KARAT Coalition

Data gathering tours

Between January and April 2010, six young women from New Member States (NMS) including Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Latvia, Poland, Slovakia and Slovenia have visited Georgia, Macedonia and Serbia as part of data gathering tours. The aim of the tours was to collect data needed for the creation of the awareness raising materials that can serve as educational tools, and addressing development problems of women in developing countries of Eastern Europe, Caucasus in accessible, convincing not fragmented or sensationalized manner. The participants of the data gathering tours and the producers of the awareness raising tools used different means such as movies, blogs, toolkits to reach different target groups.

The awareness raising materials are mainly, but not exclusively, targeting young people in the specific NMS countries and are sources of reliable, solid information. It is hoped that they will mobilize public support in NMS for gender sensitive strategies and policies for development in Georgia, Macedonia and Serbia as well as other developing countries of Eastern Europe and Caucasus.
The materials have been produced in languages of their authors, however the movie Her Story and Toolkit “Gender Mainstreaming in Development Cooperation” are translated in English so they can be used across EU by different stake holders. We would like to encourage you use those awareness raising materials.

During the data gathering tours the participants have been supported by our local project partners organisations: Gender Media Caucasus Association from Georgia and Permaculture&Peacebuilding Center Shtip from Macedonia.

After careful selection process participants of data gathering tours, which are part of the “Through Their Eyes, Through Ours” project have been identified. Barbara Vodopivec from Slovenia, Katarina Medlova from Slovakia and Elizabeth Dimitrova from Bulgaria will go to Balkans. Paulina Jedrzejewska from Poland, Ilze Millere from Latvia and Mila Lukasova from Czech Republic will go Caucasia. After gathering the data they will produce and disseminate diverse awareness raising tools addressing development problems faced by women from developing countries from the EU Eastern Neighbourhood, Balkans and Central Asia. Barbara and Katerina will produce blogs with photographs, Elizabeth and Paulian will produce a YouTube films, Ilze will publish articles in women's magazine and Mila will develop a tool kit with workshop scenario. development problems faced by women from developing countries from the EU Eastern Neighbourhood, Balkans and Central Asia. For more information contact Ewa Pintera (ewa.pintera@karat.org.pl).

KARAT Coalition would like to invite you for the participation in the data gathering tours.

Those tours are the part of the project co-financed by European Commission, titled “Through Their Eyes through Ours, Raising the public’s awareness about development problems faced by women from developing countries in the EU Eastern Neighbourhood, Balkans and Central Asia".

The chosen applicants will go for 7 days to Caucasia and Balkans in order to collect data and create awareness raising tools like movies, photos, articles etc.

The call is directed to young women from Central European New Member States (NMS): Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia.

THE DEADLINE FOR THE APPLICATIONS HAS BEEN EXTENDED TILL 15TH, NOVEMBER, 2009.

More information and application you will find HERE.

If you would like more information or are interested in participating in the data gathering tours please contact Ewa Pintera (ewa.pintera@karat.org.pl).