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BULGARIAN GENDER EQUALITY COALITION
Aim for creation:
The legislation, civil society and institutions in Bulgaria to start working in compliance with the European gender equality standards.
The Bulgarian Gender Equality Coalition (BGEC) is an informal group uniting representatives of civil society, institutions, political parties and the media in Bulgaria, which works for achieving de facto equal opportunities for women and men in Bulgaria.
The initiator of its creation is Stanimira Hadjimitova - the Gender Task Force Stability Pact NGO Focal Point for Bulgaria.
The women's movement in Bulgaria has made a great success in the years after the IV-th World Women's Conference in Beijing in 1995. Many NGOs have been set up both in the capital and the country. National Plan for Action (1996-1997) has been designed with the joint efforts of the governmental institutions and NGOs and a lot of information materials about the key documents of the Conference in Beijing issued.
Especially active were the women who worked on violence against women issue and on political and economical women's empowerment. As a result of the efforts made, today Bulgaria have more women elected in the local authorities and the Parliament. After the last Parliamentary Elections 2001 there are 26.5% women MPs. In September 2003 the Bill on Prevention against Discrimination was adopted covering the gender equality issue as well; draft law on Prevention against Domestic Violence was designed and entered the Parliament.
At the National Equality Workshop held on 20 February 2004 in Sofia, 93 participants found unanimously that despite the successes achieved so far, the moment was critical and further joint efforts and activities were needed to guarantee the irreversibility of the process.
The following document became basis for the common work:
BULGARIAN GENDER EQUALITY COALITION
"Legislation, Civil Society and Institutions in Bulgaria Working in Compliance with the Gender Equality European Standards"
The Bulgarian Gender Equality Coalition (BGEC) is an informal group uniting representatives of civil society, institutions, political parties and media in Bulgaria, which works for achieving de facto equal opportunities for women and men in Bulgaria. It is an open structure, set up on 3 April 2000 as a network of "Gender Task Force - Bulgaria" organisations to the Stability Pact.
Objectives (2004 - 2005)
- Achieving a broader representativeness of women in legislative and executive power in the year 2005 - minimum 30% women in the Parliament and 40% women in leading positions - ministers, deputy ministers and district governors;
- Assisting in the implementation of Bill on Prevention against Discrimination implementation;
- Adoption of the Bill about Prevention against Domestic Violence.
For achieving its objectives, the Bulgarian Gender Equality Coalition created three Working groups with the task till end of May, 2004 three Project Proposals on the respective a.m. topics to be prepared. It was also planned in June a Donors Conference to be called for their financing.
Follow up activities of the Bulgarian Gender Equality Coalition:
- On March 1st the newly established Network of Women Social democrats became a member of the Coalition;
- On March 4th St. Hadjimitova met the Chair of the newly formally established Network of Women Liberals to present the Coalition and to invite them to join. Within 10 days their answer is expected;
- On March 8th the Coalition was launched by Press conference;
- On March 10th the official Letter to the Spiker of the Parliament for appointment of Deputy Ombuds on Gender Equality was sent by St Hadjimitova. The text with arguments was written by Prof. Nora Anannieva from Solidarity Foundation;
- The three project proposals were elaborated and presented by Pavlina Filipova (WAD), Iliana Stoycheva (BGRF) and Stanimira Hadjimitova (GPF) at the Donors Conference on June 14th, 2004. Five donors came out of 25 invited. The Information Center to the Council of Europe in Sofia suggested to provide premises for free for the future Coalition meetings.
- On October 27th, 2004 the Coalition had its next meeting in hotel "Rila", Adakta Hall on the topic "Preparation for participation in Beijing+10 process". The meeting was supported by Gender Task Force and its Chair Sonja Lokar took part in it. The decision was made a Letter to be send to the Government with the suggestion 3 women from NGO sector to be included in the official delegation for the UNECE Regional Preparatory Meeting in Geneva for the 10-year Review of Implementation of the Beijing Platform for Action, 12-15 December 2004. The Letter was written by Genoveva Tisheva, the Director of BGRF, signed by Stanimira Hadjimitova too and sent to the Minister of Foreign Affairs. No answer was received till November 22nd.
Donors
The Gender Project for Bulgaria Foundation is grateful to its donors for their support.
