Dzirnavu street 3A -22
Riga, LV-1010
Latvia
- Gender
Women's NGOs Cooperaiton Network is an umbrealla organistation. It is a national coordination of European Women's Lobby and member of Women against Violence Europe. Since 2017 the network is coordination ALF Latvia.
Work of NGO is volunteer based. Funds: EEA and Norway grants, ERASMUS+, Nordplus, Ministry of Culture, Ministry of Welfare, in-kind contributions by private sector and members of the network.
According to the Statutes the aim of NGO is to unite women’s organisations of Latvia in a common cooperation network to promote women’s rights and equality between men and women and ensure full access for all women to their human rights. Continue operation, activities of the informal original association of organisations of Women’s NGOs Cooperation Network of Latvia (National Coordination of European Women’s Lobby) that was established on 24 September, 2003 under the terms of a Protocol of Co-operation, and its tasks are Promote solidarity and confidence of the women of Latvia; Represent interests of the women in dialogue with national, European and international institutions; Perform effective lobbying for the promotion of the equality of gender, integration of its principles in all the spheres of the action policy, on the level of the adoption of the decision in Parliament (Saeima), government and local governments, quickly respond to the events in Latvia and issues and laws to be reviewed in the Cabinet of Ministers, Parliament (Saeima) and European Union; Develop capacity of NGO and promote institutional and capacity development of its member organisations etc.
Informal network exists from 2003 Gender equality award since 2006 Women’s NGOs forum organized annually Full member of European Women’s Lobby and only full member from Latvia from 2009 Member of Latvian Platform for Development Cooperation and Civic Alliance Mentoring project for young women in partnership with EU Representation in Latvia (European Successful women academy) Position papers and opinions from gender perspective and lobbying for gender equality at Parliament (Saeima) and municipality level in all sphere – health, economics, environment etc. Members of National Gender Equality Committee, Latvian Representatives at European Gender Equality Institute Expert Forum, EC Advisory Committee on Equal Opportunities between Men and Women, Gender Training Task Force at European Gender Equality Institute etc
By networking, sharing information in our network, contributing to monitoring of legal acts. Network is long term partner to Ministry of Foreign Affairs, have participated in the work of United Nations session on women's human rights (CEDAW, Women's Status Commitee) etc
Networking, information exchange, access to grants and partnerships.