Proposals Women's Rights
Colombia: Tech Female LatinAmerican Entrepreneurs
This project wants to give voice to entrepreneurial women in the technology sector. A 2014 study by the Inter American Development Bank showed that entrepreneur women with high impact endeavors face particular challenges. It also suggested the need to provide strong role models to build a positive attitude towards business entrepreneurship among women in particular and the society in general. This project wants to offer a digital space to those women to tell their stories and to learn to use digital tools to communicate with other women who may want to become entrepreneurs.
Netherlands: A Day in Her Life
A Day in Her Life will be a multimedia project by non-profit organization Voices of Women Media. The project seeks to empower women working in Amsterdam’s Red Light District by training them to use media tools to tell their stories. We want to provide an opportunity for participants to have a voice and express themselves in a creative way. Participants will create a multimedia body of work that they themselves will disseminate in their communities to raise awareness, thereby developing advocacy skills and challenging mainstream stereotypes and stigmas surrounding the sex industry.
Tanzania: The Global Suitcase Network (TGSN)
TGSN is an international mutual aid community without borders united by an online portal. TGSN provisions rural community groups with supplies for small scale community improvement projects & provides information on the assets and needs of these communities to members and the world at large. It is a niche project that utilizes international travelers to carry material supplies identified by rural groups at the TGSN portal. With the help of a local support person, groups will document the use of these supplies by creating a photo blog hosted by TGSN. Travelers expand their view of the world.
Nepal: Know Your Rights : Act Upon It!
The project is a campaign that kicks off with a two day workshop training 30 young women about women’s rights and how they can promote and create awareness about these rights to fellow young women. Today, internet is very powerful and Social media is an influential tool to advocate and reach out to young women and has multiple effects. During training, they will create a common online platform Blog, Facebook and Twitter page to share different women’s rights related information, issues and help young women to be aware about those rights and also seek solutions,, collaborate and take action.
Malawi: Behaviour Change, a Primary Factor Towards Self-reliance
Just as so many African countries in the sub sahara region, Malawi is one of the countries in this region that has numerous cases of bad cultural and social beliefs that are deterrent to development. With this background, it was necessary that deliberate mechanisms be effected so that the situation could start aggravating itself towards modern way of managing social interests for the good of the citizens living in these economies. Besides cultural and social mishaps as indicated in the preamble, technology is another factor that has negatively contributed to the growth of bad beliefs and pro
India: Inclusion of Rural Women Groups in ICT Programmes
There is an urgent need among rural Self Help Groups of Women to expose rural women to information communication and technology for socio-economic development and for establishing their human rights. This is mainly because of the discrimination of women in the information technologies where men occupy the digital environment predominantly. Main Goal of the project is to empower 1500 rural self help groups through ICT for sustainable development and economic empowerment and to eliminate discrimination between men and women in the development of ICT and to generate institutional capacity.
Kenya: Property and Inheritance Awareness Project
Overall description of the project: the project will involve building and/or enhancing the capacity of hopegivers organization to prevent and minimize women's human rights violation through training for appropriate skills, awareness raising and litigation assistance and foster peace and harmony among various ethnic groups in the project site. To provide precedent setting legal assistance (Test cases) to a maximum of 3 women who have been disinherited together with their children from the estate of their deceased spouses.
Gambia: Voice Against Force Marriages in Wuli
Force marriage is very common in this community and its causing a lot of problem such as girls dropping out from school very early, health related risks especially during delivery. The campaign would be carried out through a blog. The project seeks to raise awareness about the many dangers associated with the practice, the benefits of girls education and the legal frameworks regard women and girls that have been enacted by the country. It would provide live picture of the practice with interviews and videos with victims, parents, teachers, policymakers, social workers etc.
Ukraine: Gender Campaign “Why Should I Be Hired”
The problem of employment of women in recent years in Ukraine became especially important: state does not provide an adequate number of places for young professionals who graduated; private employers refuse to employ women and persons without work experience and persons over 40 years. The most pressing issue, especially in Lviv City and Lviv region, is ignoration by employers of women candidates in the provision of work. Employer Motivation: a future pregnancy, pay social payments associated with children, a number of benefits in performance, gender stereotypes, and so on.
Nigeria: Genderless Nigeria, Genderless Africa… Genderless Planet
To use educational perspectives to solving gender inequality and violence through media by enabling a platform to raise hopes and aspirations for girl-child in Nigeria, Africa and the world. To use students and schools as a team for the project as a catch-them-young approach to join other existing forces for gender inequalities like World Bank, United Nations to combat the challenge at the community, local, National and international level through acceptable media.
