08:30 – 09:00          Registration

09:00 – 10:00          Official opening  

• Ms. Tatyana Kmetova, Executive Director, CWSP and Project Manager
• Mr. Paul Roche, Political Counsellor and Coordinator of the Technical Cooperation Section of the Canadian Embassy, Bucharest and Sofia 
• Ms Ligia Marincus, Program Officer of the Canadian International Development Agency
• Mr Konstantin Trenchev, President of the Confederation of Labour “Podrepa”
• Ms Lilia Abadjieva, Head of Equal Opportunities for Women and Men, Ministry of Labour and Social Policy
• Ms Lalko Dulevski, Chairman of the Economic and Social Council
• Ms Margarita Petkova, Mayor of Ihtiman Municipality
• Mr Alexsander Tonkov, Executive Director of the Regional Development Agency, Plovdiv
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10:00 – 10:30          Panel 1 Project: Gender Mainstreaming in public policies and programs

• Project and partners – Magdanela Delinesheva, CWSP: Project_Delinesheva_en.pdf (364.51 Kb)
• Results of the sociological survey - Matilda Aleandrova:
• Results of the implemented trainings – Pobeda Loukanova

10:30 – 11:00          Coffee break

11:00 – 12:30          Panel 2 Gender Mainstreaming

• Gender Mainstreaming in EU member states (practice and achievements) – Tatyana Kmetova, CWSP
•  Applying the methods of gender mainstreaming in Bulgaria in different organizations and structures: Tsvetanka Piskova – Confederation of Labour “Podkrepa”, Kazanluk; Rumen Genov – Regional Development Agency, Kardjali; Vesela Dimitrova – Confederation of Labour “Podkrepa”

12:30 – 13:30           Lunch

13:30 – 15:00           Panel 3 Presentations on good practices and experience from other countries

• Cristina Vaileanu –  Partnership for Equality Center, Romania: PEC_Vaileanu_en..pdf (534.28 Kb)
• Claudio Luongo, D&S Group, Italy: D_S_Luongo_en.pdf (393.88 Kb)
• Ans Oudejans and Marion Meesters – BMO, the Neatherlands: BMO_Meesters_en.pdf (44.36 Kb)

15:00 – 15:30          Coffee break

15:30 – 16:30          Panel 4 Suggestions from the partners for implementing the policy of Gender Mainstreaming in Bulgaria

• Maria Dimitrova – Confederation of Labour “Podkrepa”
• Dimitrina Todorova – Bulgarian Association of Regional Development Agencies
• Sebihan Mehmet – Mayor of Krumovgrad Municipality
• Discussion on the presentations

16:30 – 17:00         Closing of the conference

 

                                                  

 

 

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