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17. Women's Program Coordinators of the Open Society Institute-Network Women's Program

Open Society Foundation - Albania
Valdete Sala

OSI Assistance Foundation - Armenia
Anaida Allakhverdyan

Open Society Institute - Azerbaijan
Gulnara Mamedova

Open Society Fund - Sarajevo (Bosnia & Herzegovina)
Nada Ler Sofronic

Open Society Fund - Sofia (Bulgaria)
Tatyana Kmetova

Open Society Institute - Croatia
Danica Eterovic and Natasa Janev

Open Society Fund - Prague (Czech Republic)
Monika Vlkova

Open Society Foundation - Georgia
Elene Nakashidze

Soros Foundation - Kazakhstan
Zhanna Zhanabekova

Soros Foundation - Kyrgyzstan
Elmira Shishkaraeva

Kosovo Foundation for an Open Society
Luljeta Vuniqi

Soros Foundation - Latvia
Angelita Kamenska

Soros Foundation - Lithuania
Vilija Geciene

Open Society Institute - Macedonia
Marija Savoska

Soros Foundation - Moldova
Antonina Sarbu

Open Society Institute - Mongolia
Odon Darjaa

Open Society Institute - Montenegro
Bilijana Maslovaric

Stefan Batory Foundation (Poland)
Dagmara Baraniewska and Anna Stalewska

Foundation for an Open Society - Romania
Roxana Tesiu Paraschiv

Open Society Institute - Russia
Elena Kotchkina, Larisa Fedorova, Nelli Utesheva and Marina Vlasova

Open Society Foundation - Slovakia
Viera Klementova

Open Society Institute - Slovenia
Suzana Tratnik and Lilijana Vucenovic

Open Society Institute - Tajikistan
Tatiana Abdushukurova

International Renaissance Foundation - Kiev (Ukraine)
Natalia Karbowska

Open Society Institute - Uzbekistan
Nigora Yuldasheva

Fund for an Open Society - Yugoslavia
Jandranka Stojanovic, Slavica Stojanovic and Zordna Sijacki


18. Strategic Initiatives of the Network Women's Program

NWP Community and Partnerships
Open societies cannot exist without accountability for gender equity and respect for diversity. NWP promotes the development of inclusive programming in the OSI network. By working with OSI national foundations and network programs, as well as international women's groups and funders, NWP seeks to increase women's programming internally and at the local, national, regional, and international levels.

Violence Against Women
Hidden before transition, violence against women, one of the key social mechanisms for maintaining women's inequality, has now become a public issue. Through international trainings and co-funding with OSI national foundations, NWP supports the development of sustainable women's NGOs responding to the multi-faceted problem of violence against women.

Women's Health
Due to lack of resources, availability, and access to quality medical services, women are not receiving the care they need for their general and gender-specific medical concerns from national and private medical systems. To create greater awareness of women's health issues, NWP and participating national foundations support educational and research-oriented health programs for women.

Information and Documentation
Exchanging information and developing collaborative projects between the Soros foundation network and women's organizations internationally is essential to addressing the diverse needs of women. The NWP promotes information exchange and collaboration by encouraging initiation, support, and linkage of national women's information centers.

Romani Women
Roma people in Europe continue to experience prejudice, discrimination, and violence. The NWP supports multiple approaches to empowering Roma women in the region. Working with Roma colleagues, NWP supports efforts to build Roma women's leadership and to increase Roma women's access to OSI resources and to international legislation, funding, and activities related to Roma and women.

Women and Conflict
Women continue to suffer enormously in gender-specific ways as a result of civil wars in the OSI region. Systematic rape, forced pregnancy and forced abortions, under the policies of ethnic cleansing, have become the most egregious violations of women's human rights. The NWP aims to build upon existing analysis and efforts in the areas of conflict prevention and women in post-conflict processes, while supporting the OSI network's efforts to make national and regional interventions.

Women's Participation in Public Life
In the post-soviet era, most countries in the OSI network saw a sharp decrease in the representation of women in national parliaments and leadership positions. As a result of the failure of new democracies to integrate more than half of the population in policymaking processes, almost all proposed and adopted reforms have been gender biased. To challenge these biases, NWP supports the development of women leaders and advocates at local, national, regional, and international levels.

Women and Education
Education, which supports the introduction and exchange of new ideas, is integral to the development of open societies. Women and girls must have diverse opportunities to formulate their ideas, participate equally in the conceptualization of their societies, and develop skills and knowledge needed to join critical conversations about the future. While advocating for gender-aware systemic change through educational reform processes in the OSI network, the NWP encourages the development of independent teaching and research on women, including gender studies.


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