Project “Technical assistance through training for increasing of the administrative capacity of national, regional, local authorities and court in the field of gender equality” MAT05/BG/9/3, financed by the Dutch government in the framework of the MATRA programme

1. One gender awareness raising workshop on: basic concepts - sex and gender, gender roles, gender stereotypes, gender mainstreaming, the national legislative framework, policy and institutional mechanisms on gender equality; the Bulgarian commitments to UN and EU legislation on equal treatment and equal opportunities for women and men. (For Press Officers of all ministries)
2. Two residential workshops on: gender mainstreaming methods/tools (gender analysis, gender impact assessment of policies and legislation, gender budgeting, integration of gender issues into monitoring and evaluation). In addition the training aimed to increase the input of the ministries in the implementation of the National Action Plan (NAP) on Gender Equality as well as to better coordinate, monitor and evaluate progress of the activities concerning the NAP of the inter-ministerial coordination mechanism. (For Experts of central executive administration )
3. Two residential workshops on: increasing the gender mainstreaming skills of the participants and how to use gender mainstreaming tools and methods for gender analysis, gender impact assessment and gender budgeting. The training helped them to improve their understanding of gender issues and the importance of integrating a gender approach/perspective in their daily work as well as on how better to identify gender based inequalities and discrepancies, examples of best practices from EU/Netherlands were presented as well as the legislative and policy on gender in the EU and in Bulgaria. (For Experts from the regional and local administration)
4. Two orientation seminars on: basic concepts regarding gender and gender equality issues in the juridical sector, gender-based discrimination, integration of a gender perspective into daily work of magistrates. In addition, the gender equality legislation and policies at EU level and the effect of this EU law on the work of the national courts was presented and discussed. (For Judges)
5. Two workshops focused on increasing the gender sensitivity of participants and their motivation to integrate gender perspective into their work and to monitoring the implementation of the national gender equity measures. (For Representatives of social partners and civil society (NGOs, trade union, employers' association, Economic and Social Council).

(CWSP website, http://www.cwsp.bg/en/htmls/page.php?category=547)