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GRANTS
Dear Ladies and Gentlemen!
Below there is a list of projects supported by UWF in 2005-2010.
Projects supported in 2010
Grants competition "Women Change Themselves and their Communities"
 Organization: “À-VESTA” Vinnytsia Regional Organization of the Disabled,
Ukraine
Project title: My woman’s right for safe life
Project manager: Polulyakh Larysa
Description: The project is aimed to raise legal awareness of girls who study and life in orphanages of Vinnytsia region. Within the project it is planned to prepare a group of trainers of female students who are the organization’s volunteers and who will further conduct in target orphanages trainings on gender equality, counteracting violence and trafficking.
Budget: $4 592
Organization: Women’s
Initiative Center
,
Moldova
Project title: Creating Women’s
Information
Center
in Gagauzia
Project manager: Chebanu Nadia
Description: The project is aimed at developing regional strategy in the field of gender and ITC through creating regional women's portal.
Budget: $ 4 830
Organization: "Provintsia" Borisov Women’s Social CSO,
Belarus
Project title: Organizational Development with Help of Internet
Project manager: Murahsko Olga
Description: The project is directed at raising social activism of rural women and girls, strengthening their influence on taking decisions that concern the life of villagers through education and practical actions. It is planned to unite active women of 8 villages, form initiative groups, educate them, develop social activism to strengthen influence on decisions and events that are organized in village and concern women’s interests. Educational program will cover issues of self-esteem, leadership, gender equality, counteracting violence as well as planning civil society activities taking into consideration community needs.
Budget: $ 2 000
Grants Competition "Sustainable Development of Women’s CSOs"
Organization: Kulykivka Branch of the Union of Women of
Ukraine
,
Ukraine
Project title: Strengthening and Development of Kulykivka Union of Women of Ukraine
Project manager: Maslyonka Svitlana
Description: The project is aimed to promote organizational strengthening and building capacity of the organization and women’s rural councils of the area through informational and educational campaign. Owing to the project 125 organization’s activists will receive legal, methodological, theoretical and practical preparation on the issues of women’s SCOs sustainability; in future that will help, on one hand, make significant changes inside the organization and, on the other hand, involve more women to developing civil society.
Budget: $ 2 010
Grants competition "Women in Politics is a Way to Changes"
Organization: Instituteof
Women’s Rights
,
Moldova
Project title: Ensuring Equal Opportunities for Women in Decision-Making
Project manager: Protsenko Olena
Description: To promote equal opportunity of women in state decision-making, in political and social life of the country. The tasks are to improve the knowledge of teachers in educating political activism in young women in
Moldova
; to raise awareness of young women of possibilities in political and social participation; develop interest of young women in participation in decision-making.
Budget: $ 5000
Organization: Women’s Alternatives,
Ukraine
Project title: Gender Balance in Social and Political Life of Sevastopol city
Project manager: Gryshyna Anastasia
Description: creating conditions for strengthening the role of women in decision-making through conducting training program "Gender equality as a way to ensure social justice", creating database of women-leaders of
Sevastopol
to form candidates’ pool for all levels of power and political parties, as well as conducting educational events in
Sevastopol
during the year 2010.
Budget: $ 4394
Organization: KhersonLeagues of Business and Professional Women,
Ukraine
Project title: Women in Politics: Overcoming Barriers and Stereotypes
Project manager: Kravets Natalia
Description: The project is aimed at changing community opinions concerning the place of women in decision-making process, at promoting and increasing the capacity of women to influence decision-making at the level of four territorial communities of the region. Within the project it I planned to conduct analysis through sociological survey, series of informational and educational events, educational studios, radio-debates and develop Action plan starting from women’s initiatives till taking decisions by territorial community.
Budget: $ 5033
Organization: Association of Women-Deputies of
Poltava
city,
Ukraine
Project title: By Changing Ourselves We Change the Society
Project manager: Latysh Olha
Description: To improve potential and competence of women working in governance bodies as well as women-leaders who would like to participate in political life and decision-making in solving urgent problems of
Poltava
community.
