În cadrul consultărilor ONU cu privire la noua agendă de dezvoltare care, începând cu 2015, va înlocui actuala strategie de dezvoltare promovată de Națiunile Unite “Obiectivele de Dezvoltare ale Mileniului – Millennium Development Goals” (MDG), între 25 și 27 martie, a avut loc în Bali (Indonezia) Meeting of the High Level Panel of Eminent Persons on the Post 2015 Development Agenda. În cadrul acestei ultime întâlniri consultative cu voci ale societății civile globale, s-a desfășurat și Masa Rotundă "Women's rights and global partnership in post 2015 development agenda". Printre cele 5 vorbitoare s-a numărat și Irina Costache, reprezentanta A.L.E.G, care a avut o intervenție importantă referitoare la necesitatea includerii problematicii drepturilor femeilor ca obiectiv important al agendei de dezvoltare post 2015. La toate aceste întâlniri Irina a participat și în calitate de reprezentant al rețelei europene ASTRA, din care A.L.E.G. face parte. În imagine, Irina Costache, împreună cu Justine Greening, Secretar de Stat pentru Dezvoltare Internațională a Marii Britanii .
On 8 March at 11 a.m. Transcena and A.L.E.G. will launch in parallel in Bucharest and Sibiu THE NATIONAL STUDY ON THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE PROTECTION ORDER at a press conference hosted by the Bucharest National Library and respectively the ASTRA Sibiu Library. You may download the study here.
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Thanks to the funds collected in the previous year we managed to support 27 women who were victims of violence. Our association pays for its services through various European projects, sponsorships and donations, without any funds from the local or state authorities.
Camelia Proca, A.L.E.G. director, received the trophy Woman of the Year 2012 under the section “Supportive Innitiatives” at the national gala Woman of the Year, organized by Avantaje Magazine and AVON – Campaign for Respect. The prize was awarded for “professionalism and consistency in activities promoting gender equality and combating gender violence”, mentioning in particular the Gender Equality Festival organized yearly by A.L.E.G. The editor in chief of Avantaje Magazine attended last year’s festival in Sibiu and an article was published in the October issue 2012.
In 2015, the current international development framework “The Millennium Development Goals” which guided UN activities since 2000 will be replaced with a new strategy. Among the main Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), Gender Equality and Improving Maternal Health and Reducing the spread of HIV/AIDS featured prominently, issues that fall within the mission statement of A.L.E.G.
In 2015, the current international development framework “The Millennium Development Goals” which guided UN activities since 2000 will be replaced with a new strategy. Among the main Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), Gender Equality and Improving Maternal Health and Reducing the spread of HIV/AIDS featured prominently, issues that fall within the mission statement of A.L.E.G.
At present, numerous NGOs, governments and other significant stakeholders are coming together in regional and global meetings in order to assess the outcomes of the MDG framework as well as to identify new challenges that demand coordinated efforts by the international community. Debates over what issues should be included in this new strategy are already on their wayas a global consultation process – The World We Want.
A.L.E.G is contributing to the MDG review process as part of its advocacy strategy on gender equality and women’s rights.
Irina Costache prepared and presented a report on health priorities reflecting A.L.E.G.’s mission statement and the interests of its beneficiaries at a regional consultation organized by ASTRA Network and Eastern European Alliance for Reproductive Choice (EEARC), held in Moscow on 26-27th of January 2013.
The report, titled “Framing the Future Goal in CEE- Views from Romania” stressed the importance of promoting the principle of universal health coverage for overcoming inequalities in access to quality health care and proposed as future development health areas improving women’s health and access to sexual and reproductive health and rights. The report also gives a thorough overview of changes in the health system in Romania and its impact on the MDGs addressing health and gender equality.
rina will also travel to Botswana to take part in the high-level meeting, bringing together government representatives, NGO coalitions and key UN partners, on health priorities in the post 2015 development agenda where she will be presenting the views expressed in the outcome document of the ASTRA-EEARC meeting in Moscow.
Camelia Proca and Eniko Gall met A.L.E.G’s international partners in the newly approved DAPHNE Project LOG IN - Laboratories on Gender Violence in New Media, at the kick off meeting in Modena, Italy, in February 2013. The project is led by Modena City, with partners from Cyprus, Lithuania, Belgium and Romania. The project will be implemented over a period of 2 years and will elaborate and pilot a training package for teenagers and one for teachers and parents, using interactive methods, peer education and online instruments. In Sibiu, the project will involve over 1000 high-school students and 400 teachers and parents, with the help of the Schools Inspectorate Sibiu, our associated partner.
