As part of the project Education leads to equality which is financed by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and European Integration through the development aid program, after five months of implementation, a delegation of 10 women, activist organizations from Sarajevo, Mostar, Tuzla, Modriča and Banja Luka came to Zagreb for a study visit.
They spoke with representatives of the Office of the Ombudsperson, and met in the Croatian Parliament with Nansi Tireli, President of the Committee for Gender Equality and Melita Mulić, a member of the Committee, Emina Bužinkić, a representative of the GOOD Initiative and the Center for Peace Studies, and Vedrana Vrkaš Spaić, a professor who has been advocating for the introduction of civic education into school curricula for years. Only the Ministry of Science, Education and Sports did not find time for a meeting. This is truly a good message - development cooperation in which a key institution does not find it appropriate to present its work in terms of promoting gender equality.
Apart from this setback, everything else was very useful for the visitors, who expressed great satisfaction with the program of the visit.
Together with the representatives of BaBa, the next steps were agreed upon - planning the campaign that will take place in Bosnia and Herzegovina and the final conference that will be organized in Sarajevo.
It will be extremely interesting to see what kind of impact the campaign will have in the neighboring country and whether their ministries of education (and there are significantly more of them) will show greater interest than this one and only one in the Republic of Croatia.