Budget: $ 3544
Organization: Nadezhda (Hope), Grodno District Women’s CSO,
Belarus
Project title: Improving the knowledge of rural women for participation in political and social life of local communities
Project manager: Kashenkova Lidia
Description: To prepare women of rural communities for more active participation in local elections and participation in social and political work of local communities.
Budget: $ 5000
Projects supported within the competition "We Change Communities through Uniting"
Organization: Suziria
Center
of
Local Activism
, Voznesensk town CSO,
Ukraine
Project title: Save Resources –
Improve
Town
’s Ecology!
Project manager: Baltser Viktoria
Description: Within the project it is planned to create two sites with garbage containers for separate collection of solid domestic waste near pilot schools. Each site will have 3 containers: 1 for plastic and glass, second – for paper and third – for other solid waste. To change students’ consciousness, to form careful attitude and ensure their direct participation in sorting and separate collecting of solid domestic waste it is planned to conduct informational and educational campaign with participation of school students and teachers.
Budget: $ 1187
Organization: Ternopil Regional Association of Women,
Ukraine
Project title: Improving the System of Social Services in
Ternopil
City
Project manager: Matsuk Maria
Description: The project activities include conducting research by “report cards” method concerning the quality of social services provided to inhabitants of Ternopil city by
Ternopil
Territorial
Center
of social services for pensioners, single incapacitated citizens. By the research results it is planned to develop and discuss during round table the proposals on improvement of structure and quality of social services provided to Ternopil inhabitants.
Budget: $ 1676
Organization: Cherkasy Women’s
Center
,
Ukraine
Project title: When We Are Together We Can Do it!
Project manager: Kostenko Lyudmyla
Description: The project supposes work with elderly women who make a significant part of population. They often have depressions because of losing social liaisons that’s why the project efforts are directed at returning them to active life, filling their life with new forms and content, using their energy, knowledge and acquired experience for the benefit of community.
Budget: $ 1887
Organization: "Perlyna" (Perl) Horodok District CSO,
Ukraine
Project title: Informational and educational campaign aimed at protecting the rights of population of Horodok district in the sphere of providing social services
Project manager: Poslavska Nadia
Description: Within the project it is planned: to study the problems of town and district inhabitants concerning social protection of population, and namely, the quality of providing communal and social services by state agencies of the district and the town; to organize meetings with governance representatives to establish dialogue between governance and community in the sphere of providing social services; organize meetings with active women in institutions and enterprises of different types of ownership; to develop a mutual plan of initiatives aimed at protecting rights and advocating interests of communities, receiving access to information about quality and pricing for services, providing legal assistance for protecting rights of consumers of communal and social services for inhabitants of district and town.
Budget: $ 1870
Organization: Self-Governed Community CSO,
Ukraine
Project title: Creating the Civil Action Committee "Probudzhennya"
Project manager: Plotnikova Inna
Description: Through activities of the newly created civil society organization "Self-Governed Community" it is planned to create the body of population self-organizing – the Civil Action Committee – aimed at implementing constitutional rights and freedoms of mini-district inhabitants to ensure life conditions, creative opportunities and abilities of territorial community members; organize separate Co-Ownership Housing Associations (COHA) in houses of municipal ownership and creating COHA Union; consolidate all forms of house servicing in a unified Gurt Housing Council, as economic and social structure, which will be a logical continuation of the project.
Budget: $ 1887
Organization: Centerof
Assisting Economic Development
of Kalush area,
Ukraine
Project title: Self-Organizing of Population as a Step in Solving Local Community Problems
Project manager: Pasichnyk Maria
Description: Creating the structure of population self-organizing for inhabitants of multifamily houses and building estates of Kalush town, establishing partnership between inhabitants, local governance bodies and civil society organizations through the system of raising the awareness level.
