Activity report for 1999(PDF) - Soros Foundation Moldova

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SOROS FOUNDATION MOLDOVA
– In December, seminars with the topic: Methodology
and the New Forms of Teaching in Institutions
Training Magistrates were organised.
$ 70,000
Law Program Administration Expenditures $ 8,837
Law Program Expenditures $ 322,263
Total Law Program Expenditures $ 341,100
STREET LAW
In 1999 SIEDO, the NGO implementing the Street
Law Program (SL), ran the following activities:
– training of SIEDO team and the other SL authors,
15 teachers educational administrators and lawyers, in
workshops and visit studies in Moldova and abroad
– development of the syllabus, textbooks for 10th,
11th and 12th grades and teacher's guide
– publishing of these materials (syllabus – 1500
copies, the 10th grade manual – 250 copies, the 11th
grade manual – 300 copies and the 12th grade manual
– 200 copies)
– negotiation of the statute of the new subject: the
Ministry of Education accepted the field-testing of the
syllabus and manuals during this school year and is
going to introduce it as a compulsory subject for high
schools beginning with September 2000
– training of pilot teachers (those who are to teach
the new subject, a peer of each of them and the principals
of their schools)
– field-testing of the new subject in 4 high schools
in Moldova: ªtefan Vodã, Grozeºti, Criuleni and
Chiºinãu
– training of trainers who will implement the new
subject at the national level (14 teachers including
those who will field-test the manuals in the second
year of the process, i.e. 2000-2001
– training of some students from the Pedagogical
Faculty in Chiºinãu in order to be able to teach the new
subject when it becomes mandatory for the high school
level
Program expenditures $ 46,036
WOMEN’S PROGRAM
In the second year of functioning, the activities
implemented in the framework of Women’s Program
aimed to promote women’s rights in obtaining a social,
economical, political status, equal to men’s status. All
the activities and the program as a whole were an
intrinsic continuation of the initiatives launched in
1998. We also implemented new programs such as:
Introduction of Gender Studies in the University
Curriculum, (SPU), founding and supporting of a Club
for Teenage Girls; the implementation of a new project
for socially vulnerable women in Væsieni, Chiøinæu
county – a project developed and implemented by the
Union of Handicrafts Artists. Generally, programs
which had been initiated earlier and had had a positive
impact in society were supported: focused on improving
women’s health, eliminating violence against women,
eliminating traffic of women and children; supporting
programs for women-journalists who are writing on
female issues; increasing the capability of women’s
NGOs in solving social and economic problems; development
of strategic programs related to gender equality;
promoting and developing new interpersonal relationship
models; creating possibilities for women from
Moldova to participate in international initiatives.
Improving Women’s Health
This Program was addressed to NGOs dealing
actively with women’s problems and having the main
purpose improving women’s health. The program supported
a national project on breast cancer, a disease
which in the past few years has affected a large number
of women between the age of 40-45. Because of the
lack of money, women cannot afford to screen themselves,
thus the goal was to initiate projects for the prevention,
diagnosis and treatment of breast cancer; to
support educational programs for women aiming at the
development of a proactive attitude towards their own
health.
Projects implemented in 1999:
Active identification of pre-cancerous and malignant
tumours in women
Project’s aim: to organise and implement clinicalinstrumental
screening of women in order to identify
pre-cancerous tumours in reproductive organs. 1300
women from two villages, Rezeni and Cegîrleni were
tested.
Association of Breast Cancer Doctors NGO, project
director Nadejda GODOROJA.
$ 7,340