News

In this issue: Open meeting of the newly elected LPW Board & LPW members and LPW Activities Program in 2013.

Olena Lazorenko, LPW President &ICC Director (Ukrainian SME) took part in a major EU conference on entrepreneurship training in Brussels. This ETF conference on“Towards Excellence in Entrepreneurship and Enterprise Skills” is a part of Global Entrepreneurship Week.

Kyiv EducationUSA Advising Center invites you to visit EducationUSA Fair inUkraine that will be held on November 3, 2012 in Kyiv!

On 4 April 2012 the Focus Group Meeting with women small and medium entrepreneurs (SME), organised by NGO “League of Professional Women” (LPW) in Kyiv, Ukraine took place. 9 businesswomen from Central, Western and Eastern parts of Ukraine (three pilot regions – Kyiv, Kharkiv and Ivano-Frankivsk) - LPW members and partners took part in the focus group’s meeting.

Within the framework of East Invest Project Ukrainian NGO League of Professional Professional Women (LPW) set up twinning with two EU partners: Siauliai. Chamber of Commerce, Industry and Crafts (SCCIC), Lithuania and Formaper - Milan Chamber of Commerce, Industry, Handicraft and Agriculture, Italy.

Nataliia Martynenko, the League of Professional Women (LPW) Board member, participated in the EU-funded East Invest Project`s B2 – BSO Twinnings Kick-off Conference that took place on 26-27 January 2012, in Istanbul.

The Fourth High Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness (HLF4) came to a close on Dec.1st 2011 and although some observers describe the event as a turning point for international development, the Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) taking part in the negotiations were slightly unsatisfied.

Olena Lazorenko, the President of the NGO “League of Professional Women” (LPW) presented report of the organizationfor 2011 (full version in Ukrainian download from http://lpw.org.ua/ua/reports/) and outlined priorities for the next year at an 14th informal annual meeting that was held in Kiev on 22 December 2011.

Since the last High Level Forum in Accra, more than 20,000 civil society organisations (CSOs) - including trade unions, women’s groups, youth groups, faith-based organisations and other social movements - in more than 90 countries, have been consulted on the process, agenda and expected outcomes of the Fourth High Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness (HLF-4) that is meeting here in Busan.

The meeting “LPW working group on LLL” was held on 11 Octoberin Kiev. The meeting focused on LPW strategic planning on lifelonglearning(LLL)issue in period 2012-2014..