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FINAL AGENDA

INTERNATIONAL SEMINAR ON MAINSTREAMING GENDER IN THE NATIONAL ROMA STRATEGIES AND ACTION PLANS

24-25 November 2014

Venue: Hotel Rus Accord, 4 Spitalna Street

Kyiv, Ukraine

This seminar is co-organized by the Phenjalipe Informal Network of Romani Women, the Ukrainian Government and the Council of Europe, with the financial voluntary contribution of the Finnish Government The seminar aims to discuss the importance and practical ways towards mainstreaming gender into national strategies for Roma integration. More specifically, it will look into different strategies and processes of mainstreaming gender and will try to identify some of the most effective models for mainstreaming gender into existing national Roma integration strategies. In addition, the seminar intends to provide practical assistance to interested participants and Council of Europe member States to revise their existing Roma strategies from a gender mainstreaming perspective, and thus putting at their disposal an advisory expert group to be established in the context of this seminar. The report of the seminar will be shared with all the participants and it will be also presented during the 9th Plenary Meeting of the CoE Ad-Hoc Committee of Experts on Roma Issues (CAHROM) in spring 2015 by the Gender Equality Rapporteur, present at the seminar in Kyiv. The seminar is part of the implementation process of the Strategy for the Advancement of Romani Women and Girls, 2014-2010 that will be reviewed at the 5th International Conference of Romani women, organized by the Government of “the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia”, Phenjalipe and the Council of Europe, in September 2015, in Skopje.


Sunday, 23 November 2014

Arrival of participants at the Hotel Rus Accord, 4 Spitalna Street, Kyiv, Ukraine

Monday, 24 November 2014

08:30 – 09:00             Registration

09:00 – 09:40             Opening remarks

Chair:  Ms Natalia Fedorovych, Deputy Minister, Ministry of Social Policy, Ukraine

Mrs Svitlana Fomenko, Deputy Minister, Ministry of Culture, Ukraine

Mr Serhiy Kyslytsa, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ukraine

Mrs Nuzhat Ehsan, United Nations Population Fund Representative in Ukraine

Ms Arja Makkonen, Finnish Ambassador to Ukraine

Ms Olena Lytvynenko, Deputy Head, Council of Europe Office in Ukraine

Mr Sixto Molina, Head of the Support Team of the Special Representative of the Secretary General of for Roma Issues, Council of Europe

09:40 – 11.00             Introduction to gender equality and mainstreaming

The session will introduce the importance of gender mainstreaming, particularly of mainstreaming gender into national Roma policies. In addition, it will take stock of efforts and initiatives at European level to support the advancement of Romani women and girls both in policy and practice.

Ms Mirjam Karoly, OSCE/ODIHR’s Senior Adviser on Roma and Sinti and Chief Contact Point for Roma and Sinti Issues (CPRSI): OSCE commitments and efforts to gender mainstream Roma women’s issues with a particular focus on ODIHR CPRSI findings of the assessment of the situation of Roma in Ukraine and impact of the current crises

Ms Ana Urrutia Enciso, Project Manager, Equality Division, Council of Europe Office in Ukraine: Council of Europe Convention on preventing and combating violenceagainst women and domestic violence

Ms Isabela Mihalache, I-CARE, Support Team of the Special Representative of the Secretary General of for Roma Issues, Council of Europe: Gender aspects in the national Roma strategies and action plans

Ms Zemfira Kondur, Informal Network of Romani Women “Phenjalipe” and Council of Europe ROMED National Focal Point in Ukraine: Strategy on the Advancement of Romani Women and Girls, 2014-2020 and ROMED programme developments on gender mainstreaming in Ukraine

Ms Mabera Kamberi, Head of the Sector for Coordination and Technical Assistance, Ministry of Labour and social policy, “The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia”: Brief introduction of the 5th International Conference of Roma women in Skopje, September 2015

Discussion

11:00 – 11:30                         Coffee break

11:30 – 12:30              Country based policy actions examples in the introduction of gender in national Roma policies and strategies

This session intends to provide an insight into country-based examples of attempting to mainstream gender into national policies, including into Roma policies. This will allow participants to understand the challenges and policy choices in mainstreaming gender by governments that they can further use in the workshop discussions.

