This September The Women’s Resource & Development Agency’s Award Winning Community Facilitator Programme Is coming to Coleraine. This 8 week programme will run every Tuesday starting on Tuesday 12th September at Causeway Rural & Urban Network 1 Brook St, Coleraine BT52 1EN 9.30 – 2.30pm. The Community Facilitator Programme offers local women the […]
This is an excerpt from the WPG response, you can read the full document here. The Women’s Policy Group have identified several significant concerns with this Draft Strategy which we have highlighted throughout this response. In general, the over-arching issue with the approach taken in this Draft Strategy is that it is impossible to gauge […]
This is an excerpt from the WPG NI Response to TEO Ending VAWG: Experiences and Attitudes of 16-year-olds in Northern Ireland report – Readership Survey. The Women’s Policy Group have engaged consistently with TEO EVAWG Strategy Team throughout the design of this important Strategy and are heavily invested in its success. We have committed to […]
When the Executive collapsed in February 2022, the women’s sector lost an important arena for influencing policy and lobbying on gender equality issues. In the absence of an Executive, local councils play an even more important role in helping us to advance gender equality in Northern Ireland. Local councils have the potential to be a […]
Bowel cancer is the fourth most common cancer in NI. Around 1 in 20 people will be diagnosed with bowel cancer and around 430 people die from the disease. Early detection is key to improved survival rates and the recently introduced FIT home screening kit is key to this. It is also a good idea […]
The NI Women’s Policy Group believes that a Circular Economy Strategy for NI is essential, but that the approach outlined by the Department for Economy is one that will not be sufficient to meet the goals we need to meet. We need to move beyond an approach that centres economic growth, to take into account […]
‘Where’s Our Democracy?’ is a campaign focused on improving the quality of democracy in Northern Ireland by restoring the spirit of the Belfast/ Good Friday Agreement and achieving stable, functioning government in the long term. Improving the quality of our democracy means embedding and enshrining key democratic values and principles within our institutions. The people […]
It is estimated that one in five women experience mental health issues during pregnancy or in the year after giving birth. Despite the prevalence of these issues, Northern Ireland lags significantly behind the rest of the United Kingdom in terms of providing the required services and support for mothers in the region. For example, Northern […]
Women were disproportionately impacted by the austerity policies following the financial crash. Women were disproportionately impacted by the pandemic and are now being disproportionately impacted by the cost of living crisis. Women in Northern Ireland deserve to have functioning democratic political institutions with elected officials who are committed to tackling the issues they face on […]
As part of a doctoral research project, Kate Mukungu carried out 10 life history interviews with activists from NI that have taken a stance on VAWG – violence against women and girls. These 2016 interviews were part of a study across two sites, Namibia and Northern Ireland, which sought to understand how women activists develop […]
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