The seminar aims at exploring and debating the difficulties that young women can face when they want to be active in their community, but the space is very limited for them. The seminar provides the possibility to explore realities and good practices related to engagement of women in Italy and supports sharing and transferability of participants’ experiences and tools.
The concept of the seminar was born as a follow up of 2 previous activities: the seminar “Engagement of women in politics and entrepreneurship” held in Beirut by the Italian National Agency in cooperation with SALTO EuroMed Resource Centre and GIZ LEAD programme and the seminar on “Young Women Active in their communities” held in Tunisia in 2023 by the Italian National Agency.
After having explored the different countries realities of women in politics, entrepreneurship and local communities, and having experienced how important is the participatory dimension for both fields, the idea is to put in the centre the participation as one of the main starting points for a full involvement of the women in the society and for a real gender equality.
Specific Objectives:
The seminar will be open for 30 international participants, both women and men. The activity would be open to: Youth workers, trainers, youth leaders, social workers working on local level and in local governance who is active in the field of women empowerment in politics and civic participation; Women active in local governance and civic engagement.
The application deadline is 7 August 2024. Please apply through the Salto website.