Budget: $ 1817
Organization: Civil Council of Children’s and Youth Organizations,
Ukraine
Project title: COHAis New Life Quality. Let’s Unite for the Sake of Future!
Project manager: Yevseyeva Nadia
Description: The project is directed at creating first in the town Co-Ownership Housing Associations (COHA), whose activities are directed at solving social and domestic problems. For that within the project it is planned to consolidate efforts and possibilities of civil society organizations, town council deputies (18 districts), city council executive committee, active residents of housing complexes and mass media. It is planned to conduct information campaigns, education for representatives of housing complexes, to provide legal, consultative assistance on creating COHA, organize activities for creating COHA, which will improve the life of Dzhankoi community.
Budget: $ 1886
Organization: Perspectives, Novomoskovsk District Organization of Dnipropetrovsk region,
Ukraine
Project title: Become a Responsible Owner of Personal Housing – Create COHA
Project manager: Nasteka Natalia
Description: The project is directed at conducting informational campaign to attract attention of town’s population and population of other settlements of Novomoskovsk district to the problem of quality of communal utility services, ways to improve them, advantages of COHA, mechanisms of creating them.
Budget: $ 1882
Organization: "Vohnyk ¹2" Union of Co-Ownership Housing Associations,
Ukraine
Project title: Creating
Resource
Center
for Support and Development of COHA in Voznesensk area
Project manager: Hromanukho Olha
Description: The project will start from informing community of Voznesensk area. Then two trainings will be conducted for 60 representatives of area communities, where COHAs were created; qualified specialists – lawyer and specialist in social protection – will provide consultations; 20 representatives of area communities will visit a successful organization with information center to acquire positive experience and launch a resource center at “Vohnyk ¹2” COHA Union; there the village inhabitants will have access to outside information and resources through internet.
Budget: $ 1883
Organization: Zamlichivska CSO,
Ukraine
Project title: Common Decision – Efficient Result
Project manager: Melnychuk Oleh
Description: The project is aimed at implementing measures of efficient energy use in the premises of feldsher-midwife station, where warmth is wasted because of leaking roof, unfitted windows and doors. Within the project it is supposed to replace and coldproof 100 m2 of roof, replace 5 windows and 1 door, which will create in the medical institutions comfortable conditions for providing medical services to population.
Budget: $ 1213
Organization: "Life" Support
Foundation
,
Ukraine
Project title: Creation and development of self-support group for young (under 18) mothers
Project manager: Sakhilova Natalia
Description: The project is aimed at creating a mutual support group for young mothers in Brovary town. Within the project it is supposed to carry out activities aimed at involving community (particularly, involving women’s organization "Women’s Community" and State Center of Services for Youth and Children in Brovary) in work of mutual support groups, in conducting weekly meetings of the group in the premises of "Life" Support Foundation, as well as individual psychologist’s consultations for the group participants. The project will result in increased number of female activists and developed system of community collaboration in work of young mothers.
Budget: $ 1887
Organization: "Uspenka" Practical Territorial Association,
Ukraine
Project title: Place for Communication
Project manager: Stefaneshyna Olha
Description: The project is directed at solving the problem of territory – absence of places for communication, for organizing clubs for school students and pre-school children, employment for village citizens, preserving national traditions, forming skills of healthy lifestyle.
Budget: $ 1887
Organization: "Moloda Cherkaschyna" Coalition of Youth Organizations of Cherkasy region,
Ukraine
Project title: Regional Youth Policy: from Promises to Real Support
Project manager: Kavalchuk Tetyana
Description: The project goal is to carry out complete representation and protection of interests of youth in Cherkasy region in the process of developing local state budget for the year 2011 through analyzing pre-election promises of Regional Council deputies concerning youth policies, public discussion on the necessity to support the needs of youth by regional budget and possible format of such support, further control over inclusion of positions important for youth in the local budget.