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Global Fund for Women
1375 Sutter Street, Suite 400 San Francisco, CA 94109 USA website: http://www.globalfundforwomen.org/ |
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Minnesota Advocates for Human Rights
310 Fourth Ave S, # 1000 Minneapolis, MN 55415-1012 USA website: http://www.mnadvocates.org/ |
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Gender Studies Small Program Open Society Institute
Oktober 6 u.12 Street 1051 Budapest Hungary |
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MATRA KAP Program of the Netherlands Embassy
38, Galichitsa Street 1126 Sofia Bulgaria website: http://www.netherlands-embassy.si/index3426.html |
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Stability Pact Gender Task Force
Savska 41/2 Street 10000 Zagreb Croatia website: http://www.stabilitypact.org/gender/ |
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National Democratic Institute
159, Rakovski Street 1000 Sofia Bulgaria website: http://www.ndi-bg.org/ |
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Democracy Commission Small Grants
Embassy of the USA 18, Vitosha str. 1000 Sofia Bulgaria website: http://www.usembassy.bg/pao/demcom.html |
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About us
Mission
Aims
Center for Sustainable Communities Development is an independent, non-governmental organization in public benefit, founded in 1994 by active professional women. It has won recognition as an Advocacy group working to:
- raise Bulgarian society awareness on gender equality issues;
- raise civil society intolerance to violence against women at home and in workplace;
- change the legislation to protect women and children victims of domestic violence;
- educate children and young people in human rights and the national and international regulations guaranteeing those rights;
- get media involved in gender issues discussions;
- acquire successful practices of foreign NGOs and adapt them professionally to the Bulgarian reality;
- promote and encourage women in starting-up their own business;
- achieve more active women's participation in politics and decision-making, and create a national women's lobby;
Center for Sustainable Communities Development has realized those aims by:
- organizing information and education campaigns through active partnership with the media and production of a video spots, radio broadcasts and special columns in the press;
- organizing training seminars in Sofia and the country on domestic violence issues; hidden discrimination of women from ethnic groups in Bulgaria; gender awareness and analyses; the media role for overcoming existing stereotypes; acquiring leadership skills; gender education in school and university; starting-up small business; NGO management
- designing and participating in projects for creation of National mechanism for equal opportunities of women and men in Bulgaria and its promoting in public space;
- actively supporting the national and international women's networks that strengthen women's positions;
- conducting various researches of domestic violence issues, sexual harassment, globalization effect on women and men
Center for Sustainable Communities Development is part of:
Team
STANIMIRA HADJIMITOVA
Master degree in Electrical Engineering from the Technical University of Sofia (Bulgaria) and a Bachelor degree in Economics from the Economic University of Sofia (Bulgaria). While she has been working as an entrepreneur since 1992, being an exporter of Bulgarian professional machines and tools and agricultural products, she has established in 1995 one of the first Bulgarian advocacy groups in the field of gender equality – Gender Project for Bulgaria Foundation (GPF). Today the organization is called Center for Sustainable Communities Development and works also on topics as development aid, media, migration, etc. Being its Director, Stanimira managed the overall staff work and participated in project writing, implementing, monitoring, evaluation and reporting of more than 90 projects run in Bulgaria and SEE. As civil society activist she participated in numerous international events connected with the global women’s movement, like the NGO Forum at the IV-th UN Conference on Women, Beijing, 1995.
DIANA GEORGIEVA
Master degrees in International Economic Relationships and Corporate Social Responsibility, recently engaged in projects mainly targeted social issues like gender equality, DV, Honor Related Violence, women empowerment, entrepreneurship, social inclusion of Roma people, hate speech, etc. Trainer, mentor and facilitator. Certified mediator and career consultant.
DIANA KOVANDJIEVA
17 years of experience in the organization as an accountant, office administrator, project coordinator. Worked on projects for empowering rural women, gender equality and building rural development networks.
NANCY BORISSOVA
Bachelor degree in Journalism and Mass Communications in Sofia University. Worked as a journalist for some Bulgarian media outlets on topics related to human rights, women rights, migration and minorities. Prize winner of Journalism for development award 2018.
DIANA DIMITROVA
Master degree in Finance & EMBA. More than 11 years of experience under different EU Operational Program in a variety of fields.
Working experience as a consultant, project manager, external assessor at different EU funded projects with private companies, municipalities, institutions and diverse partners.
ROSEN HADJIMITOV
Bachelor degree in finance from the University of World Economy in Sofia. He used to work for many years on organization and control of construction activities for numerous private companies, like Riverside Residential Park AD, Eco Resort EAD, AEB Consult Ltd, Encon - S Ltd. He has excellent organizational skills and abilities to coordinate teamwork, in program development and logistics.
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