WIN Project resources

Publication highlights

  • Gender and corruption in the access to natural resources: preliminary findings

    The publication aims at uncovering the nexus between gender and corruption in natural resource management by focusing on women’s access to water, land, forestry and extractives. The preliminary findings of this research highlight the vital role natural resources play in the economic empowerment of women as well as the pervasive impact that corruption has on the environment.

  • WHAT DOES IT TAKE – achieving equality for minority women

    The OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities and the OSCE Secretariat Gender Issues Programme WIN Project commissioned research into the intersections of gender equality and national minorities. The factsheet highlights key findings and provides recommendations to OSCE participating States to promote equal opportunities for minority women.

  • Toolkit: Preventing and responding to gender-based violence during the war and in post-war settings

    Based on the expertise of women’s organizations, this toolkit not only presents the harm and challenges posed by conflicts but also documents promising first-hand practices with concrete examples from four WAVE Network members, including their initiatives and recommendations as women’s organizations who experience and have experienced war.

  • Central Asia, the South Caucasus, Eastern Europe and Mongolia. Mapping of Women’s Resource Centres and other Integrated Service Providers for Survivors of Gender-Based Violence

    This comprehensive mapping of Women’s resource centres and other integrated service providers for survivors of gender-based violence (GBV) in Central Asia, the South Caucasus, Eastern Europe and Mongolia offers extensive information on existing services and mechanisms for direct assistance to and protection of survivors of GBV.

  • OSCE Policy Brief – Linkages between Violent Misogyny and Violent Extremism

    This policy brief is based on policy-focused research and interviews concerning the links between violent misogyny and violent extremism and radicalization that lead to terrorism (VERLT).

  • Engaging Men in Gender Equality at the OSCE: A Toolkit for OSCE Staff

    This practical toolkit is based on secondary research and a series of interviews with practitioners and subject matter experts. The toolkit aims to inspire and guide the OSCE staff at different executive structures in establishing Men for Gender Equality Groups to foster gender equality in the OSCE workplace.

  • Report from the High-Level Conference on Gender–responsive and Disability–inclusive Disaster Risk Reduction policies and management in the OSCE region and the OSCE partners for co-operation

    “Even if natural disasters are gender neutral, their impacts are not,” OSCE Secretary General Helga Maria Schmid. This report covers the main statements from the High-Level Conference.

  • Gender and Corruption: What do we know?

    This paper addresses the important question of how men and women are impacted differently by corruption, focusing on areas that are relevant to the OSCE mandate. The discussion also highlights the issue of “sextortion”, a form of corruption that disproportionately affects women.

  • Turning commitments into action: Conclusions and recommendations to implement the OSCE commitments on preventing and combating violence against women and girls. OSCE-wide report

    This report compiles the key conclusions from the three sub-regional expert meetings, highlighting the common priority issues for the OSCE region.

  • Eastern Europe. OSCE sub-regional expert meeting on eliminating violence against women and girls.

    Eastern Europe: the second sub-regional meeting brought together 34 participants (90% female) from Belarus, Georgia, the Republic of Moldova (Moldova), the Russian Federation (Russia) and Ukraine.

  • South Eastern Europe. OSCE sub-regional expert meeting on eliminating violence against women and girls

    South Eastern Europe: the third sub-regional meeting brought together 63 participants from Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH), Montenegro, North Macedonia, Serbia as well as from the OSCE Mission in Kosovo.

  • Central Asia and Mongolia. OSCE sub-regional expert meeting on eliminating violence against women and girls.

    Central Asia and Mongolia: the first sub-regional meeting brought together around 70 participants from Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Mongolia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan.

  • Compendium of resources

    The following is a list of materials that were used in the preparation of regional briefings for sub-meetings conducted by the OSCE Gender Issues Programme in 2020. Additional materials that were suggested by experts who participated in the meetings are also included.

WIN Project update: July - December 2022