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The overall objective is to protect and empower vulnerable young women and enhance gender equality in the southern Kyrgyzstan, by ensuring an enabling environment for economic empowerment of vulnerable young women through their integration in innovative and creative industries sectors.
Target groups include young women aged between 18-35 encompassing the following vulnerable groups:
- Unemployed women and/or women with a low education level who enter the labour market for the first time without a prior vocational training
- Victims of violence against women
- Single mothers, mothers with many children representing ethnic minorities (Uzbek, Tajik and others)
- Women with disabilities • Women with many children and/or being on maternity leave
- Mothers with infants or pre-school children with no ability to travel outside the village due to marital status and/or childcare reasons • Women from poor households registered at aiyl okmotu (LSGB) and/or public employment centres repatriated from Syria and Iraq under measures of specific state programme
- Girls from madrasas (religious schools) and women from isolated religious communities in need of employment
- Rural women in difficult life situations
Main activities
- Capacity building: training/ coaching/ mentorship/ best practice sharing/ institutional building and networking
- Supporting ten start-up projects in creative industry (handicrafts, arts and crafts, tour guides, tourist entertainment, tourism route development)
- Providing marketing & PR support (certification of Sedep products such as souvenirs, tourism services and tour products); handicraft festivals, tourism forums, fairs, ethno-shows, and promotion of successful stories of young women as innovators and changemakers
- Legal capacity building and awareness-raising: legal training programme to enable target groups to monitor the implementation of international, national, and local policies on gender equality, legal and economic empowerment of women, subject-matter sectoral frameworks and local social-economic development programmes.
- Civil society monitoring: revealing existing gaps and restrictions in legislations and their implementation that hinder development of women’s social entrepreneurship incl. their integration in creative industry sector and legal and economic empowerment of women, preparation of analytical reports and policy briefs with relevant recommendations.
- Advocacy: initiating sessions to build dialogue between target groups and private sector to accelerate women employment, innovations, digital entrepreneurship, and nurture creative ecosystem; public and budget hearings focused on economic and legal empowerment of women and enhancement of gender equality; and advocacy activities for addressing the gaps in implementation of gender-related local/national policies and international commitments.
Duration: 01/03/2024 – 31/08/2026 (30 months)
Location/s: Kyrgyzstan (10 pilot locations incl. 3 towns and 7 ayil aimaks (AA) from Osh region (Osh town, Kyrgyz-Ata AA (Nookat rayon), Halle–Anarov AA (Aravan rayon); Djalal-Abad region: Djalal-Abad town, Sary-Bulun AA (Toguz-Toro rayon), Ketmen-Tobo AA (Toktogul rayon), Arstanbap AA (Bazar-Korgon rayon). Suzak AA (Suzak rayon); Batken region: Kyzyl-Kiya town, Kulundu AA (Leilek rayon).
Implementing Partners
Women’s Peace Bank (Osh, Kyrgyzstan)
Pro NGO! e. V. (Koeln, Germany)
Further information
instagram.com/womens.peace.bank
facebook.com/pfwomenspeacebank
Contacts:
Hans Born, Chairman
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Begayim Sharsheeva, Project Coordinator
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The overall objective of the project is to promote Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and Creating Shared Values (CSV) for private sector-civil society organisations (CSOs) cooperation toward achieving sustainable development goals (SDGs), by establishing an effective cooperation mechanism between business sector and CSOs in Vietnam.
The project is implemented by the Institute for Research on Development Communication (RED) – lead organisation (Vietnam) and Pro NGO! e.V. (Germany).
The project is co-funded by the Delegation of the European Union to Vietnam.
The project lasts in 42 months, from 1 September 2020 to 29 February 2024.
The specific objectives of the project are:
- Enhancing the capacity of CSOs and enterprises in Vietnam with a focus on collaborative CSR and CSV projects toward achieving SDGs
- Establishing an effective cooperation mechanism (including tools, instruments and training courses to improve mutual understanding between business sector and CSOs in Vietnam with the goal of implementing CSR and CSV actions related to the SDGs
- Raising Awareness to promote the trend of collaborating in CSR and CSV projects toward achieving SDGs to the benefit of Vietnamese society.
