CIDA Project: “Gender Mainstreaming in Social Policy and Programmes”, August 2004 – August 2005. The project is targeted as a support programme for the authorities in Bulgaria and Romania responsible for the design and implementation of social policy and programmes. It aims at improving the capacity among decision-makers at local level in relation to the implementation and monitoring of gender mainstreaming in various social sectors. Totally 80 representatives of partner organisations, including BARDA, are trained under the project. Training materials and manual are developed by the Romanian partner and adjusted in accordance with the Bulgarian legislation. The manual is published and disseminated among all partner structures. The leading partner, “Centre for Women’s Studies and Policies”, has already updated its web-site www.cwsp.bg with a new page, which plays the role of electronic resource centre on gender mainstreaming issues. The project is envisaged to finish with a National conference for exchange of best practices in gender mainstreaming in Bulgaria, as well as International Experts’ meeting for exchanging the experience acquired within the project by the partners and invited experts from South-East Europe (Romania, Serbia, Macedonia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Turkey) and the Netherlands.

More information could be found at: http:// www.cwsp.bg