Call for Applications: AWID Young Women’s Dialogue in Tbilisi, Georgia this October

Nadine Moawad alerted us to a call for applications from the Young Feminist Wire that our readers would be interested in:

AWID Young Women’s Dialogue on Resource Mobilization and Movement Building in the SEE/CEE/CIS Region on October 19^th – 20^th 2010 in Tbilisi, Georgia.

On October 19 and 20, 2010, AWID is convening a regional meeting for young women from the SEE/CEE/CIS region on the topic of resource mobilization and movement building for women’s rights organizations. The purpose of the dialogue is to provide participants with the opportunity to:

• Explore key challenges in relation to movement building faced by young women in the region;
• Consider the resource needs of young women working for women’s rights in the region, how these needs are currently being met, and how to fill any gaps;
• Gain new knowledge about resource mobilization;
• Build networks with young women’s rights activists; &
• Work collaboratively to design strategies for supporting regional young feminist activism.

Participant Criteria:

• Young women active on gender equality whether as organizational staff or volunteers or as independent activists in one or more of the following countries:

Armenia Azerbaijan Belarus Georgia Kazakhstan Kyrgyzstan Moldova Russia Tajikistan Turkmenistan Ukraine Uzbekistan Czech Republic Estonia Hungary Latvia Lithuania Poland Romania Slovakia Albania Bosnia and Herzegovina Bulgaria Croatia Kosovo Macedonia Montenegro Serbia Slovenia

• Applicants must be between 18 and 30 years old in October
• They must be available to arrive in Tbilisi, Georgia on October 18^th and leave on October 21^st

Please fill in the application at the Young Feminist Wire’s website here  before August 14, 2010. You will be notified of your acceptance by August 20^th. If you have trouble with the form or need to fill it out in Russian, please email gmalek@awid.org

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