1. Capacity Development for Gender Subgroups of National Platforms in Armenia, Georgia, Belarus and Ukraine

2. PROJECT IMPLEMENTED BY:
Lead Organization: Women’s Resource Center, Armenia Partner Organizations: Women’s Political Resource Centre, Georgia Belarusian Organization of Working Women Bureau of Gender Strategy and Budgeting

3. PROJECT GOAL
To develop capacities of organizations of National Platforms in four countries (Armenia, Belarus, Georgia and Ukraine) in gender audit and gender analysing

4. PROJECT OBJECTIVES
Develop specialists in gender auditing and gender analyses
Develop advocacy plan for Gender Audit of selected organizations in National Platforms
To raise visibility about gender issues in National Platforms

5. Strengthened network of gender subgroupes
PROJECT OUTCOMES
Developed capacities of gender subgroups of National Platform in gender analyses and gender auditing
Developed skills of gender mainstreaming among gender subgroups of National Platforms
Developed joint module on Gender Auditing by gender subgroups of four countries
Strengthened network of gender subgroupes

6. TARGET GROUP Gender subgroups of National Platforms
Women’s organizations
Individual activists/researchers in gender issues in Armenia, Belarus, Georgia and Ukraine

7. PROJECT ACTIVITIES Development and Publication of a Joint Module
TOT in Gender Auditing
Development and Publication of a Joint Module
Development of an Advocacy Plan
Local Trainings

8. PROJECT IMPACT
Through the project, women’s civil society organizations in four countries will obtain knowledge and skills of gender budgeting and gender analyses, and will use those skills in their work, as well as for their advocacy and lobbying purposes.
The outcome of the project will be also a preparation of a module on Gender Auditing that can be used by other National Platforms, as well as by gender specialists in Eastern Partnership Countries
Capacity building of local NGOs on the issues of gender mainstreaming in general

9. SUMMARY
Following the capacity development trainings the organizations of National Platforms of Eastern Partnership will be able to implement gender component in policies, programs, administrative and financial activities and in organizational procedures, thereby contributing to a profound and sustainable organizational transformation.