UNIFEM begins activities in Azerbaijan

The United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM), the UN’s organization to promote women’s empowerment and gender equality, will host the official launching of its regional project, “Women for Conflict Prevention and Peace-building in the Southern Caucasus”, executed in Azerbaijan, Armenia and Georgia. The project will be launched with an exhibition of children’s art on the topic, “Women in Peace-building through Children’s Eyes” at 11.00 a.m. October 16, 2001 at the “The Children’s World” Gallery of the Child &Young Creative Palace named after Tofig Ismayilov at 21, 28 May Street in Baku.

The overall project purpose is to build and support the capacities of women to participate in the peace-building process in the Southern Caucasus. The budget of the project with offices in Azerbaijan, Armenia and Georgia is $1.4 million for a 2-year period.

In the project implementation process, UNIFEM will closely collaborate with the UN, government agencies and national NGOs.*