Протягом 8-14 квітня 2022 року, за сприяння НУО «Центр – Розвиток демократії» та ГО «ФемінізмУА» (м. Луцьк), серед українських громадських жіночих організацій та медичних установ була поширена перша партія гуманітарної допомоги від литовської організації Asociacija Lygiai (Association “Equally”).
Товари першої необхідності – жіночої гігієни, препарати жіночої безпеки, тести на вагітність – поширювались серед вразливих груп жінок та дівчат, а також постраждалих від російської агресії внутрішньо переміщених осіб.
Товари критичної необхідності на випадки сексуального насильства і важких побутових умов отримали громадські організації у Харкові, Києві, Кропивницькому, Івано-Франківську, Тернополі, Львові, Чернігівській області, Чернівцях та Чернівецькій області. Також відповідну допомогу передали пацієнткам медичних закладів Волині.
Допомогу в поширенні товарів серед тих, хто їх потребує, надали:
ГО “Редут” ГО “Громадська варта”(м. Кропивницький)
ГО ХЖО Сфера (м. Харків)
Волинський обласний перинатальний центр
Волинська обласна психіатрична лікарня
Луцький клінічний пологовий будинок
Міська лікарня м. Прилуки (Чернігівська область)
Пологовий будинок № 4 м. Київ
Швидка допомога м. Остер
Київський центр протидії та запобігання насильству
ГО Жіночі перспективи (м. Львів)
Центр нефрології “Даруємо життя” (м. Харків)
Регіональні представництва БО Всеукраїнська Ліга Легалайф
Уряд Канади підтримав проект НУО Центр – Розвиток демократії для покращення побутових умов проживання постраждалих від вторгнення Росії українців – внутрішньо переміщених осіб.
Проєкт передбачав підтримку тих, хто переїхав до Вижницької громади та місто Чернівці Чернівецької області, до Гайворонівської та Заваллівської громади Кіровоградської області, до Бісковицької громади та місто Львів Львівської області, до міста Чортків Тернопільської області, на Волинь до міста Луцька та Любомльської громади.
Завдяки фінансуванню уряду Канади українські діти та підлітки продовжують навчання, так як їм придбали комп’ютери, планшети та ноутбуки. Також діти мають можливість відвідувати заняття арт-терапії.
Для забезпечення достойних побутових умов дорослі отримали техніку, завдяки якій ці люди можуть мати гарячу воду, прати, готувати.
A democratic, just, prosperous, peaceful Ukraine, in which women and men can fully enjoy their human rights and develop their potential.
What are our objectives?
Women participate in decision-making at all levels
Women participate in conflict prevention and resolution and in post-conflict rebuilding
Women’s needs and interests are included and taken into account in the legislation, national and local strategies, programs, action plans, services
Decision-makers at all levels understand what women’s rights are and how they have to be considered and protected
Women’s and youth CSOs have the knowledge, the tools, and expertise to protect women’s rights in different areas
What we do to achieve these objectives?
Promote equal rights and opportunities for women and men
Educate people about different tools used to provide equal rights and opportunities for women and men in various areas
Educate women in different vulnerable groups about feminism, peacebuilding, and media literacy
Educate people at all levels of decision-making – from the Parliament to local communities and women’s CSOs and initiatives – about the crucial role of women’s rights and women’s participation
Work with various groups – like local officials, heads of hromadas, public servants, journalists, specialists in different industries to help them implement the measures to account for women’s needs and interests in their areas
Advocate for women’s participation in decision-making and peacebuilding – including women that face numerous forms of discrimination
Work to free women and girls from various forms of violence, including prostitution, pornography, and surrogacy
Educate people about women’s contributions to different spheres of the economy and society
Help women get proper recognition for their work and achievements in all spheres of the economy and society
When was DDC established?
In 2003
Our activities
Overall, we work in advocacy, policy development, and conducting trainings on the following topics (for different audiences, from local initiative groups to Ministries):
“Debate”, “Domestic Violence Prevention”, “Human Trafficking Prevention”, “Conflict Resolution”, “Leadership and Human Rights”, ‘Women’s Rights’, ‘Gender Equality’, ‘Gender-sensitive services’, ‘Gender-sensitive policies’, ‘Women, Peace, Security’, ‘Youth, Peace, Security’, ‘Advocacy for Women’s Rights’, ‘Feminism’, ‘Local women’s initiatives’, ‘Peacebuilding and women’s involvement in it’, ‘Men’s involvement in promoting Women’s rights’.
Since 2003, our organization has been working on combating trafficking in human beings and violence against women, and following this work, we started fighting against sexual exploitation of women and girls in prostitution and pornography.
Since 2018, we have been working on promoting the Equality Model of state treatment of prostitution (exit programs for women in prostitution, punishment for pimps and punters).
Since 2020, we have been educating people about dangers of surrogacy as a form of reproductive exploitation of women.
Since 2014,
Soon after the beginning of Russia’s war against Ukraine in 2014, we began working on promoting UNSCR 1325 and the Women, Peace, Security agenda and participated in development of the first and the second National Action Plan 1325 as well as of updates of both NAPs and helped train oblast and local level officials and CSOs on localization of the Women, Peace, Security agenda. Within this area, we are also promoting the Youth, Peace, Security agenda and working with young women peacebuilders
https://www.facebook.com/groups/YWLPU/
Since the beginning the full-scale invasion on February 24, 2022, we expanded our awareness-raising and training work and joined the humanitarian effort on the ground. We started to help create shelters for IDPs, improve living conditions for IDPs to live in, resettled them in private residences, organized the life and education of IDP children, created and conducted psychological counselling, consultations and classes for children and women.
