EXECUTIVE BOARD

  • chairperson: Monika Ladmanová (Czech Republic)
    After graduating from law school, Monika joined the non-governmental sector and started to work for the Czech Helsinki Committee and serve as a lawyer for its Counseling Center for Refugees and Asylum Seekers. Later she was appointed the coordinator for the newly established Legal Program within the Open Society Foundation Prague. The program attempts to broaden the respect for the standards of international human rights conventions and to promote a change in our legal culture and mentality. Monika’s agenda expanded to include coordination of the Foundation Gender Program. The primary focus of the program is to introduce the concept of the changing roles and status of men and women in society and to improve its understanding. Several projects of the Open Society Fund Prague have been operated through the public benefit association Open Society, which Monika became an executive director in 2003. The Open Society serves as a program laboratory and reacts on societal needs in terms of identifying niches and preparing strategies to foster changes. She is foundress and Chairwomen of the Slovak-Czech Women’s Fund, a vehicle established to mobilize resources in the two countries in order to contribute and support gender equality efforts and member of the Board of Directors of LaStrada Czech Republic, working in the area of trafficking in person.
  • Natalia Karbowska (Ukraine)
    B.A., Organization’s Management, Kyiv Business College B.A., Personnel Management, Interregional Extramural University of Personnel Management, Kyiv, Ukraine At present Natalka is working as Behavior Change Communications Director in project Together for Health at JSI and AED Kyiv, Ukraine. They try to increase public support for Reproductive Health/Family Planning (RH/FP) programs. She collaborates with private sector partners on BCC activities. Works with NGOs to boost advocacy efforts in support of RH/FP services and to extend the outreach of RH/FP promotion and provides technical assistance to NGOs. Works with government on both national and regional levels as well as community-based organizations to implement outreach activities targeting men, women and adolescents in both urban and rural areas. Develops materials and activities to promote the project and disseminate the results of its work. 2004-2006 Natalka was president of Ukrainian Women’s Fund. She was also Chief of party (Women’s Economic Empowerment Project), Gender Specialist (BIZPRO Project), East-East Women’s Program Director. She is Member of the Steering Committee of the East-East Program (Open Society Institute – New York) and Member of Gender Council of the Ukrainian Ministry of Youth and Sports.
  • Tanya Kmetova (Bulgaria)
    M. A. in Slavic Philology, Faculty of Slavic Studies, Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski”, Bulgaria Certificates and diplomas of trainings in women’s and gender issues and gender mainstreaming from different international educational institutions and women’s organizations; certificates on trainings in project management and decision making procedures from the International Management Centre, Budapest, Hungary. Executive director of the Center of Women’s Studies and Policies, fourteen years experience as a programs’ manager and coordinator and advisory and evaluation boards’ member of the Open Society Institute in Sofia; board member and member of a number of international and national women’s organizations; civil society activist; evaluator and assessor of NGOs projects and activities for different international donors’ organizations, experience as an expert in gender, minorities and education of the World Bank and of the European level institutions.
  • Dr. Nada Ler Sofronic (Bosnia and Hercegovina)
    Nada is one of the first feminist scholars and woman's rights activist in former Yugoslavia. She was a conceptual creator of the First International Feminist Conference in Eastern Europe, held in Belgrade 1978. The main focus in her work is woman, democratization and civil society in post socialist conditions. Her academic bacground is Social Psychology and Political Sciences. She is one of the founders and the lecturer on woman/gender studies in the region. Nada is one of the founder and board member of International Gender Policy Network. Dr. Nada Ler Sofronic is author and coo-author of numerous books, essays, articles on gender issues. Most recently , she co-edited the book Fundamentalism's today-feminist and democratic responses published by Woman and Society and Woman in black form Belgrade.

Working together is always better

no more empty promises

no more lip service

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FOUNDING MEMBERS of IGPN

ALBANIA
Gender Alliance for Development Center (GADC)

GADC aims to create equal opportunities between the sexes through: information, studies, advocacy, lobbying and training courses, approached with a gender perspective. In the three years to come the GADC will put its efforts on the gender analysis of policies, programs and strategies that will be implemented in Albania. It will focus on the monitoring and evaluation of policies; will encourage the compilation of policies and strategies that are gender sensitive.

