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04.09.2009. 23:40:28

Project Young Women Can Do It comes to the end

Evaluation seminar of the project "Young Women Can Do It" was held in April in Opatija. The project is implemented in the cooperation with Norwegian Peoples Aid. Participants of the project are young women, members of 6 political parties and 8 NGO'a. On the seminar they have presented the local WCDI seminars and local actions implemented in period of 8 months.Through-outCroatia they have organized 15 WCDIseminars for over 150 women. The topics of the seminars were gender equality, women's human rights and women and power. Participants have also organized local actions in their local communities. They have informed citizens about women'shuman rights, women's health, violence against women and women's political participation. Norwegian trainer Ms. Rannei Mesloe also participated on seminar where she held a presentation about Norwegian experiences in achieving gender equality. Young women that participated in project have expressed their satisfaction with the project and have the strong determination to carry on with educational activities that promotes gender equality.