Expected results
- Development of tools and instruments that enable an effective cooperation mechanism between corporate sector and CSOs in implementing CSR and CSV projects toward achieving SDGs is operated and maintained by a coordination board;
- 200 Vietnamese CSOs have the capacity to design and cooperate with enterprises in implementing CSR/CSV projects which meet the SDGs;
- 300 enterprises and 200 Vietnamese CSOs understand the importance and effectiveness of CSR/ CSV related to SDGs trend;
- Improved capacities and know-how in project design and management thanks to 10 sub-grants from the project for 10 small Vietnamese CSOs (max. 10,000€/grant);
- 30 CSR/CSV projects between enterprises and CSOs focusing on one or more of the selected SDGs implemented during the project implementation;
- The cooperation mechanism between enterprises and CSOs established and maintained;
- SDGs become well-known and widespread across Vietnamese Society.
For further details and updates about the project, please visit the following websites:
https://csvhub.vn/
https://www.facebook.com/csvhub.vn
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Interview of Dr. Lothar Rieth for VTC - Vietnam Digital Television:
Working title of the project “Open communities – open media”
Brief description:
The project supported promotion of freedoms and protection of human rights through the formation and maintenance of a free information space, freedom of speech and expression in Kyrgyzstan.
It promoted:
- free expression of various opinions on problems in society and public policy through increasing the media literacy of public councils at local and national levels;
- fulfilment of the right of access to information and to the activities of accountable state bodies and institutions through a targeted media programme;
- improvement of inter-sectoral dialogue promoting free exchange of ideas, opinions, and information to allow members of society to form their own opinions on issues of public importance.
Success stories placed on EUD YouTube channel:
Brief information on key activities:
The project started with an assessment and analysis of the capacity gaps/needs assessment of target groups - right holders and duty-bearers – central and local authorities.
Interaction of local and state bodies with the media in the context of maintaining a free information space, freedom of speech and expression in Kyrgyzstan was supported by organising public platforms in the regions, with the participation of public councils, civil society activists and government officials and journalists.
To interest and involve media experts in the project, local and national competitions for journalists and public councils were organised.
Live broadcasts with the participation of the Ombudsman, legal specialists and other experts were organised with the aim that appeals of citizens on infringement upon their rights and injustice could be promptly responded and legal advice provided.
The project provided mini-grants to Public Councils working in partnership with media (country-wide), training manuals, guides on human rights protection for vulnerable groups, information brochures, videos, reels and other publications produced in Kyrgyz and Russian languages.
Main project results include:
- Over 500 members of Small Public Councils (in regions) and activists from all oblasts, participated in 35 meetings, and collected 51adopted decisions.
- Over 200 journalists from different types of media (online, print, TV/radio etc.) strengthened their capacity in forming quality news from regional and open data, digital literacy in the context of pandemic, social media and human rights, effective interaction between NGOs and the media, and in understanding the concept of discrimination, it forms and types, how to identify and distinguish between direct and indirect discrimination, and the concepts such as stereotype, prejudice, and stigma.
- The project organised 26 live broadcasts with participation of the Ombudsman and legal specialists, prepared 28 special reports from Kyrgyz regions, placed on public television and radio broadcasting channels, placed 15 Ombudsman plots on TV channels, conducted 2 competitions for journalists and public councils at national level, implemented 8 mini-grant (covering all regions of the country) to achieve intersectoral partnerships and to encourage local activists to promote and protect human rights, especially freedom of speech and expression.
- To reach as many as possible interested citizens, the project shared news and information through the partners’ websites, created pages in social networks such as Facebook, Instagram and YouTube, to which all citizens could actively contribute, or find up-to date information (over 500.000 reaches).
Duration: 01/11/2019 – 31/12/2021 (26 months)
Location/s: Kyrgyzstan (country-wide)
Implementing Partners: Resource Center for Elderly (Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan), Generation 21 (Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan), Gustav-Stresemann-Institut (Bonn, Germany) and Pro NGO! e. V. (Koeln, Germany)
For further information please refer to
www.gsi-projects.eu
https://www.facebook.com/rce.kg/
https://www.facebook.com/923324101176608/posts/1624115887764089.
Strengthening capacities of local communities in their actions towards poverty reduction (2014-2016)
The overall objective of this project is to achieve sustainable human livelihoods in rural areas in southern Kyrgyzstan.
We aim to
- introduce innovative and sustainable approaches for better long run life of smallholder farmers through identification and sharing of best practices