Address:
GADC, P.O. Box 2418 Tirana, Albania
Tel/ Fax: +355 4 255514/5

E-mail: info@women-center.tirana.al
E-mail: tina@women-center.tirana.al
Internet: www.women-center.org.al
BOSNIA AND HERCEGOVINA
Woman and Society
(Research, Policy and Advocacy Center)

Research, Policy and Advocacy Center “Woman and Society” is independent feminist non-profit and non-governmental organization operating at the state level of Bosnia and Herzegovina. The mission is to create a public space for gathering and mobilization of women to protect and promote woman’s human rights and advocate for social changes towards gender sensitive policies. We focus on: Supporting the public debate and facilitating the discussion on common formulation what are the crucial social changes and programs of interest for women. Empowering and educating women to conduct research and alternative analyses in promoting social changes in order to improve women’s human rights. Gender analysis of the legislative reform in B&H and advocacy actions for gender sensitive institutional reforms and implementation of Gender Equality Law. Making women’s initiatives visible on local and global scene and make the efforts that authentic voice of B&H women are heard within the global discourse on women’s human rights.

Address:
Human Rights House, Ante Fijamenga 14 b, 71000 Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Tel: +387 33 660 811
Fax: +387 33 663 394

E-mail: nadalsws@bih.net.ba
Internet: www.womansoc.ba
BULGARIA
The Center of Women’s Studies and Policies (CWSP)

The Center of Women’s Studies and Policies (CWSP) is a Bulgarian NGO established in 2003 to support the women’s movement, to protect women’s human rights and to promote the adoption of gender equality policies. Its main activities include: conducting surveys on the status of women; monitoring the status of women and violence against women; lobbying and awareness raising campaigns; providing information, training and resources for all levels of government, trade unions, NGO

Address:
6, Triaditsa Street, floor 1, office101
Sofia 1000, Bulgaria
Tel/ Fax: +359 2 980 6265

E-mail: cwsp@cwsp.bg
Internet: www.cwsp.bg
CZECH REPUBLIC
Slovak-Czech Women’s Fund (SCWF)

The Slovak-Czech Women’s Fund’s mission is to contribute to a society where women can fully enjoy their rights. Our goal is to ensure the resources to support the promotion of women’s rights and to implement the principle of gender equality in society. The objectives of the Slovak-Czech Women’s Fund are: To ensure and distribute resources in order to support women’s organizations in the Czech and Slovak Republic along with their mutual co-operation; To initiate and support activities related to women’s human rights and gender equality, as well as the design and implementation of fair gender policies in both the Czech and Slovak Republics; To contribute to the development of the women’s movement in both the Czech and Slovak Republics; To develop a culture of philanthropy and social responsibility.

Address/Slovak Office:
Bastova 5, 811 03 Bratislava, Slovak Republic
Tel/ Fax: +421 254 417 937

E-mail: lementova@womensfund.sk
Internet: www.womensfund.cz

Address/Czech Office:
Borivojova 105, 130 00 Prague 3, Czech Republic
Tel/ Fax: +420 222 716 823

E-mail: hronkova@womensfund.cz
Internet: www.womensfund.cz
GEORGIA
TASO Foundation
(Women’s fund & Memory research center)

2007, is the independent organization transformed from Women’s Program, which had been operating at the Open Society Georgia Foundation since 1998. The Program, through 8 years of its operation in the country, intensive collaboration with OSI NWP leadership, colleagues and other leaders of women’s movements of OSI Traditional Region, and international agencies, had gained the experience which allows continuing the mission as the independent entity. TASO Foundation maintains collaboration with reliable and experienced partners; establish new contacts, support vital, interesting and realistic initiatives and realize in-house projects. The library and archives of Memory Research Center at TASO Foundation are open for researchers and women’s movement activists. Goals of TASO Foundation are:
  • Support achievement of gender equality in Georgia;
  • Protect women’s rights and freedoms;
  • Ensure participation of women in the processes of peace-building, democratic and economic development;
  • Combat gender based violence;
  • Protect children’s rights and combat violence against children;
  • Support development of social sciences, gender studies and feminist art in Georgia;
  • Protect nature and cultural heritage
Adress:
15, Rezo Tabukashvili Str.
Tbilisi 0108, GEORGIA
Tel/Fax: (995 32) 92 05 95

E-mail: marina@taso.org.ge
E-mail: davit@taso.org.ge
E-mail: tsisana@taso.org.ge
Internet: www.taso.org.ge
HUNGARY
Foundation for the Women of Hungary (MONA)

MONA is a non-profit, non-partisan foundation dedicated to the betterment of the lives of all women in Hungary. MONA fuses the theoretical and practical by:
Educating women on empowerment strategies for participation in a democratic society by improving political activity in all levels of government through the use of lobbying and media techniques, economic strength through job-seeking strategies and training, preparation for the job market of the 21st century. Supporting research on women’s issues on a national and international level.

