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The necessity of this project lays in the lack of coordination of women''s organizations in Romania in the strategic approach to gender equality, lack of financial and organizational resources, a coherent direction of monitoring and promoting changes at the policy level and lack of capacity to raise public awareness on the issues faced by women beneficiaries of NGO services. 21 NGOs members and Romanian Women''s Lobby (ROWL) will be supported through organizational development, strengthening the monitoring and advocacy role for women''s rights, gender equality and combating gender-based violence.
Project activities consist in AGORA feminist camps, national events and ROWL campaigns, local feminist solidarity events, lobby and advocacy in the gender budgeting and women in decision making 50/50 events, advocacy campaigns on issues related to the effects of economic migration on the transnational family, digitization, climate change from the perspective of gender equality in Romania using experts from Romania, Norway, Hungary, Poland and Bulgaria. Also there will be conducted an analysis of domestic violence and gender-based violence and held organizational development workshops to ROWL’s members NGOs.
Due to the project, there will be achieved a stronger and more active network and, at grassroots level it will be more aware women and civic involvement. The beneficiaries are ROWL member NGOs and umbrella organization, their beneficiaries and 1400 girls and women participating in activities at the local and national level, of which 20 Roma women. The partners participate with experts from Norway, Hungary, Bulgaria and Poland in activities that explore the transposing procedures relevant to Romania in terms of good practice in working with Women''s NGOs in order to contribute to the exchange of knowledge and find common tools to solve common problems.