Women and Youth in focus of the cooperation with HAndels,Sweden

The Training Program for two years designed and structured

In the period from 07 to 10 June a two member's delegation of Handels,Sweden from the region Sundswall visited Sarajevo.The puprose of this visit was to meet with the representatives of the FIET Project for BIH and together with them as well as with the representatives of Youth and Women's Section of BIH to design and structure the planned training project for women and youth.

This Project has aim to strainghten and improve the skills of the target group of 30 participanst coming from the women's section and youth section of the commerce trade unions of FBIH and RS and to develop their capabilities of aplying their knowledge and skills in their respective comunities.

Besides disccussing the project itself, our friends from Handels had a chance to meet with representatives of the two sections of CTUBIH in Zenica as well as to get familiar with the general women's work in the trade union movement in BIH by meeting the representative of ICTU office for SEE.

The project has been sent by our colleagues in Sweden to Olaf Palme Foundation for the aproval and hopefully very soon will be ready for the implemenation.

We hope this is not just beginning of the new very interesting and usefull project for CTUBIH but moreover the beginning of the new and ever lasting friendship. 

Detaild project desrciption as well as plan can be found in the attachment of the Bosnian version.

FIET PROJECT OFFICE
SARAJEVO

Planning Training Program
for Women’s Section of STBIH
Streinghtening the skills and knowledge of Women Representatives in STBIH

1.Basic for the training

• to continue strainghtening the present very well developed women’s network in STBiH
• to support the STBiH in representing its activities in the localities and promoting rights and interest of its members with the special focus on women and youth
• to support the organizing in Goražde region and by this also  the development of the unions structures in that region

2.Traget groups

The main target group:

• Women’s Section of STBIH – a group of very active women, 30 participants.

Other target groups:

• women’s representatives gathered in Women’s Network of BIH
• representatives of Youth section of commerce unions in BIH

3.Planning actions

• five seminars during 2008-2010, 2-3 days each
• concrete projects followed by the seminars (participants divided in to 6 groups with 5 in each)
• see the matrix for details

4.Planning implementation

• Seminar organized in cooperation with Project partners from Sweden + local experts(lectures) and FIET Project coordinators.
• Projects to be implemented in between the seminars by the group members in cooperation with the Project staff
• General project task is relation to the issues discussed on the seminar will be implemented by different concrete actions defined after the seminar on the group meetings.

IMPLEMENTATION PLAN

Summer 2007  Planning Seminar
8-9 June   Planning of the training
   
    Objectives:
• to make a detailed plan for the program

Content:
• orientation to Training
• Issues and topics development
• division into projects

Responsible persons:
• Handels’ representatives
• FIET Project representative
Spring 2008  Seminar 1
   
   Objectives:
• to evaluate present level of women’s activities in STBIH
• to develop tools to distribute information in the localities

Content:
• Information and communication
• Strategy of communication
• Starting point for the Group work
Summer 2008  Project number 1

• developing the system of information on the working place level
• Producing the information material and its distribution in the locality
Autumn 2008   Seminar 2
   Objectives:
• to develop the system of campaigning in the union movement
• to develop the tools for effective campaignes
• Starting point for the group work

                                     Content
• report on project results (Group presentations)
• tools for effectives campaignes
• campaignes in BiH society

Spring 2009   Project number 2

• Planning and implementing a small scale union campaigne in the locality
End of summer 2009    Seminar 3

    Objectives:

• to develop the system of effective local training
• to develop tools for effective training

Content:

• report on project results (Group presentations)
• tools for effective training
• participatory methods
Autumn 2009  Project number 3

• Planning and implementation of the training course in one working place
Spring 20010  Final Evaluation Seminar

   Objectives:
• to evaluate the Training Program and its impact for STBIH
• to evaluate the impact of the Program for the union status in Goražde region
• to plan future cooperation

Content:
• report on the project results (Group reports)
• evaluation