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On going
projects
1.
“Counseling Center for Unemployed Women”, financed by Swiss
Agency for Development and Cooperation – project part of the
program ‘Labor market issues’
Second mandate: January 2003 – December 2005
Goal:
To diminish the exclusion of unemployed women by supporting them
to successfully integrate/reintegrate on the labor market
 Target group
400 unemployed women from Iasi
Objectives:
• To develop unemployed women’s
personal abilities in order to identify and obtain a job
• To improve target group’s level
of information regarding legal conditions of employment
Project activities:
• Psychological counseling
• Training in order to gain
abilities for searching and maintaining a job
• Orientation for planning and
developing personal career
• Contacting local companies to
identify job vacancies
• Job mediation and permanent
collaboration with local companies
• Interview simulation
• Informative sessions regarding
specific legislation for employers and employees
• Support in solving particular
cases of labor rights violations
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2. Women@Work NET,
financed by Socrates, Grundtvig 2. Pro WOMEN foundation is
partner in this project implemented by European Contact Group –
Czech Republic together with other 3 organizations : Community
Connections – United Kingdom, Vilnius Trade Union ‘Solidarumas’
– Lithuania and Bridge to Life – Czech Republic, July 2004 –
July 2005 ( second year)
Objectives
• Developing new training
materials
• Training the trainers
• Disseminating results and
outcomes of mutual work
• Learning by practical experience
and encounters
All partners are engaged with learning and training activities,
empowerment as well as work with disadvantaged women (e.g.
unemployed women, discriminated women, women working under
precarious working conditions, young women with no working
experience, trafficked women, teenage mothers, women from
disadvantaged regions etc.).
Planned activities
September 2004 Prague, Czech Republic
- Evaluation and planning meeting. Evaluation of the Iasi
seminar and planning for the training workshop in Vilnius,
Lithuania.
December 2004 – Vilnius, Lithuania –Workshop. A workshop which
will involve local grassroots groups of women home based and
informal workers as well as unemployed women. There will be a
special effort to involve women from remote areas and
countryside. EKS fundraised additional funds for this workshop
(5000 € from private resources), which enables us to involve
more participants, particularly from the Baltic region. It will
also help building new partnerships in Estonia, Latvia and
Kaliningrad area and empower the Lithuanian partner organization
and its future networking.
The workshop will be focused on training in different topics
such as: motivation skills, community building, leadership
skills and practical skills for work with groups of unemployed
and disadvantaged women. It will also include visits to the with
local projects and women groups in Lithuania and planning and
development meetings of co-ordination team.
March 2005, Great Yarmouth UK
- Evaluation and strategy meeting. It will evaluate workshop in
Vilnius. It will also concentrate on recapitulation of the
previous developments and create a strategy for sustainability
of the network after the end of funding period according to the
needs and expectations of the partners.
July 2005, Great Yarmouth UK
- Final evaluation meeting. It will evaluate the overall
project. External evaluator will be invited and final report
will be prepared. Strategy for the future development will be
finalized and confirmed and tasks divided among the partners.
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3. Social Integration
Center for Teen Mothers (CISMA), financed by European Union
PHARE Program, Social Access Program, December 2003 – August
2004
Goal
 Initiating a social inclusion center for teen mothers or future
mothers to provide a large range of social services in order to
reduce the risks they are exposed to
Target group
40 teen mothers aged 16 to 20, having children (0 to 2 years
old) or teenagers pregnant
Objectives
• To train the projects personnel
on Phare projects management and other necessary activities for
organization development
• To offer assistance and
supportive services in order to reduce the risk of being on the
edge of the society, for single teen mothers
• To offer complex educational
services in order to prevent situations of risks to which the
target group is exposed
• To facilitate the integration on
labour market by consultancy, professional orientation and job
mediation services
 Estimated results
• 75% of teen mothers will be
reintegrated (in families of origin or other supportive groups)
• 80% of the target group will
improve their level of information and orientation in solving
different problems they are facing
• 70 % of the teen-ager mothers who
don’t have a job will be able to identify their professional
abilities and to plan their career; 50 % of them will find a job
• initiating and developing 5
supportive and mutual help groups
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4. Resources,
Information and Support for Graduates Transition to Workplace
Centre, financed by Creative Associates Inc.; Main applicant:
Social Alternatives Association, Iasi, subcontractant : Pro
WOMEN Foundation, Iasi, November 2003 – August 2004
Main goal of the programme
Reduce Child Labor, Sexual Exploitation and Trafficking of
Children in Suceava and Botosani counties, Romania
Specific goal of Pro WOMEN
Raising the degree of social and
professional integration for vulnerable youth in the counties of
Suceava and Botosani.
Target group
Approx. 5.000 tineri (age 16 to 18), students in the last two
years of highschool or of vocational school, coming from
vulnerable families or placement centers
Expected results
• Social integration of at least
50% of the group of children from every county (based on the
integration criteria yet to be established)
• Professional integration of at
least 40% of the graduating children (on a proper workplace)
• Raising the self-esteem and the
community integration level for at least 80%of the vulnerable
children in the project
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5. cARTier, financed
by Swiss Cultural Programme, PARTNERS: Vector Cultural
Association, The City Council of Iasi, local partners in the
district of Tatarasi, 2004 – 2006. Pro WOMEN Foundation plays
the role of the coach
Main goal
To create a community cultural space in Tatarasi, as a place for
rebuilding social relationships and recreating public space.
