Activity report for 1999(PDF) - Soros Foundation Moldova

cancer and anti-violence campaign; setting up a prize
for the best journalists who are writing about women’s
problems. At the end of 1999 the Club changed its statute
and was registered as a non-governmental organisation.
The Club will continue its activity by publishing
the bulletin and organising monthly meetings. Project
director Lidia BOBÎNA, reporter at the National Radio
$ 8,150
Competition for the mass media representatives
writing on female issues
The winners were:
Viorica CUCEREANU-BOGATU – first prize (200
USD), Teleradio-Moldova State Company
Larisa UNGUREANU – second prize (150 USD), editor-in-
chief of Lanterna Magica (newspaper)
Liuba CATRINICI – third prize (75 USD), editor-inchief
of Cuvîntul (newspaper) from Rezina
Alina SLONINOV, third prize (75 USD), journalist
at the Radio Moldova International
Book Translation and Publishing
Sexual Policies and the European Union, The
New Feminist Challenge, R. Amy Elman, Tehnica-info
Publishing House, director A. MARIN
Our Bodies, Ourselves for the New Century: A
Book by and for Women, Boston Women’s Health
Book Collective, Litera Publishing House, director Anatol
VIDRAØCU
Sacrificing Ourselves for Love, Boston Women’s
Book Collective, Museum Publishing House,
director Iurie COLESNIC. (Matching funds project with
Network Translation Program, OSI, Budapest).
Women’s Program Administration Expenditures
$ 9,070
Women’s Program Expenditures $ 75,584
Total $ 84,654
CIVIL SOCIETY
The Civil Society Program fosters the essential
norms of a civil society: individual rights, free association,
the opening of public and private sectors, legality,
options, initiative, as well as supporting the creation of
mechanisms for social control and influence over the
1999 ACTIVITY REPORT
state and its institutions. The projects performed in
1999 aimed to support Moldovan NGOs' activity, as
well as establishing contacts between them and various
foreign institutions. Supported projects were to respond
to certain community needs, be innovative, provide
models, and contribute to the promotion of NGO activity
and citizen involvement.
Open Competition for NGO Projects
Support
Support for Social and Psychological Training
and Assistance Center for Big Families
Future NGO, Bælfli, project director Svetlana RÎJICO-
VA
The resource center situated in Bælfli provides consulting
to social workers, teachers, and psychologists
working with families with many children.
(Co-financed by UNICEF)
$ 1,442
International Seminar: The Human Right to a
Fair Trial
Helsinki Committee for Human Rights, Valentina
ODAGIU
The goals of the seminar were: to promote human
rights international standards, to support the dialogue
between the representatives of state institutions and
human rights advocates from the non-governmental
sector. Participants: judges, public officers, policemen,
NGOs activists.
(Co-financing: International Helsinki Federation –
1,511USD)
$ 2,267
Publishing of the Economic Courier Weekly
Newsletter
The Association of the Economists from Moldova,
project director Didina fiÆRUØ
The Economic Courier is an economic publication
in Romanian, that discusses a variety of issues including
structural reforms, capital market, budgetary policy,
agricultural privatization, local government reform, etc.
$ 5,001.63
Monthly Seminar on National Economic
Reform
The Representation of the International Union of
the Economists in Moldova, project director Mihai
PATRAØ
The seminar has been organized since March in the
World Bank office. The goal of the seminar is to discuss
the current bank, financial, international trade and
other issues regarding the economy of Moldova.
Professionals from Moldova representing the public sector
and international organizations that work in
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