The Project:

"TEST ON DIALOGUE"

TPO Foundation in cooperation with Medica Zenica in October has launched the public campaign "Test for Dialogue!'' This public campaign is a follow up of the activities of the project ''Increasing Awareness on Gender Based Violence and the Role of Women in Multirreligious Dialogue'' which was supported by UNIFEM.
The public campaign will engage 15 participants who passed the training in 2010 and 13 participants who passed the training in 2009. All participants are NGO representatives from Sarajevo, Tuzla, Zenica, Mostar, Banja Luka, Velika Kladuša, Srebrenik, Maglaj, Bihać, Bosanski Petrovac, Gradiška, Bijeljina, Višegrad and Sanski Most.
Within the campaign, gatherings that involve citizens of different ethnic and religious background will be organized on several locations with an aim to raise awareness on respect of differences.
OUR MESSAGE IS: "Test for dialogue"aiming to discover to what extent we are ready to accept other people and those who are different, and to what extent we want to learn, to grow and to act for the common good.

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The Project:

INCREASING AWARENESS ON GENDER BASED VIOLENCE AND THE ROLE OF WOMEN IN INTERRELIGIOUS DIALOGUE

TPO Foundation in cooperation with Medica Zenica has launched the Project:
''INCREASING AWARENESS ON GENDER BASED VIOLENCE AND THE ROLE OF WOMEN IN INTERRELIGIOUS DIALOGUE'' which will be implemented in the period of July 2010 - February 2011.

The main objective is to increase local community awareness on women's human rights with particular attention to gender-based violence and interreligious dialogue by building the capacities of civil society organisations and religious organizations and groups to promote, advocate and protect women's human rights.

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101 REASON TO VOTE FOR WOMAN

TPO Foundation in cooperation with INFOHOUSE, CURE Foundation, and 10 NGOs, in 36 towns and 105 rural areas in B&H from B&H, implements the project 101 reason to vote for woman. The project is implemented with the support of Swiss Cooperation Office in Bosnia and Herzegovina (SDC) and Heinrich Böll Foundation.

Preparations started in mid March, and on April 15, the first press conference will be held where public will be informed on plan of activities for the next seven months.

Although B&H constitutional-legal framework guarantees equal rights for both men and women, in practise, only 17% of women participate in the political life. To change such situation and to advance status of women in politics, TPO Foundation, INFOHOUSE, CURE Foundation and 10 local NGOs, joined in effort to conduct largest awareness raising media campaign and education up to date, promoting importance of voting for women, with particular emphasis on women voting for women.

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The Project:

TRENING-SEMINAR: Modification of the social and cultural patterns of conduct of men and women in Bosnia and Herzegovina

TPO Foundation supported by UNIFEM is preparing and organising training for NGO representatives on: Modification of the social and cultural patterns of conduct of men and women in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
The training aims to:
- contribute to implementation of article 5 of the CEDAW convention
- and Resolution 1325 on Women, Peace and Security.

The project will be finalized with Round table scheduled for the end of September 2009, where both Training package Manual and Book produced by authors of the training will be presented.

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The Project:

''TEACHING RELIGION AT UNIVERSITIES IN B&H''

In cooperation with University of Zenica and University of Banja Luka , Transcultural psychosocial educational organization (TPO) Sarajevo started a Project "Democratization through reform of education - teaching religion at universities in B&H''

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The Project:

"Modification of the social and cultural patterns of conduct of
men and women in Bosnia and Herzegovina"

The project is designed as a pilot of a larger scale project that aims to contribute to the implementation of article 5 of the CEDAW convention:

To modify the social and cultural patterns of conduct of men and women with a view to achieving the elimination of prejudices and customary practices based on the idea of the inferiority or the superiority of sexes or on stereotyped roles for men and women.

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The Project:

Social inclusion of Women Returnees in B&H

In cooperation with Zene BiH and other relevant partners, and with the financial support of Norwegian Royal Ministry of Foreign affairs, in December, 2008, TPO lounged the project ''Social inclusion of Women Returnees in B&H'' aiming to enable social inclusion.......

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The Project:

Women, Religion and Politics

The Project Women, Religion and Politics was conducted by Dr. Zilka Spahić-Šiljak in the Bosnia and Herzegovina region with the support of TPO Foundation and IMIC Center. The project duration was three years (2004-2005), and the final output was publishing the book with the same title: Women, Religion and Politics Analysis of Influence of Interpretative Religious Traditions in Bosnia and Herzegovina on Participation of Women in Public Life in Bosnia and Herzegovina -Judaism, Christianity, Islam.

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