2002
Project: "Bulgaria: Gender Aspects of Poverty and Inequality in the Family
and the Labour Market (Research and Policy Recommendations)"
This research project was ordered and sponsored by the World Bank and implemented by three organizations - Agency of Social
Analyses (ASA), WAD and Gender Project for Bulgaria Foundation Its goal was to analyze gender aspects of poverty and inequality
in the family and labour market in Bulgaria and to contribute to the preparation of a Gender Agenda for Action.
WAD part of the research included Mapping NGOs dealing with gender issues. Out of the overall number of 457 questionnaires distributed by mail and by hand WAD and GPF collected 103 filled sheets. All these have been coded and entered into a general data base.
Recommendations to the World Bank: Enhance the contribution of NGOs to gender equality in Bulgaria
- Existing umbrella and resource organizations should be urged to acknowledge the value of gender-equality work, already done by their affiliates and to promote such work.
- Funding should be made available for support networks (local and national) as a potentially efficient infrastructure to benefit local service providers, working on a broad variety of development needs of constituencies.
- Reforms in the social sector should encourage the government to create the necessary legal and financial conditions, including additional tax relief, for contracting services out to NGOs.
- Self-help groups need to be encouraged, keeping in mind the great number and diversity of vulnerable groups, as well as their low organizational capacity.
- Advocacy groups: investments for capacity building (training, coalition building, media work, PR skills, participatory research methods etc.)
- Strengthen the capacity to implement the gender component of the National Strategy for the integration of ethnic minorities
- Investments in building the gender competency of governmental agencies and administration, including the collection if gender segregated statistics and the establishment of practical tools for gender mainstreaming in various fields.
Donor: Agency for Social Analyses (ASA)
