Programs within the project:

A. "The First National Women's Roundtable", April 24, 1993 Budapest
Twenty-five Hungarian women's organizations, over 150 women in all, participated in the one-day event. The agenda of the roundtable included a ten-minute introduction session by each organization, and at the end of the debate all the women's organizations signed the Closing Statement, the purpose of which was to encourage the co-operation of women's NGO-s toward improving the status of women in Hungary. The success of the roundtable can be found in the acceptance of a diversity of viewpoints among the women's groups and a concrete material that includes the compilation of a list of all the existing women's groups in Hungary, as well as a detailed report of the women's groups both in Hungarian and English.

The meeting was co-sponsored by Project Liberty.

B. "Women and the Hungarian Media", June 5, 1993 Budapest
The second event of the project had more than 60 participants. The meeting had two main topics: What image of women does the media portray? and What role do women play in Hungarian media? After a quite heated debate, approximately 25 women signed a petition to initiate a new type of women's club which would focus on a modern representation of women within the public realm.

The conference was co-sponsored by the Budapest office of the Friedrich Ebert Foundation.

C. "Conference and Training Workshop of the Women Mayors of Hungary", October 8-9, 1993, Budapest.
It was a forum for women mayors to network, to relate their experiences and to participate in specialized training for governing on the municipial level. In the summer of 1993, the Director of MONA and a project co-ordinator travelled over 2,000 kilometers through Hungary to speak personally with women mayors interested in attending the conference and compiling a synopsis of regional problems. The agenda of the conference included one day of networking, presentation of regional reports, and listening to lectures by experts on local governments. The second day included a training session: the mayors were divided into groups and simulated the governing and administration of a municipiality. Experts from the Ministry of Domestic Affairs facilitated these groups as well as provided constructive criticism of the performance of the women mayors.