Has your club completed a project which you consider is eligible for a Best Practice Award, then nominate the project and have your project achievement recogonised.
Best Practice Award Nomination
Does your club have a project they wish to nominate!
Nomination can be a project which meets any of the 8 objectives and has been submitted and approved to the programme reporting database between 1 January and 30 December 2023.
Nominations open on 1 December 2023 and closes on 1 April 2024.
To be eligible for a prize, the nomination must receive a score of at least 75% of the allocated marks. Clubs which have won an award for a project in the last round of nominations are not eligible for an award for the same project in this round.
Please respond to each question. Please ensure information contained in each question has not been provided in previous questions.
International Day of the Girl Child is an annual and internationally recognized observance on October 11 that empowers girls and amplifies their voices.
Like its adult version, International Women’s Day celebrated on March 8, International Day of the Girl Child acknowledges the importance, power, and potential of adolescent girls by encouraging the opening up of more opportunities for them.
At the same time, this day is designated to eliminate gender-based challenges that little girls face around the world, including child marriages, poor learning opportunities, violence, and discrimination.
It incorporates the Rights of the Child, 2011 recognition of Girls and 75th anniversary of Human Rights Declaration
Day of the Girl Child 2023 Toolkit
Advocacy tools such as you will find in this toolkit, provide you with the information to raise awareness and change attitudes to the rights of a girl child, So that they may make their way in a world which embraces equality. We must amplify our voices, so that our younger women do not experience the bias, bullying, blocked opportunities, lack of support and education often denied to girls. We know that education is the pathway forward to bring equality and opportunities into the lives of younger women. I urge you all to use your voice to amplify and address the challenges faced by girls.
This toolkit is designed to provide you with the tools required to successfully create that change.
Our Voice for Change. Christine Johnstone SISEAP President 2022-2024
Download the toolkit:
from the downloads resources area. You will need to be loged in to the members area.
SISEAP "Climate Change: Women Leading the way" presentation at the Soroptimist International convention resource kit and power point presentation DOWNLOAD HERE
Advocacy involves acting or speaking on behalf of yourself or others to bring about change. It may be undertaken in a number of different ways such as meetings, letter writing, petitions - all identifying a case for change and often detailing what action you see achieving this change. It may be used at each of the various levels of government or to other organisations.
Links to Soroptimist parallel events held over the 2 weeks of 67
Links to blog written by the SISEAP Programme Team on events
Links to the Agreed Conclusions (DRAFT) document and much more.
CSW67 Held 6 to 17 March 2023
Themes:
Priority theme: Innovation and technological change, and education in the digital age for achieving gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls
Review theme: Challenges and opportunities in achieving gender equality and the empowerment of rural women and girls (agreed conclusions of the sixty-second session)
Digital Democracy for Disasters view recording via SISEAP youtube
1. To showcase the need for digital technology in existential threats, education and economic independence of women and girls
2. To scope opportunities for rural women to leapfrog in sustainable development
3. To demonstrate impact – efficiency and effectiveness toward gender equality
4. To articulate steps for fairer futures
Blogs from SISEAP Programme Team and Delegates to CSW67
Seveal of the programme team and the delegates to CSW wrote blogs about the sessions they attended, to read these informative blogs or to share with your club members read the blogs here
CSW 67 Agreed Conclusions (DRAFT) document
The outcome of the Commission’s consideration of the priority theme during its 67th session, the agreed conclusions (DRAFT), can be viewed here
Soroptimists from the 5 Federations attended CSW67. SI Advocacy Advisors Pat Black and Linda Witong have provided an easy-to-digest summary of the CSW67 Agreed Conclusion, which can be found on the Soroptimist International website. Pat and Linda identified three areas of particular concern:
NGOCSW produced a CSW67 round up newsletter, this newsletter has links to paralel events, conversational circles, regional caucus meetings, and more, Read the round up newletter here
SISEAP Education Day Video showcasing some of the wonderful Education focused Projects from Clubs around the Soroptimist International South East Asia Pacific Federation.
Do you want to get involved with Soroptimist International and the United Nations? Did you know that as a Soroptimists you are able to nominate for attendance at the Commission of the Status of Women (CSW).
Soroptimist International is a global movement of women, with members belonging to more than 3,000 clubs in 126 countries/territories, spread over 5 Federations
