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Active women change their local communities

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The Women's Forum of Prijepolje is women's NGO that deals with the empowerment of women and promotes gender equality throughout the media. The organization has realized numerous projects that were aimed at raising public awareness about gender equality, empowering women to participate in public and political life. A community TV station- Televizija Forum, has been in operation since 2008, thanks to the Women's Forum, and has received help and support from the OSCE Mission to Serbia.

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A Helping Hand: Women mentoring women

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Mentoring has been widely used in the workplace to help individuals fully realize their potential. Learn how the OSCE has been pairing up women in Serbia to give them a greater role in society, business and politics.

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Zorana Antonijević, the officer at the OSCE Mission to Serbia co-ordinating the mentoring programme, says that the voluntary nature of mentorships means that the programme can be sustained at very little cost.

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Gordana Čomić, Serbia's National Assembly Deputy Speaker, along prominent women from Belgrade and Pristina, discuss everyday work and engagement as female politician during a launch of the Follow Us documentary, Belgrade, 20 May 2015.

Follow Us

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The Follow Us documentary film features the Budva Process (now renamed Follow Us initiative), a dialogue of prominent women from Belgrade and Pristina. The initiative was launched in 2012 and has been facilitated since then by the OSCE Mission to Serbia and the OSCE Mission in Kosovo. The documentary places an emphasis on encouraging the importance of dialogue for the two societies and regional co-operation.

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Mentee Julkica Stefanović (r) realised her dream to become a business entrepreneur when she opened her café in Novi Sad in 2014. Fellow mentee Marina Simeunović (l) introduced her to the programme, which Julkica says has given her invaluable skills.

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Mentees are matched with mentors according to the mentees’ needs, say Svetlana Stefanović (r) and Dina Rakin of the European Movement in Serbia as they present their handbook for mentors and mentees.

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Mentor Svetlana Tomić says she decided to join the mentoring project after having been a mentee herself when she was a student in the United States.

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Mentee Tamara Glišić (r) says she gained the confidence and skills to approach her managers with fresh ideas, thanks to the support of her mentor Gordana Lazarević.

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20 mentors and mentees got together during a two day training in May 2014 for rural and Roma women on the benefits of mentoring relationships organized by the OSCE mission to Serbia together with the OSCE Gender Section in the Secretariat and the Danish NGO KVINFO.

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Some twenty leading female professionals from Serbian business, public and civil sectors, taking part in an OSCE-supported "Mentor's Walk" through Belgrade city centre, aimed at promoting women mentoring programme, gender equality and strengthening of economic and professional position of women in Serbia, Belgrade, 16 November 2013.

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Participants of the training on establish mentoring networks in the OSCE region, discussing approaches to mentoring and empowering women in their professional development, Belgrade, 26 February 2013.