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ZhIF - Zhensky Innovatsionny Fond "Vostok-Zapad" in Russian
or Women's Innovation Fund "East-West" in English


Other projects 

"Information as a tool for change". ZhIF acts together with CREW (Belgium) and St.- Petersburg Centre on Gender Issues. The project is sponsored by EC TACIS Democracy Program (1995-1996) and aimed at increasing qualification of women-representatives of independent and basic press.

"Transmission democracy to Russia: supporting the establishment of women's rights in Russia". In 1995 ZhIF gave birth to a new organisation - "Electronic Documentation Centre", which acted as a Russian coordinator of the this project. This is a common project with AIDoS (Italy) and KEGME (Greece), aimed at establishing Documentation Centres with a specialized library on women's rights, and the creation of regional documentation network. This project is co-financed by EC TACIS Democracy programme  and UNPFA, 1995-1996.

"Women's electronic business incubator". (WEBIN) Project on network for consulting on women's business incubators.

"Political educaton for women via telematics". Project on the creation of a model for services to empower women. Web-site for women.

"Capacity building of a service center for women's organizations in Russia". A new project of EDC to develop women's documentation centers and expand the regional documentation network


You can return to ZhIF's home page or  to OWL's home page 
1997