The project "Women Can Do It" was launched by the Stability Pact for South Eastern Europe Gender Task Force and financed by the Stability Pact. The NGO "Women's Political Club-50/50" implemented the project in the Republic of Moldova.

The implementation period of the project was May-September 2003. During this period a National Project Launch Conference was organized (including a press conference), 3 local seminars and one evaluation seminar. The purpose of the project was the initiation of roma women in the theory and practice of gender equality and to encourage roma women to participate more actively in the public and political life and also to create a network of socially active roma women or those women with potential for public activity.

The implementation of the project "Roma Women Can Do It!" started with the National Launching Conference that was held on July 29th 2003 in the conference room of the Department of interethnic Relations.

Guests invited that attended the Conference:
L. Burgula, MP, the Parliamentary Comission for Human Rights and National Minorities;
D. Cujba, Secretary II, National Bourieu for the South Eastern Europe Stability Pact;
L. Pogribnaia, President of the department for Equal Opportunities and Family Politics, the Ministry of Social Protection;
N. Mlecico, General Director, the Department of Interethnic Relations;
L. Sorrentino, Member of the OSCE Mission in Moldova;
L. Gutan, representative of the Presidency;
Representatives of women's NGOs, representatives of national minorities;
The members of the Nation Board for implementing the projects initiated by the SP GTF;
Representatives of roma women from local communities.

At the opening of the National Conference the participants were welcomed by L. Burgula, MP that saluted the launch of the project and mentioned that she highly appreciates the purpose of the project.
The Project coordinator E. Mardarovici, made a vast presentation of the project "Roma Women Can Do It!", referring to the low participation of the roma women at the "Women Can Do It" seminars but that this project is a chance for roma women to get involved and actively participate at the movement of women for equal opportunities in the Republic of Moldova.
Mrs. E. Drosu, trainer, has made a presentation of the situation of roma women, especially emphasizing the problem of educating roma children and the state of health of roma women, the double discrimination of the roma women by the roma men and on an ethnic criterion, she also described the organization method and the methods of selecting the participants at the seminars;
Ms. M. Cibotari, trainer, presented the agenda of the seminars, and said she would do anything possible for young girls to attend these seminars.
Ms. Liliana Sorrentino encouraged roma women to participate in the local political life.
Daniele Cujba made a brief presentation of the National Board and saluted the implementation of the project in Moldova.
Natalia Mlecico, believes that each woman should be more concerned by social issues and that the implemented projects should only cover this area of the issue, and that the participation in the public life cannot be the purpose of a project. (The Participants at the Conference did not agree with this point of view);
Lidia Pogribnaia welcomed the participants at the seminar and promised her full support for successfully implementing the project; she made references to roma social problems.
The representatives of women's NGOs (A. Mandacanu, V. Bodrug, M. Saharneanu, N. Zghibarta) salu7ted the launch of the project and offered their support.
The local representatives of roma women said that they hope this project would be special for roma women, although they have doubts concerning the interests of roma women in the project's issues.

Each participant at the Conference received a short description of the project (2 pages) in Romanian and in Russian, according to preference.
The National Conference was held in a good atmosphere, many roma problems in general were identified and especially problems of roma women.
The Conference ended with a concert presented by roma children that came from Sangerei.

The launch of the project "Roma Women Can Do It" during the press conference and during the National Conference represented an event for the media: National Radio Station, EURO-TV, "Flux" Agency, Basa-Press Agency, "Democratia" and "Moldova Suverana" newspapers. We can conclude that the launch of the project has had a wide coverage, especially in e-press.