Office for Democratic
Institutions and Human Rights
Activities
The ODIHR’s activities in the field of gender equality are based on a
three-step strategy of awareness-raising, local capacity-building and national
expertise development. Activities usually include training workshops, joint
government and civil society projects, and networking and co-operation
initiatives for civil society and government structures.
Civil
society and government co-operation at national and local levels
The ODIHR organizes workshops and roundtables for civil society and
government structures, and creates networks and mechanisms for their
co-operation. It also supports the development of national action plans on equal
opportunities for women and men.
Capacity-building for civil
society and government structures
By training local project teams
and establishing self-sustainable programmes that can be managed locally, the
ODIHR helps to build local capacity and ensure the long-term impact of its work.
Initiatives include mainstreaming gender aspects into health and education
reforms, and training university professors and high school teachers on teaching
courses in equal opportunities for women and men.
Women’s
leadership and participation
For a number of years the ODIHR has
been involved in leadership training and network-building for women in rural
areas of the Caucasus and Central Asia. One of the fruits of this activity has
been the establishment of a regional gender expert panel composed of previous
participants in the projects. Other initiatives include NGO coalition-building
to increase women’s political participation.
Preventing and
combating domestic violence
The ODIHR runs training programmes for
law enforcement and for the development of co-operation between NGOs and
law-enforcement bodies on the issue of domestic violence.
Projects are
ongoing in Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, and Kyrgyzstan with outreach to
Kazakhstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan, and are carried out by the Gender Unit of
the ODIHR’s Democratization Department.
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