Chair: Ms Nesime Salioska, Phenjalipe Member and Executive Director of the
S.O.S Roma NGO, “the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia” 

Ms Elena Grozdanova, State Counselor for Equal Opportunities, Ministry of Labour and social policy, “The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia”: Gender mainstreaming in policy formulation: the Law on Equal Opportunities for Women and Men and the National Action Plan for Gender Equality

and Ms Mabera Kamberi, Head of the Sector for Coordination and Technical Assistance, Ministry of Labour and social policy, “The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia”: Integration of gender in the Roma National Strategy

Ms Larysa Kobelyanska, Adviser of the Minister of Social Policy, Ukraine: Gender mainstreaming in work with the Roma community. Implementation of the Law of Equal Rights and Opportunities for Women and Men

Discussion

12:30 – 14:00              Lunch break at the Hotel

14:00 – 16:00                          PARALLEL WORKSHOPS

Workshop 1:        Methods and tools for gender mainstreaming

The workshop intends to discuss the broad range of tools needed for the development of policies as well as those used in the policy process itself. Thus, it will discuss about tools for policy development, implementation, monitoring, impact assessment, gender budgeting, etc. It will look at the need for statistics disaggregated both by gender and ethnicity and research, and research tools, awareness raising, capacity building and training, seminars, conferences, network building, website, databases, policy and legislative analysis, human and other resource analysis etc.

Facilitator: Ms Isabela Mihalache, I-CARE, Support Team of the Special Representative of the Secretary General of for Roma Issues, Council of Europe

Introducer: Ms Isabel Romao, Independent Gender Expert, Portugal

Rapporteur: Ms Maja Bova, National Office against Racial Discrimination (UNAR), Italy

14:00 – 16:00                         PARALLEL WORKSHOPS

Workshop 2         Methods and tools for gender mainstreaming

The session will look at the processes employed in developing national strategies for Roma from a gender perspective. It will discuss the gender tools used and mechanisms involved in introducing a gender perspective in Roma strategies at national level. It will draw conclusions on the shortcomings of current Roma strategies and action plans in mainstreaming gender effectively and propose practical suggestions for the revision of the Roma strategies accordingly.

Facilitator: Ms Mirjam Karoly, OSCE/ODIHR’s Senior Adviser on Roma and Sinti and Chief Contact Point for Roma and Sinti Issues (CPRSI)

Introducer: Ms Mirjana Maksimović, Deputy Team Manager, Social Policy and Roma Inclusion, Social Inclusion and Poverty Reduction Unit, Serbia:  Gender mainstreaming in the Roma Strategy in Serbia

Rapporteur: to be identified at the seminar

16:00- 16:30   Coffee break

16:30 – 17:30                         PLENARY SESSION reporting

Chair: Ms Zola Kondur, “Phenjalipe” Informal Network of Romani Women and Council of Europe ROMED National Focal Point in Ukraine

Presentation of the workshops’ reports by the Rapporteurs of the two workshops

Discussion and preliminary conclusions

17:30               End of the first day

19:00               Evening programme, Restaurant “Centrum”, str. Shota Rustaveli 16-a

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Tuesday, 25 November 2014

09:00 – 11:00                          PARALLEL WORKSHOPS

Workshop 1:        How to developan effective gender mainstreaming approach to the Roma national strategies and action plans

This session will develop on the discussions and conclusions of the previous day. After having discussed a) what is gender mainstreaming both as a process and strategy/action b)  what are the general tools for gender mainstreaming as well as what tools have been used so far at national level in mainstreaming gender in Roma strategies, the session will aim on the one hand to design a model action plan/strategy for effectively mainstreaming gender in the present Roma strategies while on the other hand will discuss how  to create the political/technical process needed for mainstreaming gender in Roma strategies in practice. This may include the creation of a working group on gender mainstreaming, which can act as an informal advisory mechanism to the national governments.

Facilitator:  Ms Lucie Fremlova, Independent consultant on equality and PhD student, University of Brighton

Introducer: Vera Kurtic, Executive Coordinator, Women’s Space association, Nis, Serbia

Rapporteur: to be identified at the seminar

09:00 – 11:00                         PARALLEL WORKSHOPS

Workshop 2:        How to support the development and implementation of programmes on Romani women and girls’ education, employment, health, social protection, housing, violence against women  etc.

This session will discuss ways to support the implementation of programmes and projects and national and local level benefiting Romani women and girls in various areas of their lives. It aims to create impact beyond the action plans and strategies for Roma.

Facilitator: Ms Larysa Kobelyanska, Adviser of the Minister of Social Policy, Ukraine

Introducer: Ms Ljiljana Šantić, Expert Advisor for Roma Issues, Ministry for Human Rights and Refugees of Bosnia and Herzegovina

Rapporteur: to be identified at the seminar

11:00 – 11:30             Coffee break

11:30 – 12:30                          Plenary Session

Chair:  Ms Mabera Kamberi, Head of the Sector for Coordination and Technical Assistance, Ministry of Labour and social policy, “The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia”

Presentation of the workshop reports by the Rapporteurs

Discussion

Conclusions and the way forward

12:30 - 13:00                          Closing remarks

Ms Larysa Kobelyanska, Adviser of the Minister of Social Policy, Ukraine

Ms Isabela Mihalache, Support Team of the Special Representative of the Secretary General of for Roma Issues, Council of Europe

13:00                          Departure of participants