«Žene Ženama» plays very important role in development of civil society in BiH in area of understanding of the concept of «democracy» and «human rights».
By providing unique creative space for women's empowerment and advocacy in area of education, social rights, security, peace and gender equality, «Žene Ženama» members built an approach that preserves coherency of women's human rights and women's solidarity in BiH.
«Žene Ženama» is an active participant in building of democratic civil society in BiH. Through continuity and new models of work we practice equality and support initiatives of all those who recognized their personal need to be a part of the processes aimed at improvement of life and future in BiH.
«Žene Ženama» built an empowerment program which gathers specifics of the culture in which we live and women's actions and ideas based on feminist theory and practice.
«Žene Ženama» is a free space in which women think about their lives, the society in which they live and ways how to be creative.
Mission of the organization is a guideline for everyone whose social needs can be satisfied through the organization’s work. It determines the organization’s position in the society.
The mission is everlasting and came as a result of common work on definition of goals, values and future of the organization.
Žene Ženama is a self- organized women's group which contributes to development of civil society through empowerment of women and women's groups and advocates for respect of women's human rights in all spheres of private and social life.
«Žene Ženama» developed a Program which integrates gender perspective in interpretation of human rights, democracy, feminism and non- violent communication by using unique and creative model focused on education and activities of women and women’s groups in BiH context.
Program called «Domestic concept of women's empowerment» is realized through:
- Education
- Support
- Promotion
Activities of the program are education, research, publishing and public work.
«Žene Ženama» is aware of the current situation and that is why we rationally plan our activities by harmonizing our real goals with personal and organizational capacities as well as with assumptions in the surrounding, which gives us possibility to find alternative ways of action which will lead us to the society in which women's human rights will be respected and realized.
Methodology and principles of work of «Žene Ženama» include:
- Team work
- Feminist approaches in definition of goals and values of the organization
- Good information exchange
- Respect of diversities
- Good communication
- Motivation and voluntarism
- Partnership and solidarity
- Transparency of work and actions
Key words with reflect values of the organization:
Basic women’s rights, Education, Empowerment, Advocacy, Feminism, Respect of diversities, Action, Collaboration, Participation and inclusion