NGO News | Women plus

Seminar on intangible cultural heritage “Protection of ICH: listing”

06.09.22

NGO WOMEN plus took part in a seminar on intangible cultural heritage issues on the topic “ICH Protection: Listing”. How to work with the nomination file and draw up documents? Why is the opinion of the community important when preparing a nomination? Why is it important to draw up an element protection plan? What are the criteria for evaluation and consideration of the nomination file? What is a conflict of interest and why is it important to mention it? What to do when the distribution area of an element covers several communities? This and much more was discussed during the event. The seminar united online more than 50 participants from different regio...

“Women plus” + Riga City Council

29.08.22

“Women Plus” + Riga City Council. We continue to establish ties with our colleagues in different countries of the world. The member of our NGO Viktoriia Oreshyna met with the head of the Sports and Youth Administration of the Department of Education, Culture and Sports of the Riga City Council Dina Viksna, the manager of the department’s educational programs Inga Sidorchyk-Bobovych and the head of the Department of Education and Professional Sports Iryna Yakobson. Latvia has the highest percentage of gender equality among the Baltic countries and the highest level of influence of women on the formation of public policy. They talked about the projects ...

Support for Women in Politics

17.08.22

“Supporting women in politics.” NGO WOMEN plus joined this project, which is implemented in Ukraine by the Konrad Adenauer Foundation and EAF Berlin and acts as a kind of “portal” for establishing direct contacts between Ukrainian politicians and Germany and other European countries. For us, this is an opportunity to gain new skills for the implementation of social projects. Today, the first online meeting of project participants took place – 32 participants, representatives of Eastern and Central-Eastern Ukraine: deputies, representatives of public organizations, authorities at all levels, in particular, the Ministry of Statistics, volunt...

Trouble unites people

16.08.22

Ukrainians have a good proverb “Trouble unites people.” We are peaceful, hardworking and friendly. But when disaster strikes our land, we become one. During the trials that befell our country, we learned to combine our professional activities with volunteering. We unite to help those who need it. Among our colleagues are representatives of various professions, and all of us, united, created a kind of action centers. Our athletes hold competitions and training sessions for immigrant children. Cultural workers organize children’s creative workshops and weave camouflage nets. Educators make pies and dumplings so that the soldiers do not forget the taste ...

Members of the Women’s Entrepreneurship Support Committee – done ✅

12.08.22

Joined the founding meeting of the Women’s Entrepreneurship Support Committee at the Dnipropetrovsk Chamber of Commerce and Industry (Dnipro, Ukraine). The committee is created within the framework of the Ukrainian-Italian twinning project EUKRAINE – WOMEN UptaKing ruRAL Business and is implemented by the Dnipropetrovsk Chamber of Commerce and Industry together with Confartigianato Salerno. The project is aimed at promoting the development of foreign economic relations, providing practical assistance to regional entrepreneurs, as well as the interaction of business entities and coordination of their relations with local and national authorities. Aimed at ac...