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East-West: ZhIP

last updated 12 December 2004
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Regional Public Organization  East-West: Women’s Innovation Projects”

 

Organization has been registered in 1993, is working at present as informational analytic agency, and is leader in introduction of gender approach. Agency is realizing collection/selection and target distribution of information: news on gender issues, annotations of publications, monographs, researches, reports, statistic reviews. Agency is also realizing projects in the sphere of gender education. The main tool in the work of agency – informational and communicational technologies. 

 

MISSION OF RPO “Vostok-Zapad: ZhIP”

Assistance to building a prosperous democratic society of equal rights and opportunities for men and women through changing of stereotypes of social awareness by means of informational and educational activities.

TARGET OF RPO “Vostok-Zapad: ZhIP”

1. Integration of gender approach into:

-          1.1. processes of  making of social, economic and political decisions;

-          1.2. processes of forming of social awareness;

-          1.3. processes of  science and education development;

2. Creation of adequate conception of international community about the situation in the sphere of gender equality in Russia Federation.

 

TASKS OF RPO “Vostok-Zapad: ZhIP”:

1.1.   To assist to women’s promotion to power through:

1.1.1.        Rendering of informational space

1.1.2.        Informational support for women who are ready to go to power

1.1.3.        Rendering of analytical information on gender subjects to persons participating in decision making;

1.1.4.        Distribution of results of the monitoring on gender component in programs of political parties and movements to stimulate its involvement;

1.2.1.        Intensification of public discussion through

-          increase of publications number

-          involvement into power

-          “opinion leaders”

-          persons who influence on decision making

1.2.2.        Providing access to informational resources for mass media;

1.3.1.   Providing access to informational resources for representatives of science and education

1.3.2.   Creation of informational resources for scientists and teachers/students

2.1. Regular informing of mass media and international organizations about improvement of the situation.

 

Since 1994, ZhIP realized its programs under support of the German women’s Foundation “Frauen-Anstiftung”, since 1997 – under support of Heinrich-Boell-Foundation. Those programs were directed at creation and development of informational resources for women, establishing of informational exchange and consolidation of relations with international women’s movement.

 

RPO “Vostok-Zapad: ZhIP” has two registered mass media:

1. Site “Open Women Line” (Mass Media Registration Certificate El N 77-2768) – today it developed into informational portal on subject “Woman and Society” – with weekly dispatching of informational digests - http://www.owl.ru

2. Social and educational magazine “Woman Plus…” (1500 copies) http://www.owl.ru/win/womplus/


Specialists of organization:
Babich Natalia - president of ZhIP, IT specialist;
Grishina Galina - general director of ZhIP;
Denisova Alla - editor, ph D.;
Rilnikova Irina - magazine main editor;
Leikina Elena - accounter;

 

 

 

PROJECTS of “East-West: Women’s Innovation Projects” 1994-2003

 

 

Duration

Title

Product

Financial support

Respons.persons.

1994-1995

“Distance learning with telematics

Work out 4 distance courses  and 150 women frfom 8 regions got trainings via ICT

 

TACIC EC

Babich N.

Grishina G.

1995-1996

"Women as pathfinders on information superhighway”

ICT tranings for abroad partners, creation of manual for management of women’s NGO via ICT

TACIC EC

Babich N.

Grishina G.

1994- till present time

Magazine "Woman Plus…"

www.owl.ru/win/womplus/
www.owl.ru/eng/womplus/

Social educational magazine

Henrih Boell Foundation, Global Fund for Women

 

Grishina G.,

Kachalova J.

Rilnikova I.

1996-1999

Electronic documentation centre

www.owl.ru

 

Work out of on-line databases and virtual biblio centre

Henrih Boell Foundation

Babich N.

 

 

1996- till present time

Site "Open Women Line"

www.owl.ru

Information portal “Women&Society

Henrih Boell Foundation

Babich N.

Grishina G.

2000

«Changing of society through women’s art»

http://owl.ru/morits/index.htm

Creation of Internet site for famous Russian poet Unna Moritc

Mama Cash

Grishina G.

Zagoreckaya E.

2000

«Women’s agenda»

iw.owl.ru

Creation of Catalogue “Internet to Women!”(hard copy - 1000 is.) and electronic version. More than 2000 links with annatations in 14 themes.

Women’s network program of Open Society Institute (Soros Foundation)

 

Babich N.

Grishina G.,

Denisova A.

2001

"Women in partnership: policy – society – business. Vital Voices”

http://owl.ru/vitalvoices/index.htm

Creation of site

Women’s network program of Open Society Institute (Soros Foundation)

 

Babich N.

 

2001-2002

“Gender education for everybody! Gender terms reference book”

http://www.owl.ru/gender/index.htm

Creation of Reference book (hard copy - 3000 is..) and electronic version. Distance work with 49 authors. Reference includes 379 articles.

Canadian gender fund

Grishina G.

Denisova A.

2002

“Internet for women!”

www.owl.ru

www.owl.ru/english

Developing of information portal “Women&Society” (Mass Media about women and international news lins). Developing and promotion of English version of portal “Women&Society

Women’s network program of Open Society Institute (Soros Foundation)

 

Babich N.

 

2002-2003

“Thesaurus of gender terms”

Developing of linguistic equipment, search mechanism to resource on gender themes.

Women’s network program of Open Society Institute (Soros Foundation)

 

Denisova A.

2002-2003

«Elimination of sex based discrimination is the one way to human rights  realization: No sexism!”

Work our of mechanism of public reaction on sex based discrimination in Mass Media, cooperation between NGOs of different spheres.

Switzerland Human Rights and Civil Social Development Programme Russia

Babich N.

Grishina G.

Denisova A.

 

 

 

RPO "East-West: ZhIP" collaborates with following organizations: Information Center of Independent Women's Forum (Moscow), non-commercial partnership "Focus" (Moscow), Consortium of Women's non-governmental Organizations (Moscow), The Kola Peninsula Congress of Women (Murmansk), Women's Public Organization "Femina"(Naberzhnye Chelny), Electronic Documentation Center (Moscow region), Center "Contemporary Woman" (Moscow), The Movement of Russian Women (Moscow) etc. Women's information network (Moscow).

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