Bending the Bow: Targeting Women's Human Rights and Opportunities
(A publication of the Open Society Institute's Network Women's Program, August 2002)

Acknowledgments

The patience, commitment, and collaboration of the Network Women's Program staff and OSI Communications staff enabled Bending the Bow to come together. We thank NWP's Phoebe Schreiner, Debra Schultz, and Marla Swanson, and Communications staff Ari Korpivaara, William Kramer, and Sarah Miller-Davenport for helping to illuminate the first years of NWP's work. We also thank editorial consultant Karen Judd.

We are grateful for the contributions of publication designer Jeanne Criscola and many extraordinary photographers: Erkin Boldjurov, Jason Eskenazi, Jacqueline Mia Foster, League for Family, Momir Matovic, Kimberly Middleton, Marianna Mlynarcikova, Serhiy Nechay, Urszula Nowakowska, Vesna Pavlovic, Gueorgui Pinkhassov/Magnum, Podrugi, Raikhan Sabirova, Jeremy Sutton-Hibbert, Tonu Tamm, Andrew Testa, Martynas Vidzbelis, Beka Vuco, and AP/Wide World Photos.

NWP extends our gratitude to consultants Betsy Brill and Judith Musick of Strategic Philanthropy, Inc., who inspired and challenged NWP staff and the Women's Program coordinators to document, evaluate, and share our work through the Documentation and Evaluation project. We also thank Strategic Philanthropy staff Brenda Givens and Courtney L. Hester.

The Women's Program coordinators of the Soros foundations network have brought to life much of the work described in this publication with their commitment, energy, and expertise.

None of this would have been possible without the leadership and vision of NWP's Anastasia Posadskaya-Vanderbeck, Debra Schultz, and Eva Foldvari.

We would also like to acknowledge the dedication of current and former NWP staff members, including: (current) Gabriella Kiss, Kimberly Middleton, Nikki Persley, Anna Rapolti, Phoebe Schreiner, and Marla Swanson; (former) Emma Bell, Kate Blumenreich, Charity Fain, Julie Hayes, Raikhan Sabirova, and Pamela Shifman.

This publication also reflects the findings of the local Soros foundations Documentation & Evaluation Project research consultants: Iris Luarasi (Albania), Anna Voskanyan (Armenia), Larissa Lemberanskaya (Azerbaijan), Seida Saric (Bosnia and Herzegovina), Antonina Kostadinova Stoyanovska (Bulgaria), Mirjana Radakovic (Croatia), Madeleine Kelly (Czech Republic), Selve Ringmaa (Estonia), Rusudan Mkheidze (Georgia), Svetlana Shakirova (Kazakhstan), Vjollca Krasniqi (Kosovo), Zumrat Salmorbekova (Kyrgyzstan), Meilute Taljunaite (Lithuania), Biljana Bejkova (Macedonia), Adela Scutaru (Moldova), Tuul Sanjdorj (Mongolia), Anica Boljevic (Montenegro), Joanna Jurek (Poland), Florentina Bocioc (Romania), Olga Klyushkina (Russia), Adriana Trnavska (Slovakia), Natalia Bruker (Tajikistan), Tetyana Goryacha (Ukraine), and Svenka Savic (Yugoslavia).

We would like to acknowledge NWP's Interim Advisory Board members, who provided invaluable support during NWP's initial phase of program development: Dagmara Baraniewska, Antonia Burrows, Eva Foldvari, Sonja Licht, Dimitrina Petrova, Joanna Regulska, Mindy Jane Roseman, Valdete Sala, Kim Lane Schepelle, Debra L. Schultz (who joined the staff as deputy director in January 1998), Ann Snitow, and Violeta Zentai.

NWP's achievements would also not have been possible without an outstanding group of partnership organizations. These include Women, Law and Development, International; Duluth Domestic Abuse Intervention Project; Global Survival Network; Women's Information and Consultative Center; Zenska Infoteka; Belgrade Center for Women's Studies; Romani Criss; the Roma Center of Skopje; and many individual consultants and collaborators.