The Project "Recovering Capacity of Ukrainian Women Network for Advocacy & Analytics Activities"
The 4-month project of the League of Professional Women (abbreviated as the LPW) "Recovering capacity" received support in mid-October 2022 through the regranting scheme of the Civil Society Forum of the Eastern Partnership (CSF EaP) and continues until January 30, 2023. The project is focused on recovering the capacity of the Ukrainian women's network, which has 25 years of activity in analytics and advocacy at the national and international levels, empowerment of women and networking.
The analytical and advocacy activities of the LPW focus on four main areas:
(a) Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs);
(b) Adult Learning and Education (ALE);
(c) Women`s emprowement ;
(d) European integration.
Representatives of the LPW ( member of Working Group 4, "Contacts between people" of the Ukrainian National Platform of the CSF EaP) work professionally in science, education, business and the public sphere and are currently suffering from the consequences of Russia's full-scale war against Ukraine. The project aims to help them recovering their capacity for analytical and advocacy activities at the national and international levels.
This sub-page of the website was created as part of the project "Recovering Capacity of Ukrainian Women Network for Advocacy & Analytics Activities", which is implemented by the NGO "League of Professional Women" through the regranting scheme of the Civil Society Forum of the Eastern Partnership and is financed by the European Union as part of its support for civil society in the region.
The content of the sub-page is the sole responsibility of the NGO "League of Professional Women" and in no way reflects the point of view of the European Union or the Eastern Partnership Civil Society Forum.
Our project and its directions:
Development cooperation with partners from Ukraine and abroad:
The LPW actively engages in networking and builds mutually beneficial cooperation with potential and existing partners. Also, we sign memorandums of cooperation to maintain a fruitful direct dialogue in the future. Those interested in closer cooperation and partnership with the LPW can contact Olena Lazorenko email: lpw.network(at)gmail.com and Nina Chala email: nchala92(at)gmail.com.
Below are the memorandums\ letters concluded during the implementation of the project:
Memorandum of the League of Professional Women with Salzburg Global Seminar (Austria based)
Memorandum of the League of Professional Women with RITO Ltd. (Ukraine)
League of Professional Women has voting membership in CIVICUS now! (before LPW has associate membership). CIVICUS is worldwide community of civil society organizations.
Recreation of the LPW's mobile office
After the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine started, the LPW closed its office and tried to redeploy equipment and personnel. Now, considering the new circumstances, the LPW will restore its mobile office and partly, technical capabilities.
Capacity development for advocacy activities of public experts
First, our leader, Olena Lazorenko, prepared an electronic edition of the Advocacy Guide. It is designed to help public experts to organize dialogue with government institutions and strengthen their influence on decision-making in Ukraine. The Guide includes helpful information for civil society organizations and practical cases in the following areas: sustainable development goals, adult learning and education, women's empowerment and European integration.
Second, the Guide published in electronic format and made public on the sub-page LPW web and publishing house in January 2023.
Thirdly, we disseminated information about this Guide and its practical cases among interested parties (including WG4 UNP SCF EaP and WG 6 US PCS) through e-mailing and conducting events in hybrid formats (synchronous and asynchronous) in January 2023.
Each case author will prepare a video presentation that posted on the LPW's YouTube channel.
Guide`s Virtual Presentation (Synchronous event)
On the 23rd of January, 2023, the League of Professional Women organized the webinar-presentation of the Advocacy Guide on zoom.
Watch the video recording of the event on our YouTube channel.
The speakers' presentations and a short report in Ukrainain of the webinar presentation from 23January 23 are available on the website
Asynchronous video presentations of cases
"Best practices of advocacy activities of women's organizations"
Each case author was asked to prepare a video presentation of the case, and we posted the prepared video presentations on the YouTube channel of League.
Read and watch more about it here.
Guide`s Asynchronous Presentations
Our colleagues from Kyiv, Kharkiv and Lviv joined the organization of asynchronous events in January 2023:
Rodion Kolyshko (Kyiv, virtual format)
Svetlana Haponyk (Kharkiv, in-person format)
Ivan Kulchytskyi (Lviv, virtual format)