Anna Lindh Foundation

Women Action

National Network

Montenegro

Address

Ratka Vujovica 8 Niksic Montenegro

Country

Montenegro

City

Niksic

Street address 2

Ratka Vujovica 8

Mobile Phone

+38269046338

Telephone

+38269046338

Telephone (other)

+38267646338

E-Mail

womenaction@t-com.me

E-Mail (2)

sslavica@t-com.me

E-Mail (3)

mimanenezic@yahoo.com

E-Mail (4)

ljiljanenezic@yahoo.com

Year of Establishment

2000

Contact Person1

Ms Milica Jagodic

Contact Person 2

Ms Ljiljana Nenezic

Organisation Type

Non-Governmental Organization

Fields of Activity

Human rights

General Information

“"Women Action" is a simple-structured Organisation with the functions of: - Managing Board - Main Board -Council -Activists Budgetary sources are international donor organizations (UNIFEM, UNDP, NPA, MamaCash, Council of Europe,...) and average per year is 30 - 90 thousands euros. Women’s Action has already been well known by its concrete results that are consequences of a series of couple-of-year activities undertaken:  Initiating and coordinating amendments to the current legislation (Law on Women’s Quota, Law on Family Planning etc.)  Organisation of international experts’ conferences, seminars and educational meetings on current Gender issues  Public presentations of editions, magazines and documents based upon Gender principles  Coordination of extensive sociological and statistic researches on women’s population in Montenegro  Coordinating construction works of modern children’s playgrounds (covering more than 20.000 m² up to date)  Organisation of further specialised educative trainings for unemployed women

Mission and Objectives

Women’s Action is the Montenegrin non-governmental women’s organisation which directs its energy toward one single objective: EQUAL, SELF-CONSCIOUS, POLITICALLY AND ECONOMICALLY EMPOWERED WOMAN IN MONTENEGRO Women’s Action creates the space for: * Political promotion of women on all decision-making positions; * Women’s economic empowerment; * Creating equal and well-balanced Gender relations;

Main Projects / Activities

Women’s Action has already been well known by its concrete results that are consequences of a series of couple-of-year activities undertaken: * Initiating and coordinating amendments to the current legislation (Law on Women’s Quota, Law on Family Planning etc.) * Organisation of international experts’ conferences, seminars and educational meetings on current Gender issues * Public presentations of editions, magazines and documents based upon Gender principles * Coordination of extensive sociological and statistic researches on women’s population in Montenegro * Coordinating construction works of modern children’s playgrounds (covering more than 20.000 m² up to date) * Organisation of further specialised educative trainings for unemployed women