The project is being implemented:
Project Description:
Its primary goal is to enhance women’s participation in societal processes, foster feminist perspectives, and combat discrimination. The project aims to create platforms for collaboration among women’s organizations, activists, and initiative groups working in the field of gender equality.
Project Goal
To establish fruitful cooperation among organizations, initiative groups, and activists working to combat discrimination against women, promote gender equality, and foster feminist views.
Project tasks:
- Supporting women’s/feminist organizations, particularly those representing vulnerable women and girls facing multiple discrimination, to improve governance and sustainability.
- Strengthening women’s organizations in planning and engaging supporters to promote gender equality in Ukraine.
- Enhancing the effectiveness of national and regional women’s/feminist platforms, networks, and coalitions in influencing gender-sensitive reforms and implementing gender-sensitive policies in Ukraine.
Key Activities of the Project
"Women’s Health Academy":
- Creating a space for open discussion of needs and receiving support and inspiration for life changes.
- Providing knowledge about stress and its effects on the body, developing personal stress management systems, learning five recovery skills, and discovering new strengths.
Coalition Building Training:
- Serving as a platform for exchanging experiences and ideas, emphasizing the importance of productive networking. Women’s movement activists from various regions of Ukraine work on coalition-building algorithms, identifying stakeholders, and assessing risks.
Meetings for Communications Specialists of Women’s Organizations:
- Sharing experiences on creating humanitarian and long-term projects, engaging with authorities and businesses, effectively communicating with audiences, protecting women’s rights in the digital sphere, and coordinating women’s organizations.
These activities took place in cities such as Rivne, Vinnytsia, Chernivtsi, Lviv, and Ternopil.
Project Beneficiaries
Women’s/feminist organizations, networks, and platforms advocating for the rights of women and girls, including those affected by conflict and internally displaced persons; women with disabilities; women of diverse sexual orientations and gender identities; Roma women and representatives of other national minorities; rural women; women with low incomes; and other vulnerable categories, including young and elderly women. In total, 347 individuals received support.
- Provided mentoring assistance in building institutional capacity.
- Trained on coalition and partnership building and mentoring.
- Facilitated the exchange of experiences and coordination among women’s/feminist organizations across all regions of Ukraine.
- Contributed to the analysis of the women’s/feminist movement and its participants.
Representatives of state authorities and local self-government participated in all project activities, including a meeting on "How to Create a Long-Term Project for Interaction Between Business, Community, and Society," focused on engaging authorities in implementing gender-sensitive changes and policies in Ukraine.
The Charity Fund "Health Solutions" aims to rethink the concept of health, making it accessible to all, regardless of their vulnerability status. We believe that a healthy and open democratic society is one where every woman's voice is heard. Our mission is to ensure equality, safety, and dignity for Ukrainian women through educational activities, training sessions, and webinars that enhance women’s capacity and awareness in various fields.
Project Impact
Over four years of project implementation, participants gained new knowledge and skills, strengthened their connections, and created a foundation for further cooperation. This enabled them to become more actively involved in socio-political processes in Ukraine.
The project significantly influenced human rights adherence and ensured non-discrimination and gender equality. It not only connected women from various fields of activity and influence but also strengthened their ties, provided opportunities for mutual learning, and highlighted the importance of their contributions to the process of achieving a victorious peace and recovery. Participation in project activities opened avenues for further collaboration and mutual assistance, creating a basis for ongoing efforts to strengthen women’s roles in society. Events fostered a trusting atmosphere that encouraged open expressions among participants and helped align a shared vision in an inclusive manner.
Partner organizations involved in the project:
- Ukrainian Women's Fund
- La Strada-Ukraine
- Office of the Ombudsman for Human Rights and Gender Issues
- VONA
- Legalife-Ukraine
- Positive Women
- Insight
- Association of Women-Councillors of Local Councils of Chernivtsi Region
- Charitable Organization "Positive Women"
- Public Organization "Women's Hub"
- Public Organization "Kiptivska Women's Union"
- Public Organization "Megasociom"
- Public Organization "Needed People"
- Public Organization "Synergy-Space"
- Public Organization "SuCPZh Workshop of Happiness"
- Public Organization "Teofipol Gender Council"
- Public Organization "Territory of Success"
- Public Organization "Ukrainian Womanhood"
- Public Organization "Gender Culture Center"
- Public Organization "Center for Supporting Public Initiatives 'Chayka'"
- Public Organization "Yari"
- Public Organization "VIS"
- Public Organization "Modern View"
- Public Organization "Territory of Success"
- Public Organization "Center of Joint Development 'Effective Community'"
- Public Organization "Center 'Chayka'"
- Ukrainian Association of Education Researchers
- Kherson Regional Center "Successful Woman"
- Center of Public Activism "Synergy"
- CSR "Effective Community"