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The local seminars within the frame of the "Women can do it - AL" project

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(January - March 2003, Republic of Moldova)


  The project "Women Can Do It -AL" , funded by the Canadian Agency for International Development through the OSCE Mission in Moldova, provided for the organisation and unfolding of 2 seminars (training and evaluation) for trainers and 37 seminars in all the territorial-administrative units of Moldova. The project implementation period: 24 December 2002 - 31 March 2003.

  From 25 January to 14 March, 2003those 37 seminars were organised in accordance with the Project Schedule in 32 localities from 11 Moldovan districts, Transnistria, the Gagauzi region and the Chisinau municipality. The organisation of the seminars was insured by 13 teams by 2 trainers each.
  It is necessary to mention here the significant contribution of Liliana Sorrentino, a member of the OSCE Mission to Moldova, who facilitated the organisation of two seminars in Transnistria.

  27 seminars were held in Romanian and 10 in Russian.

  892 women participated in seminars, avegeragely by 24-25 participants in each seminar representing the parliamentary parties (PCRM - 98, PPCD - 47, ASDM - 51,UCM-21), the main extra-parliamentary (PL - 124, PDM - 122, PSL - 111, PSDM - 13, AI - 19 s.a.), the NGO's - 112, the trade unions - 8, the mass media - 14 and independent candidates - 108.
  In order to form the groups to participate in seminars, the trainers sent to each party leader from those localities by a letter requesting him/her to delegate to participate in the seminar the women to candidate on their arty lists in the next local elections. In the Ungheni county, they manage to publish an announcement in the local press to inform the future independent candidates about the seminar, while in other counties those announcements were broadcast by local radios.
  At the opening, they invited by an influential man (called in the project "ally-man",) accepted and respected in the locality concerned. Among those there were chairmen of County Councils, deputy prefects, journalists, local party leaders, mayors and others.

   The professional representation of the participants in seminars was as follows: 36% - teachers, 31% - representatives of Local Public Administration (including mayor-women,) 7% - physicians and nurses, 4% - engineers, 7,2% - economists and accountants, 3,15% - entrepreneurs, 3,15% - agronomists, 2% - lawyers, 1,47% - culture people, 1,2% - students, 1,05% - trade union workers, 1,05% - journalists and others.

  They managed an ample geographical, representation women from 318 localities (communes, villages, towns) from Moldova. That is due to the fact that, in most of cases, the seminars were held in several towns in a county, not only in the administrative centre of the county. Those 37 seminars were organised in 32 towns.

  The agenda of each seminar contained the following chapters: the Local Public Administration, the Electoral Legislation, Notions and definitions of the gender equity, Politics - Approaching Women, Domineering Techniques and the Word Power. The compartments, from the seminar agendas, regarding the electoral legislation and Local Public Administration were presented in some counties (Soroca, Chisinau), upon the trainers' initiative, by the local specialists those fields.
  Here are the persons who participated in seminars as evaluators:
    Liliana Sorrentino, anti-trafficking officer, the OSCE Mission in Moldova ( Tiraspol, Dubasari);
    Eleonora Grosu, anti-trafficking assistant, the OSCE Mission in Moldova(mun.Chisinau);
    Dina Loghin, GTF, SP, Romania (Ungheni, Orhei, Soroca);

    As well as the members of the National Board of the "Women Can Do It - AL" project:

    Galina Precup, (St. Voda);
    Elena Burca, (Taraclia),
    Valentina Bodrug, (Edinet, Ocnita);
    Maria Saharneanu, (Cahul, Hancesti, Nisporeni, Telenesti, Rezina);
    Liliana Gutan, ( Glodeni),
    Anghelina Apostol, (Cimislia, Congaz),
    Ecaterina Mardarovici, (mun. Chisinau, Straseni, Ungheni, Orhei, Soroca, Anenii-Noi, Causeni, Cimislia, Congaz).
  The evaluators positively appreciated the organisation and unfolding levels of the seminars they attended, especially underlining the team work of the trainers, what served as a live example of the way in which women from different social environments (according to the project requirements, every team was made up of 2 trainers representing different political parties, NGO's, unions) can efficiently work together for a common purpose, and in this case it was the good organisation of seminars. At seminars they used short presentations on projectors and transparent sheets; role playing exercises and methods of inter-active learning of the discussed subjects: domineering techniques, political leader abilities, ways of involving women into politics, reasoning a public debates, reasoning the promotion of women on the candidates lists or as independent candidates. Basing on the narrative reports of trainers, one saw that the supervisors' help gave importance and efficiency to local seminars.
  Because the seminars took place in territories, they served as events for all the local media (Ungheni - local newspaper, Balti - local TV, Riscani - local TV, Gagauzia - local TV and radio, Rascani - local TV, Chisinau - radio Antena C, newspapers "Democratia", "Kishinyovsky obozrevatel", Straseni - national radio, programme "Buna dimineata", Anenii-noi - local newspaper "Anina", Criuleni - local newspaper "Est Curier", Rezina - local newspaper "Cuvantul", Soroca - local newspaper "Observatorul de Nord".) Journalists, both men and women, informed the public opinion on the project goals and objectives, on its implementation ways, as well as on the women's involvement in carrying out the project "Women Can Do It," including on the participants.
  Up-to-date information was published on the web site of the Women's Political Club 50/50 ( see www.club50.md ) in "Actual" and "Activitati".
Ecaterina Mardarovici,
Co-ordinator of the Project "Women Can Do It - AL"