17/10/2011
European Women’s Lobby member organisations’
Activities Report 2010
Please use this document to report on your national or European organisation’s activities in 2010 and send it back before March 30 2011 to ewl@womenlobby.org - Please note that a compilation of the member’s reports will be disseminated and put on the EWL website.
- Section 1 on activities led by your organisation in 2010
- Section 2 on quantitative information about events attended and organised (as requested by our European Progress Programme reporting).
Name of organisation: Italian Coordination of the Europen Women's Lobby / Lef-Italia
Contact person filling the form and email: Maria Ludovica Tranquilli-Leali – Secretary General
Section 1: Reporting on Activities led by your organisation in 2010 (maximum 1 A4 page):
1. Activities undertaken in relation to EWL actions / priorities[1]. :
Social Policy :
speech by the Secretary General on “The EWL and the EU reconciliatiation policies” - European Region Conference on Reconciliation between family and professional life organized by the Veneto Region – Abano Terme (PD) -28th-29th-30th January 2010.
E U Gender Equality and Antidiscrimination Policies and Legislation:
speech by the Secretary General on “ The development of EU gender policy” - Seminar on “ Women in the European Union” organized by Cefial with the support of the EU Commission ( Representation in Milan) - Milan – Palazzo delle Stelline - 5th March 2010
Participation by the Secretary General at the Final Conference of the IBPP “ Promoting a Culture of Women's Rights in Uzbekistan . An Integrated Project to Reduce Social Marginality and Empower Vulnerable Women in Tashkent, Kokand and Novoi” - Tashkent (Uzbekistan) -29th October 2010
Women's Economic Independence
speech by the General Secretary on “EU gender policies, Entrapreneurship, Networking and Lobbying Strategies” guest speaker at the final Conference
“Women Empowerment- EU Dimension” of the IBPP Project to Reduce Social Marginalityand Empower Vulnerable Women in Kokchetav, Chimkent, Taraz, &Embeshi-Kazakh Region – Almaty (Kazakhstan)- 12th April 2010
speech by the Secretary General on “ The EU and women's entrapreneurship” -
M'imprendo Project– Rome , 11th November 2010- Eu Commission Representation in Rome
Via IV Novembre, 149
Women and Migration
Speech by the Secretary General on “The experience of the European Women's Lobby and Lef-Italia in tackling the problems of migrant women in the EU” and workshop at the Final Conference of the IBPP for Russia “Building Capacities and networks for immigrant and ethnic minority women: an integrated approach and project to fight gender and ethnic discrimination in Russia “- Yaroslav (Russia) 15-16th April 2010 (Lef- Italia has been one of the partner of the project)
Lecture by the General Secretary on “EU policies for migrant women”- 3dt University of Rome – Faculty of Sociology and Social Services – Rome - 22nd March 2010- P.zza della Repubblica.
Violence against Women
Organization of a Debate on “ The Law Decree 11/09 (against stalking) and the EU actions in matters of violence against women” with the participation of the Information Office of the EU Parliament for Italy – Rome- 6th May 2010- Sala delle Bandiere – Via IV Novembre 149
Women's Rights in an International Contest
Coorganization with the Women's Interamerican Commission (CIM) and Cefial with the support of the EU Commission Representation in Milan of The Conference “ Strengthen the strategic relationship EU and Latin America – and speech by the Secretary General on “ The actions towards women's empowerment “ within the sesssion “ Beijing+15 in the EU and in Latin America: Women in decision making”. Lef-Italia is also a coofunder of the Euro-Latin American Women's Forum, launched during the same event – Milan 24th-25th September 2010, Palazzo delle Stelline, Sala Volta.
Participation of the President Siusi Casaccia and the Secretary General to the Conference “WOMANist – International Istanbul Women's Meeting” on invitation of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Mediterranean and organized By Istanbul Reserch Centre on Women (IKAM) and to the special session “How women NGOs and Women Parliamentarian could work better together”- Istanbul - 5-6th November 2010- Harbive Congress Centre.
2. Highlights from your work/situation/ projects at national level or in your European organisation
Lef-Italia has actively partecipated in the EU Commission Campaign on Gender Pay Gap involving also its member organization Working Mothers Italy
Strong Lobbying action through press conference, interviews and mailing to the Italian Meps for the voting of the Parental Leave at the EP in october
Appointment of the Italian representative at EWL Conference on Prostitution (3dt December 2010)
Organization of a meeting with member and non member organizations in order to decide the guide-lines of the implementation of EWL Campaign “ For a Europe free from Prostitution” (December 2010)
Organization of six Board meetings and the annual General Assembly during 2010
All EWL documents and newsflashes were distributed to members, to interested women's organizations and to institutions together with some translation of them .
