PARTICIPATING ORGANISATIONS
CENTRO PER LA PACE FORLi’-APS
What are the organisation’s main activities?
The Centro Pace Forlì (Italy) was established in 2002 as a coordination point for associations and citizens working on issues such as peace, nonviolence, human rights, international cooperation, immigration and intercultural education. The centre organises training courses, conferences, seminars, audiovisuals projections and outreach activities. The general aim of the Centro Pace Forlì is the promotion and dissemination of a culture of solidarity, peace, multi-ethnic and multicultural integration. The objective of the association is also to include other associations, groups as well as people who share its vision. Indeed, the Center is a place of meeting, knowledge and socialisation of experiences and intercultural planning workshop for the development of active citizenship. The Centro Pace Forlì provides the main contribution in the organisation of the Romagna Peace March since 2012.
What are the organisation’s activities in the field of this application?
Along the years Centro per la Pace has carried out workshops and training courses about nonviolence and peace education both for adults and for youngsters and students. In particular it has hosted a Course for International Peace Mediators and a youth exchange named “Erasmus Plus, Peacebuilding as an added skill for young Europeans”, addressing the theory and practice of nonviolent modalities of interventions in conflict resolution and management. Centro per la Pace has also actively supported and organised several awareness events and non-violent initiatives and campaigns based on women’s rights defence, social inclusion and intercultural integration. Centro per la Pace works in close collaboration with a wide network of local and national organisations and, since 2012, it organises Romagna Peace March, ideally related to the National March Perugia-Assisi, focusing on themes such as peace, non-violence and human rights.
What profiles and age groups of learners are concerned by the organisation’s work?
Centro per la Pace training courses and initiative addresses several profiles and age groups, which can be summarised into the following categories:
· 11-14 years old students (mainly during after schools’ program)
· 16-18 years old students (project focused on women’s rights in high schools)
· 18+ years old and adults
· Women and LGBTQIA+ associations activists
· Human Rights Associations members
· Local/Public Authorities
· General Public
EUROMED FEMINIST INITIATIVE
What are the organisation’s main activities?
EuroMed Feminist Initiative (EFI – France) is a policy network that provides expertise in the field of gender equality and women’s rights, as inseparable from democracy building and citizenship. It encompasses women’s rights organisations from the two shores of the Mediterranean and provides feminist analyses underlining the different connections between the gendered structures of subordination in peace and war and violence against women and girls, as well as the links between economic systems, war and patriarchy and their implications on gender equality.
EFI promotes gender equality and women’s rights through:
– Leading awareness campaigns combating VAWG at local, national, regional and international levels;
– Strengthening capacities of local and national Civil Society Organisations in implementing awareness and advocacy initiatives;
– Building common analyses and expertise based on research and in the respect of the different contexts;
– Providing platforms for multi-sector policy dialogue.
What are the organisation’s activities in the field of this application?
EFI’s mission is to contribute to challenging the present power structures in order to correct their misbalances through fighting discrimination and oppression of women and bringing about positive changes for the whole society. EFI seeks to improve and promote women’s rights as universal human rights, the value of equality and the use of non-violent means to solve conflicts. The association’s activities are thus very connected to the field of this application being primarily centred on:
– Conducting awareness-raising activities towards eliminating social tolerance for violence against women and girls;
– Developing training contents and organising trainings and workshops on how to deal with violence against women and girls and to promote women’s rights;
– Leading awareness campaigns on gender equality issues at local and transnational levels, focusing also on the dissemination and evaluation processes.
What profiles and age groups of learners are concerned by the organisation’s work?
EFI’s programmes on gender-sensitive education, awareness-raising and leadership currently involves:
– Students (starting from primary schools);
– Youngsters (11-18 years old) and adults (general public);
– Civil society organisations, initiatives and activists (Fond des femmes pour la méditerranée, Élu.e.s contre les violences faites aux femmes, Osez le Féminisme, Quartiers du monde, Réseau de l’autonomie des femmes immigrées et réfugiées)
– Research institutes and universities (Sciences Po Paris, Institut Français des Relations Internationales)
– Political activists and representatives
– Local decision-makers
– Trade union representatives.
Women’s NGOs Cooperation Network of Latvia – WNCNL
What are the organisation’s main activities?
WNCNL (Latvia) since 2003 unites more than 40 associations and networks of women – representing women of all walks of life, age, social class, ethnic origin and colour, place of origin, citizenship, religion, sexual orientation, political views, and ability. The main aims of the Women’s NGOs Cooperation Network of Latvia are as follows:
1) monitoring gender equality policy and programmes at national and European Union level;
2) promoting solidarity and self-confidence of Latvian women;
3) developing of network’s members – women’s organisations and building capacity of its members especially –vulnerable women and women with fewer opportunities – Roma women, rural women, women with disability, single or young mothers, women – victims of male violence, women in preretirement age and women most affected by COVID-19 – medical staff, teachers, social workers, refugee women and girls;
4) coordination and organisation of local and international women’s co-operation activities.
What are the organisation’s activities in the field of this application?
Gender-based violence has been one of 5 priority areas in WNCNL strategies and work programmes. Several of founding members provide unique expert services in Latvia – Crisis Centre “Skalbes” provides 24/7 psychological support hotline and hotline for victims of crime, consultations and support groups for victims; Talsi Crisis centre provides in-patient services for victims of violence and supervises their long-term recovery; “Shelter “Safe House”” provides services for victims of trafficking, refugees and asylum seekers; Association of Women with Disability “Aspazija” works with women who suffer domestic violence and unites 12 member organisations of women with disability across Latvia.
The major project in development at the moment, between many others on the topic, is chatbot for victims of abuse, support persons and any interested party, together 14 members of WNCNL is working with ICT experts and yearly national wide policy conference at the Parliament.
What profiles and age groups of learners are concerned by the organisation’s work?
ADULTS
– NGO staff, volunteers
– Women’s groups (migrant, refugee, Roma, other minorities, women with disability, rural women, women in poverty etc.)
– Professionals (social workers, culture and youth workers, medicine professionals, transport and terminal employees, education – teachers and administration, police, border guards)
– Civil servants and municipal employees
– Politicians, especially women in politics
– Academics, especially women in science
YOUNG PEOPLE
– Ukrainian refugee children and youngsters
– Roma children and youngsters
– Girls and young women with fever opportunities
– Girls and young women (general population)
