About the project:

The overall objective of the project is to enable and expedite social integration of long-term unemployed women and young women entering the workforce from urban and rural areas in the Macedonia-Albania cross-border region. We intend to achieve this by increasing women’s capacities for employment through leadership and management trainings, experience-exchange study trips and cross border meetings.
With the activities in this project we will work on 3 levels of strengthening the cross-border cooperation. First level will be cooperation between civil society organizations. Second level is establishing women-to-women cooperation. Third level is institutional level - we shall make sure that representatives from welfare institutions participate on the cross-border conferences and study trips so they will start to get to know each other and eventually develop more contacts with the similar institutions from the other side of the lake.

Timeframe:

April 2011 – April 2012

Partners:

NGO "Une Gruaja" Pogradec

Results:

• Raised awareness among public and local welfare institutions about problems of social exclusion and poverty of unemployed women
• Strengthened leadership and increased personal development skills of the women participants, in order to help them with better integration into society
• Increased cooperation and contacts between woman from the cross border region. The local events and the study trips promoted social dialogue among participants, people of the communities and local stakeholders. These events/trips strengthened existing networks and created new ones. Trainees learned and applied social and leadership skills as they created and carried out the events
• Created cooperation and building of a cohesive network between local welfare institutions and universities within the cross border region. Exchanged experiences, strengthened relationships and developed ideas

Supported by:

This project is financed by European Union

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