Budget: $ 967
Organization: "Tvoryty Dobro" (Doing Good) Mykolayiv Regional organization,
Ukraine
Project title: Decent living conditions for rural students in hostel
Project manager: Tvardovska Vita
Description: The project will consolidate the efforts of rural students in creating decent living conditions in a hostel of
Mykolayiv
State
Agrarian
University
to improve condition in the room of personal hygiene and laundry, with to active participation of rural girls. The project results and experiences will be disseminated on the region’s territory.
Budget: $ 1887
Organization: Women’s Information Consultative Centre (Zhytomyr),
Ukraine
Project title: Ozerny village community against abusive treatment of children
Project manager: Kulik Lyudmyla
Description: The project is aimed at uniting community and governance bodies of Ozerny village and consolidating their efforts to overcome the problem of violence against children.
Budget: $ 1887
Annual grant competition within the First Step to Success young women’s leadership program (program winners of 2009-2010)
Project leaderBlyznyuk Alina
Region
Dnipropetrovsk
,
Ukraine
Project name Don’t let cheat yourself
Description Raising awareness of risk group girls of the problem of human trafficking. Conducting a series of lectures and meetings with youth, covering the problem in mass media, preparing and sharing informational and educational products.
Project leader Vdovichen Anastasia
Region Sumy, Ukraine
Project name Creating the centre for assisting social adaptation of children of labour migrants
Description Raising public awareness of the problems of children (especially girls) of labor migrants (îñîáëèâî ä³â÷àòîê). Creating the centre for assisting social adaptation and support.
Project leader Verteba Yana
Region Donetsk, Ukraine
Project name School of female business-leaders
Description Stimulating young women to start own business, developing girls’ leadership and overcoming gender stereotypes through conducting educational and methodological training seminar and exchange of experience with successful women-entrepreneurs of Mariupol city, writing business-plans by the project participants.
Project leader Hunchenko Tetyana
Region Donetsk, Ukraine
Project name Formation of young journalists movement in Mariupol city
Description Developing the movement of young journalists in Melitopol city through uniting the city’s schools press-centers and their training in city youth organization “League of young journalists of Mariupol”, creating the League’s informational website.
Project leaders Dobryakova Olha, Pokotylo Yulia
Region
Zhytomyr
,
Ukraine
Project name Gender education for youth of Zhytomyr region
Description Raising the level of gender awareness of Zhytomyr youth through conducting a series of trainings, “gender geocaching” and publishing gender-oriented newspaper.
Project leader Zanyk Khrystyna
Region Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine
Project name School of active youth
Description Complex of interconnected systematic events aimed at educating active youth aged 16-21, engaging them in the city’s social activism, assistance in realization their creative and intellectual potential. Educational program is a series of trainings that include theoretical and practical modules.
Project leaders Kozhevnykova Lidia, Maksymchk Svitlana
Region
Volyn
,
Ukraine
Project name Childhood happiness
Description Providing permanent material support for orphans and children from poor families. Increasing public interest to charity directed at helping children through conducting advertising campaigns, social actions and involving non-indifferent people. Creating children’s charitable organization.
Project leader Miroshnyk Raisa
Region
Kheson
,
Ukraine
Project name The price paid: 15 years of life!
Description Struggle against harmful habits of teenagers from 13 to 16 years old in
Kherson
through decreasing the level of smoking and drinking alcohol. Conducting interactive classes with schoolchildren, meetings with doctors, contest of drawings among orphans, organizing anti-tobacco flash-mob.
Project leader Muraviova Olena
Region
Lviv
,
Ukraine
Project name MIMOSA creative workshop as alternative pastime
Description Introducing the experience of craftswomen in the course of polymer clay modeling of decorations and souvenirs for orphans in Chervonohrad orphanage. Conducting charitable auction.
Project leader Oliynyk Sofia
Region
Lviv
,
Ukraine
Project name Young! Successful! Active!