Specific objectives
• Energizing
neighbourhood inhabitants for project implementation
• The
inhabitants’ active implication in the social life of Tatarasi
• Organizing
together with the inhabitants of the neighbourhood periodical
cultural and social events
• Changing
the visual-esthetical aspect of the esplanade of Tatarasi
•
Organizational development for Vector Association for Culture
Target group
cARTier project’s beneficiaries are the inhabitants of the
district of Tatarasi in Iasi. According to the sociological
study reminded above, the population of the neighbourhood is
represented by two main age categories:
• the aged (retired, an important
part of them of middle and high education, manifesting
receptivity – according to the poll – to cultural projects with
a nuance of novelty for the area in question).
• the children and the young people
(who represent a main target group for the projects on the
Tatarasi esplanade, according to the opinions expressed)
Objectives
• To train the projects personnel
on Phare projects management and other necessary activities for
organization development
• To offer assistance and
supportive services in order to reduce the risk of being on the
edge of the society, for single teen mothers
• To offer complex educational
services in order to prevent situations of risks to which the
target group is exposed
• To facilitate the integration on
labour market by consultancy, professional orientation and job
mediation services
Target groups
A. Direct benefficiaries:
• Groups for initiative( a group of
25 children, pupils in no.10 school, 10 teens from highschool «
Al. I.Cuza », 15 middle aged people, both students and persons
acting on the labor market and 20 elder people
• Tatarasi neighbourhood
inhabitants
B. Indirect beneficiaries:
• local commnuity ( Iasi community)
• artistic community from Romania
• other local communities from
Romania willing to implement a similar project
Estimated results
After the first year of project implementation the estimated
results are:
A. Quantitative results:
• To maintain the four initiative
groups
• To increase the number of the
members of the initiative groups already formed( aprx. 80
people)
• achieving two block façades and a
passing walk
• VECTOR artists will achieve 4
contemporary art project together with local inhabitants
• Achieving 2 projects proposed by
local inhabitants a
• organizing first pilot
editions of the festivals: cARTfest, cARTfilm, Children’Town
• making 10 interviews with the
inhabitants of the neighborhood for a book of telling histories
• distributing 1,000 flies, 200
posters, 500 folders with information on the project activities
• 3000 pople will participate
within the festivals: cARTfest, cARTfilm and Children’Town
B. Qualitative results:
• maintaining initiative groups’
interest for the project activities
• increasing the level of interest
in participating and involvement in artistic activities
• achieving a communication
relationship between the artists and the population of the
neighbourhood
• increasing the information level,
as far as cultural activities are concerned, and the social
cohesion by the agency of cultural actions
• increasing City Hall level of
interest for such projects, even to find internal sources of
financing or to do fund raising for facade and other works
• finding other sponsors
• getting the inhabitants of the
neighbourhood involved in the project activities and events
organized within the neighbourhood
• achieving mass media visibility
for the activities developed by Vector association within
cARTier project
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6.
“Facilitating a social dialogue for the unemployed women aged
over 45”, financed by World Bank, Small Grants, 15 August - 15
November 2004
Goal
Providing a space for dialogue between unemployed women aged
over 45 as a disadvantaged group in the employment process,
employers, governmental agencies which are dealing with human
resources employment (ANOFM and AJOFM) and NGOs (associations
and foundations) members of REPER network which are offering
services on the labor market and they are legally empowered for
this by the National Agency for Labor Force Employment (ANOFM)
Target group
Unemployed women aged over 45
Activities
• Organizing five seminars on the
local level, in Iasi, Roman, Campia Turzii, Hunedoara si
Targoviste - by the member associations of the REPER network -
to which there will be invited: representatives of the County or
Local Agency for Labor Force Employment , representatives
employers from that city, unemployed women who are clients of
the local Center, members of the County or Local Councils, mass
media representatives
• Organizing a national seminar to
which there will be invited: partner organizations,
representatives of National Agency for Labor Force Employment
(ANOFM), members of the Commission for labor, education and
family from Romanian Senate, mass media representatives
Estimated results
• To obtain a public consensus
regarding necessary measures to be taken in order to solve the
problems women unemployed are facing with
• Supporting women in standing up
for the problems they are confronting with and finding solutions
for it
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7. Anti Discrimination Campaign (ADC), financed by IREX, June –
August 2004
Goal
To raise the citizens’ awareness on the discrimination
phenomenon, especially on the labor market
Main objectives
• Conducting a local campaign in
order to promote the principle of nondiscrimination and equality
on the labor market between women and men
• Designing and organizing
trainings for employees and trade union leaders for
discrimination issues, existing regulations, compliance, etc.
• Raising the level of information
and support for working women or women looking for a job in
order to have an equal treatment in their professional lives
Activities
• providing local radio spots for
antidiscrimination awareness purpose through one of the most
popular local radio station
• providing local TV spots for
antidiscrimination awareness purpose within two of the most
popular local TV stations - part of national TV networks
• help line for information and
counseling in discrimination issues
• training within local companies :
12 women – representatives of local authorities- trained by Pro
WOMEN as gender facilitators and trainers within EGAL project
financed by SOROS Foundation in 2002 will do these trainings
within 15 local companies (at least 300 managers, board persons
and employee)
• designing and distributing
informative materials: flyers and leaf-lets for unemployed women
looking for a job ( 500 women will receive these information)
containing information on discrimination ; editing and
distributing the sociological survey that has been done to the
local companies( at least 200 pieces); 3 banners for phone line
announcement
• organizing a local march against
discrimination ( Pro WOMEN staff and volunteers, partners,
clients and collaborators)
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