Women's Leadership Program for Democratic Social Change in Southeastern Europe

STAR Women's Leadership Program Project Brief (36kb)

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In September 1999, World Learning's STAR Network began implementing the Women's Leadership Program for Democratic Social Change in the Post-Yugoslav Region. In October 2000, this initiative received an additional two-year funding to implement regional and country-specific activities, with additional funding for Bosnia-Herzegovina granted in 2001. The STAR Network is designed to support women's political leadership and economic empowerment in Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia, Macedonia, Kosovo, Serbia, and Montenegro. It builds on the reputation and successful accomplishments of the STAR Network, an informal association of women's NGOs operating in the Post-Yugoslav Region that grew out of an earlier USAID and privately-funded project. Since its founding in 1994, the STAR Network has provided encouragement, technical assistance and training that largely utilizes regional expertise, as well as financial support to more than 150 women's NGOs that support multi-ethnic values working for democratic social change.

The STAR Network program places particular emphasis on regional strategies and solutions for advancing women's economic and political leadership through workshops, forums, selected exchanges, and joint campaigns. The program's goals are to foster and ensure the role of women as effective policy advocates, decision makers, and public officials who will work collaboratively across ethnic and political borders towards peacebuilding in the Post-Yugoslav Region. The privately-funded STAR Women's Fund will continue to provide organizational support funds to locally-led organizations in countries that are not supported with USAID funding such as Macedonia and Montenegro.

STAR is about change (social, political, and economic), empowerment, and women. With offices in Zagreb, Croatia; Skopje, Macedonia; Prishtina, Kosovo; Belgrade, Serbia; and Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina, the STAR Network program is guided by a regional advisory board made up of women from the six locales representing the NGO, business, and public sectors. STAR will continue to work closely with other U.S. bilateral programs, multilateral agencies such as the World Bank, international organizations, PVOs, foundations, and private donors in ensuring the full participation of women in reconstruction and peace-building in the Post-Yugoslav Region.

Partners: USAID, Private donors, Local NGOs

Project: Cooperative Agreement, 1999-2000, 2000-2002, Post-Yugoslav Region

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