2024
Grants approved – June 2024
Number of grants: 20
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1. ASTRA – Antitrafficking Action, Belgrade
- RSD: 443.400
- Activities’ title: Group supervision
The assets are awarded for the need of supervision of ASTRA’s team members, as a process supporting burnout prevention and maintaining mental health of helpers providing direct support to the victims of one of the most difficult crimes and women who have survived traumatic experiences.
2. Roma Women’s Centre Bibija, Belgrade
- RSD: 449.600
- Activities’ title: Child marriage isn’t Roma tradition: Stories of young Roma women
The supported activities focus on the effort to CHANGE the practice of children’s/forced marriages which is an example of violating human rights. Experts consider this problem has to be resolved systemically, and given that it is a long-term problem, the group intends to, using examples of good practices and informing people, achieves influence in its local environment, expecting a positive change through raising the awarness towards eliminating children’s/forced marriages in Roma population.
3. Centre for biopolitical education Biopolis, Belgrade
- RSD: 450.000
- Activities’ title: Present(ed)/Digital Majority
Digital Majority program aims to increase the presence of women and women’s biographies on regional versions of Wikipedia, with a special focus on the culture of resistance and biographies of women who have worked and work in accordance with feminist politics of friendship, solidarity and resistance. The digital world reflects, and sometimes also magnifies the differences between genders, so there is not much written or archived when it comes to women. This program is an attempt of writing the truth about the peace and anti-war movement in the digital world, archiving it for the future.
4. Liceulice, Belgrade
- RSD: 180.000
- Activities’ title: Liceulice FM
Liceulice wants to start a podcast based on their existing radio show Liceulice FM, which is being aired on the RadioAparat station over the past eight years. Facing the changes in media formats, with content aired through streaming platforms being prioritized, as well as those with the video component – while wishing to communicate more broadly the subjects that the group is dealing with, as well as to communicate it to younger and more diverse audiences – the group finds this an important step in expanding its media platform.
5. The Ministry of Space, Belgrade
- RSD: 300.000
- Activities’ title: Towards a feminist city
Towards a feminist city is an attempt to think of the city from a feminist perspective. This implies not only shedding light on mutual impacts of spatial policies, practices and struggles on one hand, and social inequalities, violence and exclusionary matrixes on the other hand, but also thinking of different spatial relationships producing and reflecting diversities, solidarity, care. This public program will, through a series of 10 lectures, workshops, tours, conversations, include numerous perspectives and experiences of women from the civil sector, media, academia and political movements from Serbia and the region, in a collective effort to change how we experience and reshape the cityscapes.
6. Non-formal group of artists: Vesna Vesić, Dragana Marković i Ivana Smiljanić, Belgrade
- RSD: 450.000
- Activities’ title: A book about Mimi Orlović (1965 – 2020) – Heart of Stone
The book is an important contribution to remembrance and development of our women’s and artistic history: simoultaneously, it is a rich monography of Belgrade-Sydmey artist Mima Orlović, full of photos, documentary materials, a little collection of personal memories of Mima and a catallogue of Mima’s posthumous retrospective exhibition, which is in its entirety a collegial, sisterhood action, conducted with hardworking hand and love of her friends, produced with modest, individual donations (18th April – 9th May, Heritage House). The texts are signed by Jasmina Tešanović, Biljana Tomić, Dubravka Đurić, Vladimir Bjeličić, exhibition authors and others.
7. Stereovision, Belgrade
- RSD: 430.000
- Activities’ title: Joined forces II – a platform for self-educational queer-feminist contemorary artistic and educational exchange
Joined Forces II is a suggestion of a platform for self-educational artistic and educational exchange, focusing on presenting contemporary queer-feminist art created by queer people. Using the practices of transparency, participation and solidarity, while also questioning these practices anew and creating new practices, the program aims to invite and nurture collective and interdisciplinary work, and create space for additional education through complicity. The program encompasses production of a multimedia exhibition with an accompanying artistic and discursive program of performative artwork.
8. Collective Action A Roof above Head, Belgrade
- RSD: 448.000
- Activities’ title: Speak loudly and take a lawyer with you
Collective Action A Roof above Head expands its field of struggle against unfair evictions. Communal enterprises and rich trustees are violating the minimum of socially responsible law clauses to earn on empoverished and dicriminated people. But they don’t expect these people will have the support of activists and a lawyer. The group continues to provide legal support for those who cannot afford it so they would become free of unjustly blown up or non-existent debts, but the group also continues gathering needed knowledge for helping people.
9. Okular, Ćićevac
- RSD: 450.000
- Activities’ title: I am a feminist, too
I am a feminist, too activates girls and adolescents from rural areas to become free of stereotypes of their environments and become spokeswomen regarding gender equality, women’s rights, anti-militarism, and anti-schauvinism, through public events and media content they create. It empowers them to recognize and report violence, and to be proactive and empower their friends. At the same time, the activities inform and motivate broader public through texts and videos created by the collectives’ journalists, published on web portal Let the Voice Be Heard.
10. Centre for self-sustainable growth and development „Green Age“, Gornji Milanovac
- RSD: 450.000
- Activities’ title: Permaculture as an introduction to sustainable education
Permaculture as an introduction to sustainable education is a program aiming to educate teachers of elementary schools about the principles of permaculture and integrating those principles into their teaching. Through a training, practical experience and pilot program in schools, the program entices the development of critical thinking, creativity and inclusion among teachers and students. The collective aims to empower teachers to lead positive changes, enticing activism, ecological conciousness and critical thinking among pupils, leading them to become ecologically aware and responsible citizens. This holistic approach has the goal to strengthen the resilience of school communities to ecological and social challenges.
