Contact Information: Network Women's Program, Open Society Institute-Budapest, 11 Nador str., 1051 Budapest, Hungary, Phone: 36-1-327-3139/ext. 2218, Fax: 36-1-327-3103, E-mail: foldvari@osi.hu

National VAW Monitor staff members and consultants participated in Orientation

Contact Information: Women's Human Rights Program, The Advocates for Human Rights, 650 Third Avenue South #550, Minneapolis, MN 55402-1940 USA, Phone: (612) 341-3302, Fax: (612) 341-2971, E-mail: stopvaw@mnadvocates.org

Programs in May and July 2004 which provided them with information about the STOPVAW Website’s purpose and organization, as well as guidance in using the website’s content management tool to modify and add to STOPVAW Country Page content. Below please find a description of and gallery of photographs from the Orientation Programs in Budapest, Hungary and Tbilisi, Georgia.

NWP and MAHR expect that the National VAW Monitors will be able to accomplish the following goals:

1. Enhance the capacity of individuals and NGOs who use the website to develop and implement effective strategies to end violence against women in the region;
2. Employ the website Country Page content and message forums as an advocacy tool;
3. Monitor government compliance with international obligations; and
4. Distribute information to the international community about their government's successes and failures in combating violence against women.

For more information about each National VAW Monitor, click on the country names below.