Description Assistance in development and encouragement to self-realization and activism of young girls-leaders of Sokal’ city and district through organizing seminars, trainings, meetings with successful women and just young girls who have already achieved a certain success. Preparing informational movie by girls who themselves will be directors, script-writers and actors.
Project leader Tsykariova Natalia
Region
Sumy
,
Ukraine
Project name FATHER is a high position
Description Developing conscious relationships in families between fathers and teenagers through conducting training seminar "Father is a high position". Organizing press-conference.
Project leader Chyshynska Hanna
Region
Lviv
,
Ukraine
Project name Youth Leadership Club
Description Assisting in organized and cognitive pastime for children of Lviv through conducting the Youth Leadership Club and creating thematic workshops
Project leader Shykh Yulia
Region Lviv, Ukraine
Project name ECO-asphalt or ground-SETTELMENT
Description Organizing in Lviv city photo-exhibition devoted to representation of alternative (to urban and rural) life style – life in eco-settlement.
Grant competition within the Global Initiative for Breast Cancer Awareness
Organization:
Dnipropetrovsk
City
non-governmental organization “Women’s
Information
Coordination
Center
”,
Ukraine
Project title: Woman’s Health is Nation’s Health
Project leader: Potapova Natalia
Description: The project has the goal to decrease the level of detecting breast cancer at advanced stages among women working in institutions of general education of Dnipropetrovsk oblast through raising the level of their awareness of breast cancer,efficiency and advantages of early detection methods.The project is directed at solving the problem formulated in the Community Profile and is aimed particularly at women-educationalists, who are able not only to raise their breast cancer awareness level and form responsible attitude to their health, but also contribute to sharing acquired knowledge among other women.
Budget: $ 8829
Organization: Dnipropetrovsk Regional Non-governmental organization “Zhuravushka”,
Ukraine
Project title: Cancer is not a verdict!
Project leader: Shkuropadska Lyudmyla
Description: The project goal is to decrease the level of breast cancer detection at advanced stages among rural women of Dnipropetrovsk raion of Dnipropetrovsk oblast.
Budget: $ 10038
Organization: Cherkasy Regional Organization of Disabled Persons «I Am not Alone»,
Ukraine
Project title: Warm Contact
Project leader: Baranetska Tamara
Description: The project goal is to decrease the level of detecting the disease at advanced stages among women of rural community of Chyhyryn raion of Cherkasy oblast and raising the level of women’s awareness of breast cancer.
Budget: $9900
Ongoing competition "Grants that Bring Together"
Organization: Democratic
Alliance
All-Ukrainian Organization, Odesa Regional
Branch
,
Ukraine
Project leader: Mazharova Natalia
Description: Short-term summer Discover Management Program, July 6-14 2010,
Slovenia
.
Budget: $ 239
Organization: Suomi Women’s Club at Kyiv Association of Culture of People of Finno-Permian Group,
Ukraine
Project leader: Yefimishch Nadia
Description: The program of Israel Embassy "Women-Entrepreneurs and ITC" (
Haifa
,
Israel
), August 2-21, 2010.
Budget: $ 503
Organization: Youth Regional Collaboration Center
,
Ukraine
Project leader: Dekhtyariova Oksana
Description: participation in Young Women’s Dialogue at AWID Resource Mobilization for Women’s Rights Organizations and Movements in South East Europe, Central and Eastern Europe, and the Commonwealth of Independent States (SEE/CEE/CIS), October 21-23,
Tbilisi
,
Georgia
.
Budget: $ 385
Organization:
Chernihiv
City
League of Business and Professional Women,
Ukraine
Project leader: Dorozhkyna Iryna
Description: International Meeting of presidents and delegates of European Clubs BPW Internatoinal and seminars on organizational development of BPW Europe (
Vienna
,
Austria
), October 8-20, 2010.
Budget: $ 562
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