Events
The gender perspective as an element in each of the municipal programs leads to responsible municipal policies
ZELS, in partnership with the OSCE Mission to Skopje and with the expert support of the UN Women office in Skopje, organized the second regional training for the representatives from the Vardar, East, Southeast and Northeast regions on the topic...
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Integration of the gender perspective in all local programs, as well as application of gender-responsive budgeting, is needed
Training on the topic “Integration of the gender perspective in local policies” was provided for representatives of the administration from the municipalities of the Skopje, Pelagonia, Polog and Southwest regions, who work on developing municipal programs and strategies. The training...
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With an advanced tool for gender-disaggregated statistics to an improved approach when planning needs from a gender aspect
The tool entitled “statistics, posted on the e-platform for gender-responsive budgeting of ZELS www.rob.zels.org.mk has been put into operation after its form has been advanced from a user (administrator) and visualization aspect. In order to explain in more detail the...
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“How to get gender-disaggregated data?” - training for municipal coordinators for equal opportunities between men and women
Statistics are a general good that serves everyone and anyone can use the obtained statistical data. On the other hand, the data represent an important basis for modern decision-making and management at all levels, serve to analyze the current situation...
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The role of ZELS in advancing gender equality in the municipalities presented to councillors from the Commissions for Equal Opportunities
From May 5-7, 2022, under the organization of the National Democratic Institute - NDI in Skopje, a training was organized for 70 councillors from the Commissions for Equal Opportunities from 20 municipalities on the topic: “Strengthening the Committees on Equal...
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The councillors from the Municipality of Probistip with great interest and foreknowledge for the advancement of gender equality in the local community
At the invitation of the Municipality of Probishtip, and in the framework of the Program for Equal Opportunities for Women and Men for 2022, representatives of ZELS held training for municipal councillors on the topic “Integrating the gender perspective in...
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By supporting women's entrepreneurship to better local economic development in the Municipality of Bar
From July 4 to 7, 2021 representatives of the ZELS Lobby group for gender equality composed of women mayors and women chairpersons of municipal councils took part in a regional visit to the Municipality of Bar, Montenegro to exchange good...
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Conference organized by ZELS - “Forum of Municipal Practices: Towards Gender-Responsive Municipalities”
“Forum of Municipal Practices: Towards Gender-Responsive Municipalities” was the topic of the conference held on June 25th, 2021, in Skopje, organized by ZELS. This event completed the two-year period of implementation of the activities of the project “Towards Gender-Responsive Municipalities:...
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Localization of the National Action Plan (NAP) for the implementation of UN Security Council Resolution 1325: Women, Peace and Security
"Localization of the National Action Plan (NAP) for the implementation of UN Security Council Resolution 1325: Women, Peace and Security” was the topic of the training organized by ZELS on 7th and 8th June 2021 for the representatives of the municipalities. The...
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Gender Equality and Gender Responsive Budgeting Platform
ZELS organized a one-day online training for secretaries, employees in the finance sector/department and PR councillors from all municipalities on the topic “Gender Concepts and Gender-Responsive Budgeting”, within the project “Towards Gender-Responsive Municipalities: Strengthening Municipal Capacities for Gender Policy and...
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Platform for gender responsive budgeting
Gender Equality and Gender Responsive Budgeting Platform
Program for equality of women and men in the Municipality of Bitola, Strategy for gender equality of the Municipality of Gjorce Petrov, Action plan for implementation of the strategy of the Municipality of Kocani, local good practices, contacts from the municipalities are some of the documents posted on the ZELS electronic platform for gender equality and gender-responsive budgeting. It is a central point of the municipalities for the exchange of information, knowledge and data for the needs of the municipalities, but also of other institutions whose focus is the equality of women and men at the local level.
The electronic platform for gender equality and gender-responsive budgeting, originally created as a tool for informing the municipalities about gender activities and gender-responsive budgeting, has been upgraded after 4 years with new forms that should enable municipalities to present gender-disaggregated data by categories related to their competencies.
The electronic platform was created as a result of the ZELS project “Strengthening the capacities of municipal officials and local representatives for gender-responsive budgeting”, implemented in the period 2013-2016 with the support of the UN Women Body in Skopje.
By continuing cooperation with them, ZELS through the project “Towards gender-responsive municipalities: strengthening municipal capacities for gender equality policies and gender-responsive budgeting” 2019-2021 advanced the electronic platform with new tools and techniques for displaying gender-disaggregated data by a municipality. It contains additional tools for the promotion of municipal activities for gender equality at a national and regional level, which would fulfil the purpose of turning it into a regional tool for informing and exchanging good practices of municipalities in the region that will collect and present regional experiences through links and articles.
Greater visibility and presentation of local initiatives and activities for gender equality and gender-responsive budgeting from one channel continues to be one of the goals of the platform. An interactive map of the municipalities where the gender profile of the municipalities is presented remains to be the main axis in the platform which contains important information about the municipality from a gender aspect.
The blog category is used for what local and national experts think about the progress in the implementation of gender policies and measures, and useful documents and literature, as well as video content, are located in the digital library category.