2.000 indirect
  and average mark of seminars was 4,88
• Local action in five towns under slogan Women in
  Constitution count on us!
• Distribution and sharing propaganda materials to
  political parties, universities
• Radio shows in towns where seminars have taken
  place.
• Evaluation common with Womens forum.

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Women actionCapacity Building of Women
Journalists Network

• Activities and results
• Preparation and printing of project related
  material - in October and November 2006 and T4T-
  in October 21st and 22nd, 2006,Tivat, hotel Palma
• Implementation of 4 network seminars in the
  period of 16th December 2006 18th February 2006
• Implementation of Project Action advertise of
  Women Journalists Network in daily newspaper
  Vijesti, March 17th 2007
• Realization of Evaluation Conference Lessons
  learnt, Podgorica, PR Centre, March 17th 2007
•         Strengthened capacity of Women
  Journalists Network as well as personal and
  professional capacities of women journalists
•         Strengthened women journalists skills
  with focus to empowering of level of gender
  sensibility in their whole work
•         Empowerment of women media network and
  making visible of their work
•         Increased number of media which use
  gender correct language continually and properly

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Politicians can do itWomen Forum Montenegro

• Activities
• Preparation meetings with trainers and political
  parties, preparation of leaflets.
• Organizing six WCDI workshops, meetings with nine
  parliamentary political parties/coalitions,
  organizing and supervising actions of four
  political parties, evaluation and reporting to
  NPA.
• In total 117 participants, average mark of the
  seminar 4,95
• Actions
• Round table Law on gender equality organized by
  Liberal party, support organizing Womens
  organization in Group for a change and signing of
  Declaration of gender equality by the president
  of the Group.
• Socialist people party, Peoples party and
  Democrat Serbian party have organized round table
  on Law University Gender equality and European
  integrations.