NGO “League of Professional Women” (LPW) unite since 1997 different people for the common goal of expanding the social & economic opportunities of women in Ukraine.
Our mission is promoting the active role of women in the economic and society's life of Ukraine, through learning and professional development; advocacy and networking; informational & cultural support.
LPW is based in Ukraine and has members across the country from science, education, business and public spheres.
There are four main areas of LPW`s activities:
(1) advocacy & research;
(2) adult learning;
(3) women`s career development and
(4) organize and promote “Creative Social Actions” (CSA).
LPW has membership: CIVICUS, ITC SheTrade Global, Ukrainian side of the EU-Ukraine Civil Society Platform; UN Women's Major Group (WMG), UN Global Compact, Platform for “Equal rights and opportunity” and other organizations. For example, about LPW`s engagement (COE) with the United National Global Compact you can read here https://www.unglobalcompact.org/what-is-gc/participants/16742
Our 2018-year activities of the League of Professional Women`s leading multi-stakeholder initiative "Partnership on Adult Learning” were approved as "Good Practice on SDGs" by UN DESA in 2019\20 years. It's called "National Advocacy in Promoting Adult Learning Policy in Ukraine". See: #SDGAction30696
Women Economic Empowerment in Ukraine & Women`s Career Development by LPW. LPW has since 2018 its own initiate called as “Female Entrepreneurial and Intellectual Community by LPW” (Community).
The Community vision is the development of entrepreneurial skills of women and propose intellectual patronage for business in Ukraine. Currently, Community is operated as an internal LPW program and funded by LPW membership fees and occasional donations. LPW`s Community hosted a pilot 2019 women mentoring project in Kyiv, Ukraine with support of the CIVICUS and participants fees for the Phase 2 Walk& Talk mentoring project. See video of the Phase 1 Walk&Talk project (Kyiv, 2019).
Community`s communication channels are Facebook Group WE & Google`s tools (Group ListServ. LPW BusInfo-L” ), FB group: Women Entrepreneurship (WE) (FB group only for LPW`s members & advicers). LPW`s List Serve “LPW BusInfo-L”- electronic moderated dissemination announcements and information on individual travel grants, fellowships, scholarships, trainings, internships, ToRs for research, vacancies, business meetings, legal info etc. from other organizations to our network members. “LPW BusInfo-L” focuses on professional women learning and career`s needs.
Backgraund of the Communty was “Initiative Group on Supporting Women Entrepreneurship” (LPW IG SWE, administrated by LPW in 2013-2017). Brief of the group http://lpw.org.ua/en/news/?pid=642(2013-14). 2016 Position paper on Women Economic Empowerment in Ukraine (presented by LPW representative to NGOs component under the 60 session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) in 2016).
LPW`s external communication channels:
Web 1: http://www.lpw.org.ua (in reconstruction)
Facebook page YouTube: LPW Network LinkedIn Group
e-mail LPW office: communitylpw(at)gmail.com
Some examples of our grant projects: 2018 and 2019 grant project “What Should Be the Adult Learning Policy in Ukraine?” funded by EU & the International Renaissance Foundation within the framework of the Civic Synergy Project. Overview of these activities presented in the article:
Lazorenko, O. (2020). Civil Society as Driver in Democracy Discourse of Adult Learning Policy in Ukraine. Filosofska Dumka, (5), pp. 41–59 https://doi.org/10.15407/fd2020.05.041
2020\21 grant project «Women Learning Need Analysis in Ukraine» funded by CIVICUS Solidarity Fund. Project outcome was online and print publication in Ukrainian with Executive summary in English. Brochure`s citation is: Навчальні потреби жінок в Україні: аналітичний звіт дослідження /Лазоренко О.О., Чала Н.Д., Гомілко О.Є., Кожина А.В. Київ: Видавництво «Стилос», 2021. 104 с. ISBN 978-966-2399-65-3
The title of the brochure in English translation: The Women`s Learning Needs in Ukraine: analytic research report / Lazorenko O.O., Chala N.D., Gomilko O.E., Kozhyna A.V. Kyiv: Stilos Publishing House, 2021. 104 p. (in Ukrainian)
Online Analytical report in Ukrainian here. The Analytical report has an Executive summary in English online.
English version Video at YouTube https://youtu.be/0XzmduMa7uk 1 min
Ukrainian version Video at YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hgGjuUswHfM - 5mim30c
This is selected publications on SDGs in English:
Olena Lazorenko. Nina Chala (2020). Brief Statement on the Current Civil Society Organizations Review of SDGs Process in Ukraine // Presented under 2020 Virtual Civil Society Forum, UNECE RFSD 18.03.2020. Kyv. –5р.
Olena Lazorenko, Olga Gomilko, NinaChala. Policy Note: Comments on the draft dated 14.05.2020 "Voluntary National Review: Sustainable Development Goals: Ukraine" -Kyiv : NGO "League of Professional Women", electronic document: 26.05.2020.- 7 p (in Ukrainian)
Thematic Report on SDG4-Education 2030. League of Professional Women - Para 89 - HLPF 2019\\Inputs to the High-level Political Forum on Sustainable Development. USA, New York. 2019 https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/index.php?page=view&type=30022&nr=2250&menu=3170
Lazorenko Olena. Arts and the Sustainable Development Goals. An experience report on their Adaption for Urban Development in Ukraine, Arts Management Quarterly, Issue No. 127. · October 2017 - p.19-24. Available from http://artsmanagement.net/images/file/newsletter/AMN_Quarterly_127.pdf https://www.academia.edu/35008338/Arts_Management_Quarterly_No_127_Culture_and_Urban_Development Olena Lazorenko, League of Professional Women and Institute of Philosophy of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine: Democratising the policy dialogue on SDG localisation: the experience of the League of Professional Women in Ukraine. Available from https://www.civicus.org/index.php/re-imagining-democracy/stories-from-the-frontlines/3375-democratising-the-policy-dialogue-on-sdg-localisation-the-experience-of-the-league-of-professional-women-in-Ukraine