Transcript The IFUW Bina Roy Partners in Development Programme (BRPID

BRPID encourages international solidarity
and partnerships between IFUW
federations and associations.
Its primary goal is to support projects
empowering women and girls through
education and leadership development.
The programme is named
in honour of Dr. Bina Roy
(1914-1994), teacher and
educational advisor from
India, the first Asian
President of IFUW, who
believed in forging links
among IFUW affiliates to
encourage projects.
Her dream became reality in
1978 with the establishment of
this programme.
To date nearly 60% of IFUW's
national federations and
associations have participated.
BRPID currently supports projects
in 30 developing countries and
countries in transition.
Projects offer community services,
fellowships, organizational development
and capacity building, or other
innovative programmes for the
advancement of women and girls.
Projects are evaluated by the
IFUW Special Committee on
Project Development to ensure
viability, cost effectiveness,
suitability and development
potential.
Committee Members assist
national affiliates in preparing
project proposals and monitoring.
Community services
Guinea
El Salvador
Thailand
Turkey
Other Community Services
Projects
• Costa Rica – Dental health project at the
School of Carlos Monge Alfara
• Mexico – Shelters for victims of family
violence
Fellowships
Sierra Leone
Cameroon
Other Scholarship Projects
• Zimbabwe – National Scholarships Project
• Samoa – Education Scholarships Project
• Cameroon – (2007) Encouraging motivated
women and girls in higher education and sports
Capacity Building
Armenia
Lithuania
Skills training
Philippines
Nigeria
Uganda
Other Skills Training Projects
• Pakistan – Training in handicrafts, vocational
guidance lectures, and free medical camp
• Croatia – Croation war refugees handicrafts
stocks for landmine war victims
• Thailand – non-formal education for women’s
development in Thailand
• Georgia – Women for eco art – skills for women
with physical disabilities, refugee women and
unemployed women
Computer training
Egypt
Estonia
Other Computer Training Projects
• Argentina – Computer initiatives and
related abilities
• Egypt – 2007 – Training with the aim of
encouraging young people to choose the
path of free enterprise and start up small
businesses
Literacy
Turkey
Bangladesh
Other Advocacy Projects
Advocacy
- Kenya – Fight against Child Labour and Education
- Uganda – Popularisation and promotion of Science and
Mathematics Subjects for Primary and Secondary
School in Uganda
- India – Implementation of Right to Information Act for
women’s empowerment in India
- Russia – Organising RFUW National Project and
Branch Leadership Training around UNESCO Child
Friendly City theme
Other Education Projects
• Education
- Nepal - Library for women and girls
- Albania – Balkan’s women role, reality and perspective
- Bulgaria – Promoting gender equality in secondary and
higher education in Central and Eastern Europe
- Romania – Total moral quality for young women, girls,
parents and boys and communication development
in Europe
- Slovenia – Harmonisation of the family and women –
media campaigns
- Tonga – Inputting data on national survey on
community attitudes to women
Other Projects
• Estonia – 2007 – Recruiting new Estonian
Association of University Women
members 2007- 2010
• Philippines – 2007 – Computer literacy
programs, basic literacy, livelihood projects,
food feeding programs, medical and dental
mission and sports and physical
development program
• Sri Lanka – Survey of tsunami rehabilitation
project and career guidance and training for
women undergraduates at universities in Sri
Lanka
How can IFUW members in other
countries participate?
IFUW national affiliates, branches and
individual members throughout the world
can support the BRPID Programme by
making a donation.
We encourage every IFUW member
to support BRPID
For project descriptions and contribution forms see:
www.ifuw.org or contact IFUW at:
10 rue du Lac, 1207 Geneva, Switzerland
Tel :+41 22 7312380
Fax.+41 22 7380440
E-mail :[email protected]