11. Successful women of Kostolac, Kostolac
- RSD: 225.000
- Activities’ title: Stronger together
Stronger together is a program designed with the aim of activists, already trained in the field of gender-based violence, provide support to young girls and women victims of violence or who are potentially exposed to violence in their family or social environment. The envisioned activities will be conducted in several locations in Serbia, focusing on women and girls to recognize, react and exit violent and oppressive environment. The activities will be conducted in formal and non-formal settlements. The final presentation will be held during the 16 days of activism in all the locations where the activists will be participating.
12. Women for Peace, Leskovac
- RSD: 450.000
- Activities’ title: Spread the wings – say no
Enabling independent, high-quality, accessible and free services of supporting women and girls survivors of male violence in the territory of Jablanica district. The activities are focused on holistic response to violence, through SOS telephone consultations, accompanying counselling (legal and psychological), psychotherapy, self-help groups and focus groups. In our many years of practice, we have been encountering sexual, physical, psychological, economic, digital and other types of violence, which is why we can claim that there is high tolerance to threats by physical violence or murder as well as by all sorts of violent behaviors. With these activities, the group will contribute to the higher number of empowered women and girls for exiting violence, and higher number of reported and processed cases of domestic violence.
13. Centre for Social Advancement, Novi Sad
- RSD: 215.000
- Activities’ title: Social and economic rights of LGBT+ people
The planned activities imply an analysis and raising awareness about the problem of social and economic exclusion of LGBT+ people in Serbia, with a special focus on showcasing ideas and good practices respondeing to such problems. The activities will ne mainly conducted in Novi Sad, and are aimed primarily at LGBT+ people, allies and activists of the civil society, political/social movements and parties, with the goal of expanding their conscience about this issue and provide knowledge that can be used in their public advocacy or other forms of activism.
14. Infoteka CK13, Novi Sad
- RSD: 430.050
- Activities’ title: Palestine – presence, past and future
Since 7th October 2023, we are witnessing the crossorads for the Palestinian state, and the entire world. Yet, the roots of current events go much deeper. At the same time, in our public space, there is a lack of systematic approach about this, and there is a lack of knowledge and big misunderstanding of Palestinian reality. Through a series of events in Novi Sad, as well through texts and conversations, Infoteka CK13 wishes to create a broader base of knowledhge of historical and political context, for the foundation of adeqately forming the attitudes and activist responses to the crimes we are witnessing.
15. KAO Parnas, Novi Sad
- RSD: 272.800
- Activities’ title: Catch the film – include the perspective of women with disabilities
Catch the film – include the perspective of women with disabilities impacts the awareness about feminist perspective of women with disabilities among representatives of OCDs in Serbia, through organizing four screenings of films about women with disabilities from the festival Catch the film, in four cities in Serbia, followed by educational discussions and educational theoretical and practical presentations. The program encompasses multiple marginalization of women with disabilities, dealing with specific subjects: gender-based violence, LGBT women with disabilities, the rigth to abortion, war and girls with disabilities, ageism and women convicts, sexuality, and social and economic deprivation.
16. Centre for supporting local community „Mome“, Pirot
- RSD: 438.000
- Activities’ title: Women of Stara Planina – patriarchy and its legacy in rural communities
The program contributes to reasearching and documenting historical roots of patriarchy and misogyny in Serbian society through documentary stories of elderly women from Stara Planina, about lives of women in rural areas, which are adapted to Serbian and translated to English. The adapted content will be published on YouTube channel, with additional content, where it will remain accessible for research conducted by experts and scientists focused the position of women through time, and it will be promoted among young people in Pirot high schools.
17. Centre for community development LINK, Sombor
- RSD: 350.000
- Activities’ title: Women’s voice of Sombor
LINK is establishing an all-encompassing program for women’s empowerment in Sombor, including self-defense course, series of workshops and lectures on women’s rights and social issues, and a public action within 16 Days of Activism. This program supports, educates and connects women, creating a safe space for their emancipation and activism. The goal is to create the safe space for all the women in Sombor, to gather, empower each other and build a women’s community fighting for their rights.
18. Women’s Association Teuta-tim, Trstenik
- RSD: 450.000
- Activities’ title: Safe women, safe society #3
The group is conducting a women’s empowerment program The care of you begins with you which has been conducted successfully twice with over 30 participants. The program will be held in Trstenik and it is directed at women from this municipality and Rasina district. The program is created aiming to strengthen psychological capacities of women and their mental health. Groupwork came as useful for women because of connecting, joining and mutual support. Through the program, women learn how to fight for their needs and emotions.
19. Women’s Association of Kolubara District, Veliki Crljeni
- RSD: 450.000
- Activities’ title: MeetUp – Coalition for Just Inheriting
WAKD, as the initiator and founder of the Coalition for Just Inheriting, together with 14 member organizations, will organize networking activities with the aim of recapitulating the work taking place until now through the project What’s My Part? and the results of that work that will be the foundation of further advocacy for changing the discriminatory article 82 of the Law on Social Protection. The result of networking will ne capacity strengthening, advocacy, planning future actions, info sessions, revising current action plan, considering expansion of membership and presentation of ombudswoman Brankica Jankovic.
20. SOS Girls’ Corner, Vranje
- RSD: 450.000
- Activities’ title: You’re not alone!
You’re not alone! is a program focusing on feminist principle of work with girls aged 12 to 18, students of elementary and highschools, peer educators team of SOS Girls’ corner in Vranje. The program is based on preventing discrimination of girls, preventing gender-based violence towards girls, creative informing and educating girls at the beginning of cognition of life traps of domestic violence and violence in partnerships. The group’s aim is to timely inform and educate girls to recognize all forms of discrimination, gender-based violence, to timely close the door to violence in their lives and avoid living in the spiral of gender-based violence, life lived by many women and girls.
