The purposes of the project "Understanding for Democracy" are:

• Strengthening of international ties and enlargement of experience of Kharkiv Women's Club "MIROSLAVA" in Ukraine through proposed international conference in the fall of 1998 (organised by Club " MIROSLAVA"). Developing partnership contacts for creation of international joint programs.
• Uniting understanding of women for the future. Our goal is to learn about the opinions of women in other countries with regards to women's roles in society, in civil activities and other issues of interest to women including economics, politics, environment, culture and relationships with family, children and society. We want to learn from other women and teach as well about various methods of improving the status of women in society.
• Publication of conference journal which will include articles written in Ukrainian and English on current women's issues, conference topics and special interest pieces by and for women of all nationalities. We also plan to provide diverse information about Ukraine, Kharkiv, Club 'Miroslava'.

The three day conference will include: presentations and reports from various women's and civil society and political organisations, round table discussions, leadership trainings and health trainings, press-conference for mass-media, cultural programs and exhibitions and a special activity for all conference attendees to participate in creating a joint batik-mural for possible exhibition at a future conference.

So far, we have planned seven workshop sessions:

1. Economic and Political Issues 2. Violence and Health 3. Working Together with Other Organisations 4. Working Experiences of NGO's for Women	5. Cultural and Spiritual Issues 6. Ecology 7. Management of NGO's

Proposed Daily Agenda:

9:00 Registration, contacts 10:00 Report Presentations 11:30 Coffee Break 11:50 Report Presentations (continued) 2:00 Lunch	3:00 Round Tables, Group Work, Trainings 4:30 Coffee Break 4:50 Round Table and Group Work Presentations 6:00 End of Conference Day

Optional cultural programs planned for free time in the evenings. On the final day of the conference, we will discuss together our findings from all of the meetings and work at the conference. At this time, we will work together to create a batik mural that will demonstrate, without the barrier of different languages, our joint results and understanding of each other through our conference experiences. We plan to photograph our drawing in order to publish it in a future issue of our journal.

The conference will span three working days October 9, 10, 11 of 1998. Planned participants - 80 (approximately 40 from Kharkiv and Ukraine and 40 from other countries). Information about the conference will be distributed through a magazine 'Women and Earth' and sister-organisations.

Application deadline for conference participants: September 1,1998.

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