NETWORKING


Networking with government agencies and NGO’s in the following areas:

Gender policy

  • National Bureau Gender Policy ; collaboration on several issues;
  • Coordination of the National Cedaw report for the Ministry of Internal Affairs
  • Member of the Technical Advisory Board for the Unifem-Suriname programme
  • NVB participates in activities of CAFRA in Suriname

Networking in the field of Economic Empowerment of Women

  • The Ministry of Education, the Association of Surinamese Producers, the Association of Surinamese Constructors and the Ministry of Labour have appointed representations in the Advisory Board for the NVB project on Non- traditional Female Occupations
  • The Medical Mission and ProHealth have agreed to collaborate in a health programme to be implemented in the Upper-Suriname river area in 2000
  • The NVB has signed a contract with the IDB to play an intermediary role in a low-cost housing programme to be implemented from 2003 on
  • Through the programmes which are being implemented there is a close cooperation with several government and private institutions in the economic field.

Networking in the field of Institutional Strengthening of Women’s Groups

  • Pro Health assisted in the execution of a health programme in the Amer-indian village of Pikin Saron
  • The Foundation Suriname Red Cross assisted in the training of community women’s groups in first aid skills
  • networking with 14 women’s groups meeting every three months
  • the Peace Corps assists NVB in the institutional strengthening of the women’s group of Pikin
    Saron.
  • NVB was elected as a member for the Executive Committee for the Community Development
    Fund of Suriname, as part of the IDB-Surinamese government programmme from 2000 – 2002
  • The NVB assisted several women’s and community organizations in Paramaribo and districts and in abroad (island of Aruba) in organizing training programmes in home gardening.

Networking in the field of Women’s and Children’s Rights

  • Change of Inheritance Legislation and elimination of discrimination against children born out of wedlock : Ministry of Justice; National Assembly; several women’s organizations
  • Appointment of representatives of the Ministries of Justice and Police and Education, the University and the Foundation Stop Violence Against Women , in a Foundation for the Bureau for Women’s Rights, established by the NVB in 2002
  • Establishment of a group of ‘women friendly jurors’ by the NVB in order to support individual women in the search for their rights and to assist the NVB Bureau for Women’s Rights in developing and implementing a legal education programme for women and their families

Networking in other areas:

  • Represented in the National Anti-Drugs Board, headed by the Ministry of Health
  • Member of the National Steering Committee of the National UNDP-G.E.F/Small Grants Programme (environmental issues) - Chair since 2002
  • Has acted as a member of the Technical Advisory Board of the UNIFEM-Suriname Programme on Women and Sustainable Development in Suriname
  • Is part of a Civil Society Mechanism to advise on the IDB suriname Programme.