FemMoz
Empowerment for women in and from Belarus
With our project ‘FemMoz,’ we aim to support and internationally connect activists from Belarus in their emancipatory and socio-political work.
The project was launched in May 2022 and is a continuation and expansion of the project ‘Mutually Together – Empowerment for Women in Belarus,’ which was successfully carried out in 2021. Since then, a series of encounters, seminars, and online discussions have allowed participants to learn from each other, establish sustainable contacts, and further develop solidarity in women’s activism, gender equality, and other related issues.
Main objectives of the project
The main objectives of the project are:
- Consolidating and expanding the sustainable networking and collaboration of activists and experts from Belarus, Poland, Lithuania, and Germany for exchange and cooperation.
- Thematically professionalizing and increasing the resilience of activists in and from Belarus.
- Strengthening the gender discourse and promoting women’s leadership, especially in Belarus and the Belarusian exile community.
- Providing in-depth information on the current political and social situation in Belarus (with a focus on gender discourse, activism, and repression) to the interested public in Germany, the exile countries, and Belarus.
Our project goals are achieved through the following measures:
- Networking forums in Krakow, Vilnius, and Berlin.
- Online seminars for activists from and in Belarus.
- Online educational courses for interested women in and from Belarus on feminism, women’s leadership, and societal pluralism.
- Online discussions with experts/activists from Germany, Belarus, Lithuania, Georgia, Ukraine, and Poland.
- Monitoring reports on the political situation in Belarus (in Russian and English).
- Short video interviews about the experiences of Belarusian activists (life in exile, escape, repression).
Our project partners
The partner organizations include ABF Belarus and the FemGroup in the Coordination Council.
MONITORING REPORTS
Monitoring Belarus December 2023
Monitoring Belarus November 2023
Monitoring Belarus October 2023
Monitoring Belarus September 2023
INTERVIEWS
Interview with Tatsiana Hatsura-Yavorskaya
Interview with Iryna Kashtalian
Interview with Galina Kazimirouskaya
PROJECT EVENTS
Austausch e.V. co-hosted the sixth German-Polish Round Table on Eastern Europe
Green Transformation in Germany, Poland, and Ukraine Amid the War and Post-War Reconstruction
Project donors
The project, running from May 2022 to December 2023, is funded by the German Federal Foreign Office as part of the program ‘Expansion Cooperation with Civil Society in the Eastern Partnership Countries and Russia’.