Records of the Network Women's Program

Fonds

After closing down the Network Women's Program’s Budapest office in 2006, the records accumulated at the Office were transferred to the Open Society Archives in February 2007. The International Women’s Program (formerly the Network Women's Program, NWP) of the Open Society Institute was set up in 1997 to secure women’s rights through a number of initiatives and to help building a regional women’s movement. NWP worked with national partners throughout Central, Eastern, and South Eastern Europe, and the former Soviet Union 1997-2006. The NWP and the Network Media Program began administering a pilot grant project in 2000 as the first step in a long-term project on violence against women and the role of the media in raising public awareness. The grant program was announced again in 2001, 2002, and 2003 and a seminar component was introduced in order to build the capacity of women's NGOs and to improve the quality of the media campaigns. The NWP also introduced an innovative community-coordinated strategy, originally developed in Duluth, Minnesota, to countries in Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union.

The records of this collection mostly consist of campaign materials: public service announcements, television and radio programs, conference and workshop recordings, and printed materials. An overwhelming majority of the documents relate to the 16 Days Campaigns, and the Duluth Program. The materials also include electronic records of grants lists, board meeting minutes, agendas, powerpoint presentations, photographs, conference and meeting recordings. Posters and other printed propaganda materials - brochures, leaflets, flyers and newspaper clippings documenting the NWP’s activities also form part of the collection.

Expected

Partially Restricted (20 Folder/Item Restricted - 342 Folder/Item Not Restricted)

Processed by Katalin Szarvas and Judit Izinger, 2007-2008; consulted with Zsuzsanna Zádori.