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	HU OSA 127
Fonds 127:	Records of the International Women's Program (IWP)

Date(s) 1997-2006 (2000-2002)

Extent and medium

3 Archival boxes, 0.38 linear meters
152 Audio cassette, 2 linear meters
4 Beta SP, 0.12 linear meters
1 Boxes of color prints, 0.44 linear meters
35 CD-ROM, 0.35 linear meters
2 DVD-ROM, 0.02 linear meters
4 Floppy 3'', 0.00 linear meters
1 mini CD-R, 0.00 linear meters
4 mini DV, 0.00 linear meters
1 Oversized folder, 0.00 linear meters
1 S-VHS C, 0.00 linear meters
114 VHS, 3 linear meters

Name of creator(s)

Network Women's Program at Open Society Institute

Archival history

After closing down the Network Women's Program’s Budapest office in 2006, the records accumulated at the Office were transferred to the Open Society Archives in February 2007.
The International Women’s Program (formerly the Network Women's Program, NWP) of the Open Society Institute was set up in 1997 to secure women’s rights through a number of initiatives and to help building a regional women’s movement. NWP worked with national partners throughout Central, Eastern, and South Eastern Europe, and the former Soviet Union 1997-2006. The NWP and the Network Media Program began administering a pilot grant project in 2000 as the first step in a long-term project on violence against women and the role of the media in raising public awareness. The grant program was announced again in 2001, 2002, and 2003 and a seminar component was introduced in order to build the capacity of women's NGOs and to improve the quality of the media campaigns. The NWP also introduced an innovative community-coordinated strategy, originally developed in Duluth, Minnesota, to countries in Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union.

Immediate source of acquisition or transfer

Network Women's Program, Program Manager's Office in Budapest

Scope and content

The records of this collection mostly consist of campaign materials: public service announcements, television and radio programs, conference and workshop recordings, and printed materials. An overwhelming majority of the documents relate to the 16 Days Campaigns, and the Duluth Program. The materials also include electronic records of grants lists, board meeting minutes, agendas, powerpoint presentations, photographs, conference and meeting recordings. Posters and other printed propaganda materials - brochures, leaflets, flyers and newspaper clippings documenting the NWP’s activities also form part of the collection.

Accruals Expected

System of arrangement

• HU OSA 127-1 Program records, 1997-2006
  • HU OSA 127-1-1 Publications, 1998-2005
  • HU OSA 127-1-2 Audio-visual records of "16 Days Campaigns", 1997-2006
  • HU OSA 127-1-3 Photographs of program events, 1999-2003

Conditions governing access

Video, sound and photo materials are open to the public. Part of the electronic records are restricted.

Conditions governing reproduction Copyrights are held by

Existence and location of copies

• Selected items are available at OSI NY.

Note

Keywords: Central Asia
East Europe
Balkan
Central Europe
Former Soviet Union
human rights
women
women's rights
campaign
gender equality
violence against women
activism
domestic violence
child abuse

Date(s) of descriptions

Collection was processed by Katalin Szarvas and Judit Izinger, 2007-2008, and consulted with Zsuzsanna Zádori.
Online version updated 18 December 2008