Cooperation for the implementation of the Russian Federation National Action Strategy for Women: applying best practices

The project builds on the lessons learned from the project “Co-operation in the implementation of the Russian Federation National Action Strategy for Women (2017-2022)” which ended in May 2020.

On 16 March 2022, at its 1428ter meeting, the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe adopted Resolution CM/Res(2022)2 on the cessation of the membership of the Russian Federation to the Council of Europe. As of that date the Russian Federation ceased being a Council of Europe member State. Projects implemented by the Council of Europe Programme Office in Moscow are discontinued. The Office will not be maintained.

This project aims at further building institutional capacities to promote women’s political participation and to prevent and combat violence against women and domestic violence. The project’s outputs are designed to produce durable change in line with international and European human rights standards and best practices. It aims at empowering those who can be actors of change in the Russian Federation, in favour of gender equality and women’s human rights.
The methodology for delivering results rests on good practices exchanges and peer to peer events. The project outcomes are especially conceived to contribute to the practical implementation of the National Action Strategy, addressing some of its remaining gaps.

The project is implemented by:
the Capacity Building and Co-operation Projects Unit at the Council of Europe’s Gender Equality Division:
Marta BECERRA, Head of Unit
Larissa KIREEVA, Project Manager
together with the Council of Europe Office in Moscow
Yulia Utenkova, Senior Project Officer
Tatiana Kruglik, Project Assistant

Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights in the Russian Federation
Ministry of Labour and Social Protection of the Russian Federation
Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation
Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation
European Union Delegation to the Russian Federation as a representative of the project’s donor

18 September 2021- 17 March 2023

European Union and the Council of Europe

- Co-operation projects
- HELP online course on violence against women and domestic violence
- Co-operation Newsroom
- Co-operation with the EEA and Norway Grants
- PGG: Strengthening access to justice for women victims of violence (2015-2018)
- PGG II: Women's Access to Justice (2019-2022)
- Preventing and Combating Violence against Women in Armenia (2018)
- The Path towards Armenia's Ratification of the Council of Europe Convention on Preventing and Combating Violence against Women and Domestic Violence
- Raising Bosnia and Herzegovina's institutional capacity to prevent and combat violence against women and domestic violence (2019)
- Preventing and Combating Violence against Women in Georgia (2018-2019)
- Reinforcing the fight against violence against women and domestic violence in Kosovo* (Phase II), 2019 -2021
- Co-operation on the implementation of the Russian Federation National Action Strategy for Women 2017–2022 (2019-2020)
- The Istanbul Convention: a tool to advance in fighting violence against women and domestic violence in Ukraine (2018-2020)
- Co-operation with Southern Mediterranean countries
- Promoting an Integrated Approach to End Violence against Women and Enhancing Gender Equality in Georgia (2020-2022)
- Awareness-raising Activities on the Istanbul Convention in the Republic of Moldova (2020-2021)
- Fostering a comprehensive institutional response to violence against women and domestic violence in Turkey
- Raising awareness of the Istanbul Convention and other gender equality standards in Azerbaijan
- Combating Violence Against Women in Ukraine (COVAW)
- Contact us -coop projects
- Reinforcing the fight against violence against women and domestic violence in Kosovo* (phase III)
- Cooperation for the implementation of the Russian Federation National Action Strategy for Women: applying best practices
- Fostering women’s access to justice in Türkiye
- Supporting the implementation of the Istanbul Convention in the Republic of Moldova
- Ending violence against women: multi-country programme
- Raising awareness of the Istanbul Convention: methodology and toolkit for civil society organisations