We have been helping organize cooperation between local authorities, hosting communities and internally displaced persons and engaged both foreign donor organizations and private persons donating money to resolve the most pressing issues.
How big is our team?
7 persons of the core staff
Ella Lamakh, head of board <ellalamakh@gmail.com>
Maria Dmytriyeva, director of programs <mdmytrieva@ddc.org.ua>
Currently, our key international partner is Global Network of Women Peacebuilders (GNWP), with whom we have been cooperating since 2017, specifically on WPS and YPS agenda in Ukraine.
DDC’s experts have been conducting trainings for UN Women Ukraine, and a range of the institutions in the Ukrainian defense sector.
The French feminist NGO ‘Women In War’ based in Paris is another one. Together with them, we organized an international scientific conference ‘Women in Wars, Revolutions, and Peacebuilding’ in 2016.
Funds received by NGO «Development of Democracy Center»
Project number / name of the project
Аmount
2022
Compassion Is Life
Support for children in Donetska, Kirovohradska, Lvivska and Chernivetska oblasts
5 850 USD
Isabel Allende Foundation
Support for families in difficult life circumstances due to the war in Donetska, Mykolayivska and Lvivska oblasts
7 500 USD
RAZOM
Support to Ukrainian people who suffered from the full-scale invasion of the army of the Russian Federation into Ukraine
16 700 USD
GNWP
Support to Women Victims and Survivors of Sexual Violence and other War Crimes
35510 USD
CARE
Assistance during the war to IDPs and their host families
22 280 EURO
Ukrainian Women’s Fund
Needs of women and children during the war
23 600 UAH
Lauren Schmidt (personal and friends’ donations)
Assistance to families affected by the war
12 147,21 USD
Mary Jain Marcus (personal donations)
Assistance to families affected by the war
10 000 USD
CFLI Canada Embassy in Ukraine
Assistance during the war to IDPs and their host families
1 133 180 UAH
2021
CFLI
“WPS / SDG / CEDAW Synergy in Local Strategies and Action Plans as Tool for Sustaining Peace”
89 170.75 CAD
Global Network of Women Peacebuilders (GNWP)
“Women and youth defend human rights and build peaceful and resilient communities – Strengthening the synergies between Women and Peace and Security, Youth and Peace and Security, gender-sensitive crisis response, and the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW)”
27 075 USD
2020
UNDP
“Civil Society for Enhanced Democracy and Human Rights in Ukraine”
3 321 USD
2019
Global Network of Women Peacebuilders (GNWP)
Local communities build and sustain peace: strengthening women and youth participation in building sustainable peace in Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Kenya, Moldova, South Sudan, Uganda, and Ukraine
69 658 USD
PACT
Women of Ukraine: Heard, Capable, Resilient
74 121 USD
Global Network of Women Peacebuilders (GNWP)
Synergies between the Security Council Resolutions on Women, Peace and Security and CEDAW
10 530 USD
Global Network of Women Peacebuilders (GNWP)
Amplifying women’s voices, enhancing local and national partnerships: Strengthening the implementation of WPS resolutions in Colombia, DRC, Iraq, Nigeria and Ukraine
31 771 USD
Global Network of Women Peacebuilders (GNWP)
Sustaining Peace Consultation Workshop on February 20th, 2019 in Kyiv, Ukraine.
4 850 USD
2018
Global Network of Women Peacebuilders (GNWP)
Study on civil society perceptions of Sustaining Peace
4 500 USD
2017
UNDP
Strengthening the Role of Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) in Promoting Democratic Reforms, taking into account CEDAW’s Concluding Remarks “
388 000 UAH
Global Network of Women Peacebuilders (GNWP)
Local, National and Regional Strategies to Improve the Implementation of UNSCR 1325 in Armenia, Azerbaijan1, Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine
58 784,42 USD
UN-Women Women in War
The Conference “GENDER, WARS, AND REVOLUTIONS”
2016
UWF
Information campaign for young girls about HIV/AIDS
200 000 UAH
MATRA European Partnership Program
Making a strategic policy agenda for decision makers in the process of decentralization (The case of Kirovohradska Oblast)
3 300 000 UAH
2015
Institute Affari Internazionali (IAI) of Rome and NATO Science for Peace and Security Programme
International Conference on “The military conflict in Ukraine and UN Security Council Resolution 1325 and related Resolutions”
4 000 EURO
ISAR Ednanya
TOT for Organization Development
90 000 UAH
MATRA European Partnership Program
Culture of governmental official in democratic society (Liquid Democracy for Public servants)
1 160 000 UAH
2014
US- Cultural Affairs US Embassy
Improvement of the level of knowledge of governmental officials that undergo training, and that of the professors of the NAPA.
6 151 UAH
Ukrainian Women’s Fund
Social Services for women and girls
100 000 UAH
USAID
RESPOND/METIDA Project Assessment for USAID
22 300 USD
MATRA European Partnership Program
Culture of governmental official in democratic society
1 160 000 UAH
2013
US- Cultural Affairs US Embassy
Improvement of the level of knowledge of governmental officials that undergo training, and that of the professors of the NAPA.
19 834 UAH
2004
UNICEF
Consultations with children who are at risk for HIV / AIDS
67 154,00 UAH
UNICEF
The dialogue in the community about the elimination of iodine deficiency disorders in Ukraine