Project Duration: 01/07/2025 – 31/12/2027

Sources of funding: Kvinna Till Kvinna Foundation

Project lead: Akcija Zdruzenska Акција Здруженска

Overall objective: Enhancing the participation and influence of women in local planning, decision-making and the development of gender-responsive policies and budgets Enhancing women’s participation and influence in local planning and decision-making processes, as well as in the development of gender-responsive policies and budgets.

Specific Objectives

• Maintaining and further developing the field-based model for strengthening local women’s groups, with the aim of enabling women’s circles to independently initiate, organize, and lead advocacy processes before local institutions, as a regular and sustainable practice within the community. и проширување на теренскиот Maintaining and expanding the field model for strengthening local women’s groups, enabling women’s circles to independently initiate, organize, and lead advocacy processes before local institutions as a regular and embedded practice within the community. женските кружоци самостојно да иницираат, организираат и водат застапувачки процеси пред локалните институции како редовна и вградена практика во заедницата.
• Enhancing the organizational, programmatic, and administrative capacities of local women’s organizations through long-term, flexible institutional support that will enable a transition from project-based to programmatic planning and budgeting, ensuring continuity and more effective use of resources to create visible changes in municipalities. Enhancing the organizational, programmatic, and administrative capacities of local women’s organizations through long-term and flexible institutional support, enabling a shift from project-based to program-based planning and budgeting, while ensuring continuity and more efficient use of resources to achieve visible changes at the local level.
• Building and strengthening horizontal alliances between women’s organizations and women from the communities by creating spaces for exchange, mutual support, and solidarity, as well as fostering coordinated advocacy for advancing women’s civic participation and promoting gender-responsive policies and budgets at the local and national levels. хоризонтални алијанси помеѓу женските организации и жените од заедниците, поттикнувајќи простори за размена, меѓусебна поддршка, солидарност и координирано застапување за женското граѓанско учество и за родово одговорни политики и буџети на локално и национално ниво.
• Ensuring continuous monitoring and systematic evidence collection on the implementation of gender equality commitments, with a particular focus on the practical integration of the gender perspective into local policies, services, and budgets, as well as tracking progress in the implementation of the new Law on Gender Equality.

Очекувани резултати

• Strengthened advocacy capacity of 6 local women’s organizations (Association Radika-De Debar, Civic Initiative of Women – CIW Sveti Nikole, Humanitarian Association “Mother” – Kumanovo, Association “Women’s Action” – Radoviš, Women’s Organization – Strumica, Citizens’ Association OW “Women’s Lobby” – Demir Kapija).
• Improved autonomy and functionality of women’s circles in 50 settlements for conducting local advocacy and community activities. женските кружоци во 50 населби за спроведување локални застапувачки и заеднициски активности.
• Increased visibility and influence of local women and organizations in decision-making processes across 13 municipalities.