The Kosovo Women’s Network (KWN)is pleased to officially announce that on 12 Nov. and 10 Dec., for the first time, we signed two contracts with the European Union (EU) Office in Kosovo.
The two-year “Strengthening Women-led Civil Society Organizations in Kosovo” Initiative is set to begin on 1 Jan. 2015 and to continue through 31 Dec. 2016. The purpose of the project is to strengthen local civil society organizations’ (CSOs) capacities; increase participation; and improve quality of input in decision and policy making processes at the local level.
Through this initiative, KWN will achieve the following expected results:
- KWN members will be better able to plan, fundraise for, and undertake effective advocacy initiatives at the local level;
- KWN members will involve more women in decision-making processes, particularly in rural areas and from minority or marginalized groups.
KWN will achieve these aims through interactive workshops and individualized mentoring for its members; bimonthly meetings; transparently distributing at least 25 grants to women-led CSOs amounting to €100,000; networking; awareness-raising; and advocacy.
While the second initiative "Strengthening the role of women in civil society organizations in promoting women’s rights and participation in political" will start on 1 January 2016 and will continue until December 31, 2017.
Through this initiative, KWN will achieve the following expected results:
- Diverse women and girls’ participation and representation in politics and decision-making at municipal and national levels increased.
- Women-led organizations better able to plan, fundraise for, network towards, and undertake effective advocacy initiatives towards women’s and girls’ human rights and participation in decision-making at municipal and national levels via the KWF.
- KWL strengthened to plan, network towards, and undertake effective advocacy initiatives at municipal and national levels.
- More meetings between women/girls and policy-makers.
- More and better informed media coverage of issues important to women.
KWN will achieve these aims through interactive workshops and individualized mentoring for its members; bimonthly meetings; transparently distributing at least 21 grants to women-led CSOs amounting to €104,000; networking; awareness-raising; and advocacy.
The EU’s support will be crucial in contributing to the implementation of KWN’s recently adopted Strategy for 2015-2018.