Address:
H-1537 Budapest, P.O. Box 453/277
Tel/ Fax: +36-1-3752-953

E-mail: mona.alapitvany@gmail.com
Internet: www.mona-hungary.hu
KAZAKHSTAN
Feminist League

The main goal of the Feminist League is to promote equality of women and men in all spheres of life: economic, political, social, cultural and within the home. The Feminist League strives to achieve its goals through the following activities and programs:

Library on women’s issues
Research and publication of reports on women’s issues in Kazakhstan
Informational support to women’s NGOs and mass media
Monitoring gender-related legislation of the Republic of Kazakhstan
Education about women’s issues
Informational electronic network FemLine.
Web-site “Silk Road Women

Address:
480091 P.O. Box 521, Almaty, Kazakhstan
Tel/ Fax: +7 3272 610241

E-mail: feminist@women.kz
Internet: www.women.kz
KOSOVA
Kosovar Gender Studies Center( KGSC)

The Kosovar Gender Studies Center is a non- governmental and non-profit organization established in December 2002, whose strategic mandate is to involve a gender perspective in all sectors of Kosovar society by developing gender studies and policies that are gender sensitive through its main activities:

Conducting research on gender issues
Public policy analysis and advocacy
Collecting, developing and disseminating accurate and most recent data and information on gender issues in Kosova

Address:
Nena Tereze 13 /60, H 2/3 Prishtine 10 000
Kosova – UNMIK
Tel/ Fax: +381 0 38 540 719

E-mail: info@kgscenter.org
Internet: www.kgscenter.org
LITHUANIA
Center for Equality Advancement (CEA)

The main mission of the CEA is to raise public awareness and by preempting gender and sexual orientation, ethnicity, disability based discrimination protect human rights and consolidate democratic values in the society. Goals of CEA:
to inform and educate society on the implementation of equal opportunity policies in Lithuania and the European Union; to develop tolerance, change negative stereotypes and combat discrimination in society based on sex, age, nationality, race/ethnicity, sexual orientation, disability, etc; to reduce social exclusion in Lithuanian society; to promote values of an open democratic society by encouraging dialogue on gender issues; to develop and promote gender equality.

Address:
Raugyklos str. 15, 01140 Vilnius, Lithuania
Tel/ Fax: +370-5 2335 380

E-mail: info@gap.lt
Internet: www.gap.lt
MACEDONIA
Akcija Zdruzhenska

Mission of Akcija Zdruzhenska is to contribute to the development of sustainable women’s movement in Macedonia, competent to tackle women’s human rights and gender equality issues, as part of the global efforts and needs in this area. Main activities:
mobilizing and support of women activist on a local community level in advocacy initiatives promotion and strengthening capacities for effective use of ICT among women activists from local communities developing recommendations for improving the national policies related to gender equality related to the European Union standards in area of equal opportunities, violence against women, as well as integration of gender perspective into the national strategy for information society.

Address:
Bul. Ilinden, br 39/1-2, 1000 Skopje
Macedonia
Tel/ Fax: +389 2 32 15 66, 61, 62

E-mail: zdruzenska@zdruzenska.org.mk
Internet: www.zdruzenska.org.mk
MOLDOVA
CENTER „PARTNERSHIP FOR
DEVELOPMENT” BASIC INFORMATION

The National Women’s Studies and Information Center „Partnership for Development” (CPD), founded in 1998, is a non-profit institution that promotes an integrative approach to gender issues, women’s rights and equal opportunities for men and women. CPD integrates gender mainstreaming into all domains of social life, promotes public policy and issues regarding the role of women in society and their empowerment and strives to eliminate all forms of discrimination against women. CPD is also a documentation, information and training center for women’s NGOs and initiative groups.

Goal: Develop and strengthen resources and mechanisms of equal empowerment of women and men for promoting gender equality in the Republic of Moldova by means of lobby and advocacy.

Mission: CPD promotes gender equity values as an integral part of an open society to consolidate an authentic gender partnership.

Vision: CPD advocates the edification of a community with equal perspectives and opportunities for its members, where both men and women have equal rights, are able to solve problems together, can benefit equally by new opportunities and can be fully involved in social, economic and political activities.

