Women's priorities, first!

Women priorities, first! (First, women's priorities!) brings to the fore the critical areas of intervention that represent the main cause of gender disparities in Romania.
Romania has one of the worst performances in Europe in terms of gender equality and women are affected by poverty to a greater extent than men.
Women's priorities, first! ((Women's priorities first!) is a project funded by the European Women's Lobby through the Membership Support Regranting Scheme with European Union funds and will run from July to November 2024.
Romanian Women's Lobby aims to increase visibility and interest in the priorities of women in Romania and Europe. Through the project:
- we will address solutions in several critical areas that represent the main cause of gender disparities in Romania,
- we will help increase the capacity of women's rights organizations to actively participate in decision-making processes to support women's rights.
As specific objectives, ROWL proposes the creation of 3 tools:
- Promotion of feminist policies in local councils - guide for local councillors,
- How to work with women's representatives - guide for empowering women's organizations,
- How to promote women's priorities in EU legislation - guide for Romanian MEPs.
Monitoring the national and European political agenda is essential for NGOs to have the opportunity to play their historical role as active representatives of the realities of all women and girls in the member states.
During the planned events, we will transfer this knowledge to women involved in politics at local, national and European level, RoWL member NGOs and other interested parties. In order to expand and multiply the knowledge and influence of member organizations in the decision-making process of the EU, there will be trainings, training sessions; study visits, seminars and conferences.
Women's priorities, first! (Women's priorities, first!) will look not only at the problems that women have in achieving equality, but above all, it will show solutions, models tested in other communities in Romania or Europe.

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5 sept 2024

We continue our efforts to promote feminist policies. Promoting feminist policies in local councils is a tool that includes a collection of good practices, initiatives of civil society organizations.

NGOs, in general, but especially those founded or led by women, were the promoters of the initiation and development of social, medical-social, educational, prevention and combating violence against women and children services, as well as advocacy campaigns and capacity development programs aimed at increasing women's participation in political and economic decision-making in Romania after 1989. For example, organizations dealing with the prevention and combating of violence against women and children, including the Center for Mediation and Community Security (CMSC), were among the initiators of the Law on Combating Domestic Violence, which entered into force in 2003, and then contributed - thanks to good practices - to its development/improvement.

The achievements of NGOs have usually been promoted through Final Project Conferences and Annual Reports, but in recent years there has been an increasing number of “mutual learning” activities between EU Member States, and “knowledge derived and lessons learned” are requested in Final Project Reports. All this has led to an increase in the importance of “good practices” in interventions at any level of public policies, which has led to an increase in the quality of their implementation.