Activity report for 1999(PDF) - Soros Foundation Moldova

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SOROS FOUNDATION MOLDOVA
Training seminar for NGO leaders dealing actively
with women’s problems: Women in a World Modelled
by Men, December 11—13, 1999, facilitator Virginia
Kalinauskiene, senior specialist at the Psychological
Centre from Vilnius, project director Igor FONARI,
Noosfera
$ 1,500
Participation at the scientific conference: Gender
relations in Russia: past, present and future, Ivanovo,
May 17-21, 1999, Galina PRECUP and Maia MORÆRES-
CU
$ 542
Participation at the Summer School: Gender
research and feminist theories: dialogue between East
and West, September 12 – October 3 1999, Foros, Crimea,
Victoria MELNIC, university teacher, State University
of Arts, Iulian CIOCAN, university teacher, State
Pedagogical University
$ 200
Participation at a university course in gender studies,
December 16-18, 1999, Odesa, Alina CIOBANU,
Angela BRAØOVEANU, Zinaida BOLEA
$ 168
Translation into Romanian and publishing of
Gender Directory, Arc Publishing House. (Matching
fund project with NWP)
$ 1,439
Elimination of Violence Against Women
Program’s aim is to support centres providing
assistance and shelter to victims of violence, as well as
medical, psychological and legal services to women
who suffered from both domestic and social violence; to
train police officers on how to deal with cases of violence;
to raise public awareness of domestic violence
elimination.
Support for the Activity of the Crisis Centre to
establish a shelter for battered women and set up a hot
line telephone, March 1999 – March 2000, Women
Today NGO, project director Liuba URÎTU
$ 8,919
Support for the activity of the Crisis Centre to
establish a shelter for battered women and set up a hot
line telephone, Association of Women with University
Degree NGO, Bælfli, project director Silvia CHETRARI
$ 8,919
Three training sessions for volunteers working on
the hot-line at the Crisis Centre from Bælfli, project director
Silvia CHETRARI, Association of Women with
University Degree NGO from Bælfli. (Matching funds
project with NWP and Annimus Centre from Bulgaria)
$ 1,682
Training lawyers and NGO leaders from the
Læpuøna county to eliminate domestic violence, project
director Melania MIHAILOV, Youth Development Centre.
(Matching funds project with NWP)
$ 6,705
Participation of the national team members in the
training within the Women Friendly Response to
Violence Against Women Project, Budapest, June 1999,
project director Svetlana FILINCOV, judge
$ 440
Ten training sessions on primary intervention in
case of domestic violence for policemen from Chiøinæu,
January 1, 1999 – November 1, 2000, Chiøinæu, project
director Mihai LUPU, Community Partners NGO
$ 5,994
Informational Initiatives
Program’s aim is to promote and protect feminist
values, strengthening of family, raise general awareness
of women’s problems and women’s rights, to promote
issues on women’s health.
National Information and Documentation Centre
for Women, project director Galina PRECUP. Matching
funds project with American Bar Association, UNICEF
and N. Testemifleanu State Medical and Pharmaceutical
University
The objectives of the Center are:
– to disseminate information in mass media about
the Centre’s activities, as well as among the NGOs
active on women’s problems
– to provide technical assistance to women’s NGOs
– to develop and up-date the database containing
information on women’s organisations from the
Republic of Moldova
$ 13,960
Training on project design and administration for
leaders of Women’s NGOs, members of the Women’s
Organisations Forum. Project implemented by CONTACT
Center, June, 2000
$ 450
Women and Mass Media
Ten Plus Women’s Journalists Club. The Club has
monthly meetings where decision making persons dealing
with problems concerning women are invited. Other
activities include: publishing of the Ten Plus bulletin
(four issues); initiating and supporting the anti-breast