Women’s Resource & Development Agency, Children in Northern Ireland and Women’s Information Northern Ireland joint response to OFMDFM’s “Delivering Social Change Through Childcare” Strategy, November 2015

NIRWN’s consultation response to OFMDFM’s “Delivering Social Change Through Childcare” Strategy, November 2015

Sets out the framework, principles and a range of key first actions to help deliver the Executive’s vision for childcare. A more comprehensive childcare strategy is set to follow shortly.

Draws on research carried out during throughout the first half of 2014 to identify gaps and unmet needs in education and training affecting women in disadvantaged and rural areas.

Evidence submitted to the Justice Committee by WRDA in relation to the Domestic Abuse Bill 2020.

A guide to best practice on involving women in public consultations.

Includes summaries of speeches, workshop discussions and policy recommendations given at a conference around the theme of bringing a gender awareness to the Shared Future agenda.

This paper seeks to demonstrate the need and benefit of women-only services across Northern Ireland as well as providing the women’s community and voluntary sector with a tool to lobby for funding as well as to highlight the uniqueness and benefits of women-only services, not just for women but families and the community as a whole.

A report on a pilot project seeking to develop a rights based approach to women’s empowerment.

Comprises an audit of the work of WSN members in Europe.

Puts fowards the findings of a conference on global feminism.

A series of demands on gender equality issues, directed at local descision makers.

A leaflet prepared by HereNI discussing fertility options for Lesbian individuals and couples.

A consultation response on behalf of the Women’s Policy Group prepared by the Women’s Sector Lobbyist.

Summary of the impact of cuts to local authority budgets on women.

This paper examines the research on current debt levels and the different types of borrowing available with a focus on problem debt and high cost lending especially for those on low incomes. The overall aim of this research project is to explore the perspectives of women living and working in disadvantaged and rural areas of Northern Ireland on why they need to borrow money, where they go get this money and their experiences of using different forms of lending, particularly the more expensiveforms of credit.

This report into the barriers facing women living in disadvantaged areas was commissioned by the Women’s Centres Regional Partnership with funding from the Voluntary and Community Unit of the Department for Social Development. The aim was to carry out a baseline study detailing the position of women in disadvantaged communities, providing analysis of barriers to participation and indicating key policy issues to be addressed.

Snapshots the position of women in rural Northern Ireland on public bodies, voluntary agencies, political representation, etc, to illustrate the low levels of representation in decision making, in the context of the Review of Public Administration (RPA).

Considers issues of gender mainstreaming and the use of focus groups and audits to illustrate understanding and demonstrate current levels of representation.

An indepth exploration of NIRWN’s priority areas, Caring responsibilities; Rural Transport; Rural Development; Education and Training of Women; Rural Women, Poverty and the Economy and Social Isolation, Health and Wellbeing.

Looks at the barriers affecting women’s access to public and statutory services in rural communities in Northern Ireland.

Case studies of rural women who are making a difference in their communities.

Examines the specialist advice services available to women in the greater Belfast area.

Captures a snapshot of women’s perceptions of the demand for and the actual/potential role of community-based women-only advice in the context of ongoing austerity and associated poverty.

Analyses the impact of the financial crisis on women, including lone parents, migrant women, young women and older women, with a particular focus given to pensions, welfare reform, debt and credit, housing, and energy debt. Includes a summary of policy recommendations for each government department.

Explores and highlights the difficulty that the notion of ‘Forgiveness’ poses in attempting to accept and resolve issues about historical events, such as those that occured during the Northern Ireland conflict. The report itself has been a result of a close working partnership between TWN, The Institute of Governance (QUB), The Forgiveness Project and various community, victim and voluntary groups across the Northern Ireland.

Offers local decision makers guidance on how best to incorporate the views of women into peacebuilding and the development of policy.

The Women’s Resource and Development Agency carried out this research to give voice to women in North Belfast, by capturing their lived experiences and how they individually, their families, their communities, and in turn, their geographical and cultural relationships have been affected.

This paper is a summary report on the findings and recommendations of the Reclaiming the Bonfires project.

Explores women’s accounts of their own experiences of the conflict in Northern Ireland.

Supported by a bursary from NI-CO, the TWN Policy and Research Officer went to Sarajevo, the capital of Bosnia and Herzegovina, 5-9 November 2007 to make connections with organisations working in the area of gender equality and to investigate comparisons between the post-conflict contexts of Bosnia and Herzegovina and Northern Ireland in terms of women’s empowerment.

Draws on the experiences and differences that women went through alongside their male counterparts during the conflict in Northern ireland and examines the needs of women today in our post-conflict society.

Assesses how far the promises of the Belfast Agreement have been achieved in providing the necessary resources to meet the needs of victims and places women within the context of the victims sector.

Investigates women’s role in peacebuilding. Debates relating to innate passivity in women, socialisation processes, differential impact of conflict and coincidental factors are explored. Notions of civil society are also examined and how women are included (or not) in the theory.

Looks at the key instruments, initiatives and activities related to UNSCR 1325 on Women, Peace and Security, with particular focus on Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland.

Offers a brief history of women’s contribution to Belfast, with individual biographies of notable women.

Relays women’s experiences of community service placements in three women’s centres in Northern Ireland.

Presents the findings of a pilot Social Return on Investment (SROI) analysis of two programmes within two different organisations, Ardoyne Women’s Group and Women’s Information Northern Ireland (formerly Women’s Information Group).

In May 2020 the Women’s Regional Consortium conducted a survey to collect evidence on the impact of Covid-19 and the resulting ‘lockdown’ on women’s groups and organisations.

This is the writeup of a survey of the members of the seven partners making up the Women’s Regional Consortium. The survey was concluded in April 2020.

Identifies the social and economic development activities and good practice in the work of eight women’s centres.

Report on women’s opinions about Brexit. The report also looks at the possible gendered impacts of Brexit.

Explores sustainability in community based women’s sector, presenting toolkit on same.

Summarises findings of SROI pilot projects on programmes in Belfast women’s centres and WINI.

Three themes emerged as key factors to ensure engagement of women from disadvantaged and rural areas in the Community Planning process.