1. R EVIEW POLFEM LOCAL CAMPAIGN Elections European Parliament 2014

2. P ROJECT ACTIVITIES 1.) Trainings/Workshops “ More Women in Politics’ 2.) Media campaign : social media 3.) Making PolFem visible

3. 1.) T RAININGS /W ORKSHOPS M ORE W OMEN IN P OLITICS : WHY AND HOW ? Who? women + 18 ani, members of Women’s Organisation of political parties, with or without decison making positions. Why? Key actor in supporting women Where? Bucharest and Timisoara How many workshops? 4 How many participants? 150 women 3 main topics A. Arguments for more women into politics. B. What kind of problems women confront with? Making gender violence and work life balance polical issues. C. How to cooperate and make their work more visible.

4. P OL F EM W ORKSHOPS Workshop 1 : 17th of February- Women’s Organisation of Liberal Democratic Party Place: Liberal Democratic Party Headquarter (first district) Workshop 2: 18th of February- Women’s Organisation of Social Democratic Party Place: Social Democratic Party Headquarter Workshop 3: 24th of March- Women’s Organisation of Liberal Democratic Party Place: Liberal Democratic Party Headquarter (third district) Workshop 4: 31st of May Timisoara women from political parties – local organisations (local and county councils, MP, prefect ) Place: City Business

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11. D EBATES : QUESTIONS / ISSUES RAISED BY WOMEN NGOs Poor communication with women’s NGOs: general mistrust in political parties + NGOs more interested in amending public policies and less in actively supporting more women into politics. Political parties Women’s organizations within political parties are the last on the list when distributing resources (decision making positions when gaining power). They are united by the same problems despite belonging to different political parties and they are aware of – not ideology, but gender. They do the hard work: conscious of active membership, and less rewarding. They lack communication with other women from the same party. Lack of solidarity among women in politics (general). Media stereotyping

12. M EDIA CAMPAIGN : SOCIAL MEDIA F ACEBOOK P AGE P OL F EM

13. F ACEBOOK P AGE P OL F EM 1.) Logo : PolFem 2.) Hashtag #PolFem 3.) Topics on FB Page 4.) Photos with short strong motivational messages (+ intersectionality)

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20. F ACEKOOK PAGE POLFEM Likes: 1410. Fans: 79% women, 1236 from Romania, 28 UK, 19 Germany, Bucharest, Timisoara, Cluj Most active : age 25-34 (33%) Reach : over 15.100 views People engaged : 81% women Most active : age 25-34 (37%)

21. A RTICLES ON BLOGS Monitoring the campaign and reacting over 12 articles Mainstream media Platform Adevarul Feminism Romania CriticAtac Reach

22. E UROPEAN P ARLIAMENT History 2007: 12 women out of 34 2009: 11 women out of 33 2014: 11 women out of 32

23. M AKE P OL F EM VISIBLE Additional Presentations of PolFem University: students (Political Participation and Representation of Women) Women in business (Conference on Women’s Entrepreneurship) EIGE : European Institute for Gender Equality (online discussion “Women and Men Inspiring Europe invited to discuss about the challenges women face accessing decision-making positions, both at political and economic level” Meeting candidates for European Parliament: Open Society Institute (candidates for EP): how they integrate or relate with gender interests/ women’s interests EuroSfat (roundtable with members of national MPs and EMP)

24. . Thank you! https://www.facebook.com/polfem Oana B ă luţ ă : oana.baluta@gmail.comoana.baluta@gmail.com Andreea Molocea: andreea.molocea@gmail.comandreea.molocea@gmail.com