Meeting on "Drafts of specifications of services and minimum standards for the first group of priority of social protection" was organized within the project Support for the implementation of the Strategy for Social Protection to support the Ministry of Labour and Social Policy on defining and developing structural and functional service standards in the field of social protection.

During the meeting of the representatives of the Ministry of Education, the Deputy Prime Minister Team for implementation of the Strategy for Poverty Reduction and Civil Society Contact, held on 20th of February, the proposals for the improvement of gender policy in education were presented.

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Autonomous Women's Center and Women's Research Center from Nis sent their suggestions and recommendations for improving the existing system of legal protection from domestic violence with brief explanations. The proposal is based on the technical discussions held in the framework of project activities of the Autonomous Women's Center, as well as from the research of criminal practices, conducted in cooperation with the Women's Research Centre from Niš.

Proposals for the introduction of the policy of gender equality in the Revised plan for the implementation of the priorities of the European Partnership and Multi-annual Indicative Planning Document (MIPD) 2007-2009 for Serbia.

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Theses prepared for the fifth meeting of the Sinergijska Group on Gender Equality in the Canadian Embassy in the CIDE organization.

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Proposal for the agenda of the National Assembly Forum for poverty reduction, to add the topics from the Strategy which are covered by the Human rights, gender equality and especially vulnerable groups paragraph.

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Women's organizations and groups, signatories of this document, at the invitation of UNDP participated in the consultation process on the priority activities in the field of gender equality in Serbia for the period up to 2008. This document contains the views of the current situation and perspectives / priorities for action and influence of women's organizations and groups, perspective on the mandates and responsibilities that should have mechanisms for gender equality, as well as the proposal of the necessary preconditions for establishment of cooperation between representatives of different sectors.

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Social welfare services in the local community and their future - lessons learned, recommendations and sustainability factors.

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In the following paragraphs we summarize some of the key policy actions of the Program of development of good practices in the field of domestic violence in 2006. Although these are volunteer activities, policy analysis, carefully monitoring of the process and advocacy of adoption and / or amendment of laws, government policies and procedures, we find them particularly important.

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Contribution to the Round Table of the National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia: Review of the Draft Law on Associations.

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Tanja Ignjatović and Bobana Macanović

Within the framework of the Program of development of good practices in the field of domestic violence, in addition to regular project activities, we are actively involved in the process of commenting and influencing on practical policy, especially in the field of social protection and other areas that have connections with domestic violence, violence against women and gender issues.

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