Romanian Women's Lobby

EU Legislative Interests

Nowadays ROWL is one of the leading Romanian umbrella organisations operating in different spheres, such as women human rights, gender equality and equal opportunities, encouraging diversity and promoting the social inclusion of disadvantaged groups of women and girls. The main areas of ROWL activity is ensuring gender equality and equal opportunities for all through education and innovations. Starting from year 2011 ROWL provides training for promoting gender equality to overcome stereotypes in main spheres: politics, education, economics, social, employment and climate change. The other ROWL areas of activity are dedicated for work with different socially disadvantaged groups: long-term unemployed women, disabled women, single mothers, young women, migrants women, women in remote areas, women survivors of domestic violence. ROWL aims to foster their social inclusion, participation in community life and empower them through training, guiding, coaching services and dialogical groups as well to contribute to their empowerment and building their capacities to be competent and successful through social entrepreneurship and using gender budgeting tools. From year 2020 ROWL started to transform digitally its training services to ensure participatory approach and attractiveness for learners. ROWL has developed expertise in integrating different digital tools and platforms (such as Slido, Zoom, specific design platforms with modules of e-learning) into the training process to create more engaging, effective and personalized learning experiences. Since 2007 ROWL has implemented more than 20 European, national and international projects both as coordinator and/or partner in the following directions: gender equality and diversity, gender budgeting, promoting entrepreneurship and social entrepreneurship, digital education practices, capacity building for trainers and learners using e-learning, solving women problems, fostering citizenship education, combatting violence against women, participation of women migrants to political life, digital transformation, sustainable development, women and climate

Communication Activities

RoWL constantly runs the 50/50 campaign with campaign peaks in the election years for the European Parliament as well as those with local and parliamentary elections. ROWL run campaigns and petitions addressed to national political parties to establish as a priority the positioning of a larger number of women in eligible places in the preparation of electoral lists, and also modification of the law of equal opportunities and the electoral law in order to promote a greater number of women in eligible places using the zipper system in the electoral lists. Romanian Women's Lobby Campaigns aims to promote strategic directions to the general public, so it will hold a national event each year to give the public the opportunity to participate in a unique event to promote women who, through their involvement in society, have an important role in the positive change of the world in which we live. Thus, RoWL promote some of the women that Romania is proud of today and who represent models of civic and political devotion, those who monitor the democratic functioning of the electoral system, the correct application of the country's laws, transparency of public spending, local government, public services and civil rights. The events bring to the public's attention the important issues of the local communities in Romania and the efforts made by the women who are involved in solving them. The events promote the value of civic contribution and also be an incentive to promote women as an important decision-maker in local government and political life in the country. ROWL holds yearly AGORA feminist summer camps for young women and girls, participants gain new insights by being part of such a diverse group of women and making lifelong friends and allies. Monitoring the national and European political agenda is essential for NGOs to have the opportunity to play their historical role as active representatives of the realities of all women and girls in the member states. ROWL transfer knowledge to women involved in politics at local, national and European level, RoWL member NGOs and other interested parties. In order to expand and multiply the knowledge and influence of member organizations in the decision-making process of the EU, ROWL held trainings, training sessions; study visits, seminars and conferences. ROWL not look only at the problems that women have in achieving equality, but above all, propose and show solutions, models tested in other communities in Romania or Europe.

Interests Represented

Does not represent commercial interests

Member Of

Romanian Women's Lobby is member in European Women's Lobby https://womenlobby.org/

Organisation Members

https://rowl.ro/en/member-organizations-in-rowl