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Project: Establishment of gender mainstreaming in the work of media, government, police and courts.
Implementation Period: 2006 – 2007
Location: Macedonia, Albania, Bulgaria & Kosova
Target Group:Journalists, government policy makers, representatives of the local governments, police officers, judges and lawyers and experts from the NGO sector
Description of the Project:
The objectives of this project is to use the results of the analyses made in the previous BHNR projects about gender mainstreaming in the field of mass media, government authorities (national and local-government), police and court officials; in order to address women’s human rights and improve the position of women through organizing panel discussions with the profession target groups of journalists, government policy-makers, police and court officials which will discuss the results of the research and inform these professionals about gender mainstreaming in their work.
The project will consist of three phases. The first phase will be identifying the problems and making recommendations for the improvement of the position of women – women in media, women in local government and decision-making level, women victims of violence and trafficking. It will be done by a gender issues expert who will collect and analyze data from the relevant researches of the previous projects. The second phase will be organizing panel discussions for professional journalists, government policy makers, police, lawyers and judges in each of the implementation locations of Tirana, Prishtina, Sofia and Skopje. The third phase will be organizing a wider media campaign to raise awareness amongst the general public about women’s issues and how they are perceived in the media, in policy and victims of crime.
Donor: Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs