France, 13th-18th December 2010

~ Mother Teresa ~

Life is an opportunity, benefit from it.

Life is beauty, admire it.

Life is bliss, taste it.

Life is a dream, realize it.

Life is a challenge, meet it.

Life is a duty, complete it.

Life is a game, play it.

Life is a promise, fulfill it.

Life is sorrow, overcome it.

Life is a song, sing it.

Life is a struggle, accept it.

Life is a tragedy, confront it.

Life is an adventure, dare it.

Life is luck, make it.

Life is too precious, do not destroy it.

Life is life, fight for it.

POWER and LIBERTY

+

CAPACITY and KNOWLEDGE

to decide and to take action

+

OPPORTUNITY to fulfill one’s aims

No one can make you

feel inferior

without your consent.

~ Eleonor Roosvelt~

Economic participation and opportunities:

1. which is the female involvement in the economic production ?2. How is considered the women contribution to the family income?3. Which are the real opportunities for women for combining their

private and professional lifes?

Considering thus:• The wage equality between men and women in similar works• Ratio of estimated female to male earned income• Female economic activity rate as percentage of male economic activity rate • Weeks of paid maternity leave allowed per country• Maternity leave benefits (percentage of wages paid in covered period)• Female professional and technical workers (as percentage of total)• Availability of government provided childcare• Impact of maternity laws on the hiring of women• Equality between women and men for private sector employment

~ Emily Dickinson~

We never know how high we

are

Till we are called to rise;

And then,

if we are true to plan,

Our statures touch the skies.

Political empowerment: 1. Which is the involvement and contribution of women in political

life?

2. Has a women the same opportunities for entering the decision amking world?

Reflecting on: Number of years of a female president or prime minister in the last 50 years Women in government at ministerial level (as percentage of total), Seats in parliament held by women (as percentage of total), Female legislators, senior officials and managers (as percentage of total)

~ Edith Wharton ~

There are two ways of

spreading light ...

To be the candle, or the mirror

that reflects it.

for I'm learning to sail my ship.

In and THROUGH education: Education is important for everyone, but it is especially significant

for girls and women. This is true not only because education is an entry point to other opportunities, but also because the educational achievements of women can have ripple effects within the family and across generations. Investing in girls' education is one of the most effective ways to reduce poverty

Considering thus: Average years of schooling, females as percentage of males, Adult literacy, female rate as percentage of male rate, Equal job opportunities for women and men with similar degrees

~ Luisa May Alcott~

I'm not afraid of storms,

for I'm learning

to sail my ship.

for I'm learning to sail my ship.

Health and well being: 1. Which are the substantial differences between women and men

in their access to sufficient nutrition, healthcare and reproductive facilities?

2. Which are the issues of fundamental safety and integrity of person?

Reflecting on: Adolescent fertility rate Maternal mortality ratio Infant mortality

~ Ella Fitzgerald~

Just don't give up trying to do

what you really want to do.

Where there is love and

inspiration,

I don't think you can go wrong.

Power Within: enabling women to articulate their own aspirations and strategies for change

Power To: enabling women to develop the necessary skills and access the necessary resources to achieve their aspirations

Power With: enabling women to examine and articulate their collective interests, to organize to achieve them and to link with other women’s and men’s organizations for change

Power Over: changing the underlying inequalities in power and resources that constrain women’s aspirations and their ability to achieve them.

Source: Mayoux, 2000

~ Anais Nin~

Life shrinks or expands

in proportion to one's

courage.

1. For letting participants deepening the topic and its corollaries

2. For deepening the analysis of the fields where empowering is needed in the Programme countries + the three regions (MEDA + SEE + EECA)

3. For getting a direct touch with the external environment, with strong connections with the thematic

4. For sharing experiences in the field

5. For facilitating the networking process among participants and promoting new common projects.

1. By giving the floor to a specialist speech by experts on the topic of empowering

2. By supporting participants in preparing in groups the analysis of empowering in political, economic lifes and in and through education and in the health and well-being sector

3. By meeting local organisations or authorities related to the field

4. Through an open space activity for sharing experiences

5. With group activity for future projects planning on networking

1. Youth workers, trainers belonging to organisations or bodies dealing with the thematic.

2. Coming from the Programme countries and the three regions (MEDA + SEE + EECA)

3. A gender balance would be REALLY appreciated (or at least a significant male participation)

It's man's man's man's worldThis is a man's world, this is a man's worldBut it wouldn't be nothing, nothing without a woman or a girl

You see, man made the cars, to take us over the roadMan made the train, to carry the heavy loadMan made the electric light, to take us out of the darkMan made the boat for the water, like Noah made the ark

This is a man's, man's, man's worldBut it wouldn't be nothing, nothing without a woman or a girl

Man thinks about a little baby girls and a baby boysMan makes then happy, 'cause man make them toysAnd after man make everything, everything he canYou know that man makes money, to buy from other man

This is a man's worldBut it wouldn't be nothing, nothing not one little thingWithout a woman or a girl

He's lost in the wildernessHe's lost in bitternessHe's lost, lost somewhere

James Brown 1966

•Mayoux, L. 2000. ‘Microfinance and the empowerment of women: A review of the key issues’. Social Finance Unit Working Paper, 23. Geneva: ILO

•Mainstreaming gender empowering Information, education and communication for Ethiopian youth and adolescents A concept and methodology paper

•Women’s Empowerment: Measuring the Global Gender Gap, World Economic Forum

•http://www.unfpa.org/gender/empowerment1.htm

•http://www.sapphyr.net/women/index.htm

•SEAL, soul, 2008