STRUCTURE
  • Social Empowerment and Education Program
  • Economic Empowerment and Professional Orientation Program
  • Legal Empowerment and Assistance Program
  • Political Empowerment and Community Participation Program
  • Department of Informational Resources
Address:
13, Armeneasca str., Chisinau 2012, MOLDOVA
Tel/fax: +373 22 24 13 93

E-mail:
cpd@progen.md
terzi@progen.md

Internet:www.progen.md
MONGOLIA
WOMEN’S LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION (WLF)

Mission: WLF’s mission is to promote the advancement of women’s human rights, gender equality, and empowerment in Mongolia.
Goals: Transform public thinking and raise awareness about women and gender issues through the promotion of gender research and gender-sensitive media; Increase women’s political participation; and Eliminate violations of women’s human rights and violence against women in Mongolia
Programs: Women’s Political Participation
Gender and Mass Media
Women’s Human Rights and Violence Against Women
Rural Women Empowerment

Address:
Jamyan Gunii Street, 5/2, Suhkbaatar District
Ulaanbaatar 48
Tel/ Fax: +976 11 319 746

E-mail: wlf@magicnet.mn
ROMANIA
CENTER FOR PARTNERSHIP AND EQUALITY (CPE)

CPE is committed to mainstreaming the principle of equal opportunities for women and men into the public policies and associated practices, as an integral part of democratization and the creation of an open society, in order to re-define the status and improve the condition of women in Romania. CPE supports initiatives and runs programs and projects that aim at raising awareness within the Romanian society in regards to women’s present condition and the role they can and must play in the social development of the country. The CPE’S main programs National Observatory on Equal Opportunities for Women and Men Gender and Education Violence against Women

Address:
33, Caderea Bastiliei St.1st District, 010613
Bucharest, Romania
Tel: +4021 212 11 96; 212 11 97
Fax: +4021 212 10 35

E-mail: info@cpe.ro
Internet: www.cpe.ro
RUSSIA
The Institute for Social and Gender Policy

The Institute supports the initiatives aimed at building a socially just society where women are free from barriers that constrain their right to decent life and economic independence and limit their opportunities for self-actualization and creativity. The Fund largely focuses on:
providing unencumbered access for women to knowledge, information, services, resources, decision making procedures and initiatives that would enable them to effectively combine their work and family duties; strengthening solidarity between, and increasing the efficiency of, women’s organizations that promote public interests and encourage of women’s rights protection; highlighting the importance of women’s organizations contribution to the societal development; creating conditions to developing and support new generation of young women and girl leaders; mobilizing resources to support strategic women’s initiatives in Russia.

Address:
2nd Roschinsky proezd, 8, suite405, Moscow
115419, Russia
Tel: +7 095 733 91 58
Fax: +7 095 737 61 43

E-mail: info@genderpolicy.ru
Internet: www.genderpolicy.ru
SERBIA
Reconstruction Women’s Fund

Reconstruction Women’s Fund is the first local women’s foundation in Serbia.
Mission: to support women’s emancipatory social and political role. Goals: to support women’s NGOs developing their programs from cumulative to public strategizing, to empower networking, cooperation and solidarity, to encourage programs on activists’ and theorists’ communication
Activities: grant-giving and strategic connection of compatible initiatives

Address:
Vlajkoviceva 15, 11000 Belgrade, Serbia
Tel: +381 11 324 13 99
Tel / Fax: + 381 11 3222 751

E-mail: office@rwfund.org
Internet: www.rwfund.org
SLOVAK REPUBLIC
Slovak-Czech Women’s Fund (SCWF)

Internet: www.womensfund.sk
For more details see: Czech Republic
UKRAINE
Ukrainian Women’s Fund (UWF)

UWF’s provides women’s organizations from Ukraine, Moldova and Belarus with financial, informational and consultation support. Our aim is to help women and women’s organizations to play an active role in the process of building gender democracy. We support the active participation of women and women’s organizations in the development of a just society that guarantees women’s rights, strengthens their role in community, and promotes women at all levels and in all fields. UWF realizes its goals through Fundraising/Donor education Program Support of women’s NGOs/Grants Program Information/Research Program

Address:
24b, Artema St., office 14, Kyiv, 04053, Ukraine
Tel: +38044 486 92 69
Fax +38044 486 61 39

E-mail: uwf@uwf.kiev.ua
Internet: www.uwf.kiev.ua


Similar problems, similar goals

ASSOCIATE MEMBERS/COUNTRY
LIAISONS

ALBANIA

Valdet Sala
e-mail: vsala@icc-al.org

ARMENIA

Armenuhi Tadevosyan
e-mail: armenuhi@osi.am

AZERBAIJAN

Ulviyya Mammadova
e-mail: umammadova@osi-az.org

ESTONIA

Selve Ringmaa
e-mail: selve@oef.org.ee

KYRGYZSTAN

Nurgul Asylbekova,
e-mail: anurgul@soros.kg

MONTENEGRO

Maja Lalic-Kovacevic
e-mail: mkovacevic@osim.cg.yu

TAJIKISTAN

Nargis Valamat-Zade
e-mail: n.valamat-zade@osi.tajik.net

Gulchehra Kabilova
e-mail: gulchehra.grc@osi.tajik.net

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