Regular participation and support in women's rights campaign throughout the Country when required
Since 2010,The Italian Coordination has a facebook page and a fb group where relevant national and EU women's issues are published and is planning a future web site for bettering networking and information flow.
The relations with the Ministry for Equality were difficult, due to the fact that the Government in force do not recognize civil society. The Unit for Human Rights of the Ministry for Foreign Affairs continued inviting Lef-Italia for the consultation on the drafting of the Italian CEDAW Report.
Lef-Italia has started supporting and providing a student of the Faculty of Political Sciences in Turin to who has been assigned a Doctorate Thesis on EWL ,with documents, policy papers and interviews .
The partnership given to Formaper (Training Institute of the Chamber of Commerce of Milan) for the IBPP projects in Russia and Uzbekistan on marginalized women's capacity building gave Lef-Italia the opportunity to inform on EWL , the work done at national level by the Coordination and to exchange good practices increasing the networking at international level.
3. Please add hyperlinks to relevant campaigns, position papers, toolkits, publications of your organisation hereunder
Section 2: Quantitative information about events attended and organised
Please note that you can give us estimate figures, but we need to have a broad picture.
events | Unit | Planned | Actual |
Third-party initiatives: | |||
1. Number of participation of EWL board members as speakers/moderators to conferences and other similar events organised by third parties, of which | Total: 9 | 9 | 9 |
- EU level events | No. 4 | 4 | 4 |
- National events | No. 3 | ||
- Regional/local events | No. 2 | 2 | 2 |
2. Number of consultations organised by EU or national level decision-makers to which your organisation was invited to contribute and/or contributed, of which | No. 4 | 4 | 4 |
- EU level consultations | No. 2 | 2 | 2 |
- National level consultations | No. 2 | 2 | 2 |
3. Number of meetings between EWL Board members with EU institutions and national authorities and other stakeholders, of which | No. 4 | 4 | 4 |
- At EU level | No.2 | 2 | 2 |
- At national level | No.2 | 2 | 2 |
Internal and capacity building events organised by your organisation: | |||
Number of such events | No.2 | 2 | 2 |
Number of individuals who participated in these events, of which | No.60 | 60 | 60 |
- number of women | No.60 | 60 | 60 |
Size of events (sum of hours spent in such events by every participant) | Person/days | 7 | |
Awareness-raising and campaigning events organised by your organisation: | |||
Number of such events | No.2 | 2 | 2 |
Number of individuals who participated in these events, of which | No.100 | 100 | 100 |
- number of women | No.100 | 100 | 100 |
Size of events (sum of hours spent in such events by every participant) | Person/days | 12 | |
Please attach here a list of your member organisations.
ADEI-WIZO- Associazione Donne Ebree d'Italia
AIDDA- Associazione Imprenditrici e Dirigenti d'Azienda
AIDE -Associazione Indipendente Donne Europee
APID- Donne CONFAPI
BE FREE Cooperativa Sociale
BIC-Donna Pavia
CIF NAZIONALE- Centro Italiano Femminile
CONSIGLIO NAZIONALE DONNE ITALIANE (PLATFORM)
COLDIRETTI- Movimento Femminile
DIRE Donne in rete contro la violenza (PLATFORM)
DONNE IN RETE
DONNE IN ONDA
FIDAPA ( BPW Italy)
FORUM DONNE GIURISTE ITALIANE
PROXIMA GENERI
SONO DONNA E SCELGO DONNA
WORKING MOTHERS ITALY
YWCA-UCIGOS
Experts : Oria Gargano : EWL Observatory on Violence
Miryam Fuentes: European Migrant Network
[1] The EWL key areas of activities for 2010 included: European Gender Equality and Anti-Discrimination Policies and Legislation; Social Policy and Women’s Economic Independence; Women’s Health Issues, Women’s Rights in an International Context; Strengthening Roma Women’s inclusion in Europe. EWL ongoing policy work in 2010 concerned: Women and Migration, Integration and Asylum, Violence against Women, Women in Decision-Making.