The EuroFEM Toolkit for Mobilizing Women into Local and Regional Development.Helsinki: Helsinki University of Technology, Centre for Urban and Regional Studies.
Lay-out: Marjo Vänskä-Nissilä and Mirkka Kaaja, HUT. Funding of the Publication: European Union

1 FOREWORD Foreword.PDF

2 HOW TO USE THE TOOLKIT How to use the Toolkit.PDF

3 CONCEPTS AND THEORIES Concepts and Theories.PDF
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4 MAKING A START Making a Start.PDF

5 ORGANISING YOUR WORK Organising your Work.PDF
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6 FINANCING YOUR PROJECT Financing your Project.PDF
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7 EVALUATING PROJECTS Evaluating Projects.PDF
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The whole publication Toolkit.PDF

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3 CONCEPTS AND THEORIES 7
The EuroFEM Framework for Local and Regional Development
Looking through the window of everyday life

4 MAKING A START 15
UNDERSTANDING YOUR SOCIAL AND POLITICAL CONTEXT
“Testing the Living Environment ”
Time Planning
Project Parity
MOVING FROM AN IDEA TO A GOAL
The Northern Feminist University
The Dream Method
UNDERTAKING GENDER ANALYSIS
Engendering statistics
Girls and Boys Analysing their Living Environment
Gender Awareness Excercise
Gender Proofing
Gender Balance and Representation
IDENTIFYING STAKES AND STAKEHOLDERS
Charting the Stakeholders
EuroFEM Actor Analysis
The Web of Institutionalisation
BUILDING FROM THE BOTTOM
How far Down is the Bottom?
Working with Women
Waltham Forest HAT
BUILDING CAPACITY
Supporting Women
Finding a Woman’s Way of Doing
A Personal Story of Developing Confidence
Empowering Effects of Credit Unions
MENTORING AS A SUPPORT MECHANISM
Mentoring for Women in Europe
WORKING WITH DIVERSITY
Health and Safety Audit with Minority Ethnic Groups
Dilemmas of Participatory Appraisal
MAKING YOUR PROJECT VISIBLE
Lobbying
Pro-Active Strategy
Using the Media
Newsletter and Intervention Poetry47
The EuroFEM Diffusion plan

5 ORGANISING YOUR WORK 51
BUILDING A COMMON VISION
Futures Workshop
Using SWOT -Analysis
BUILDING AN APPROPRIATE ORGANISATIONAL STRUCTURE
BENDING AGENDAS
Integrating Feminist and Ecological Approaches to Traffic Avoidance
Viennese Housing Projects by and for women
COPING WITH CHANGE
Co-Operative Ideals Within Market Forces
The Kokkola experience
Surviving Political Change
BUILDING A NETWORK
Survival Through Networking
Networking in Barcelona
Developing Networ Organisations
IDENTIFYING TRAINING ISSUES
Innovative Trainig Methods at the CNDIFF
The Work Training Institute IFOLD, Sardinia
Gender Training
FINDING A CRITICAL FRIEND IN THE ORGANISATION
The Critical Friend in Guadeloupe: Rose-Lee Raqui
The critical Friend in Action: Sirpa Pietikäinen
BUILDING A SUCCESSION STRATEGY
Where will EuroFEM go next?

6 FINANCING YOUR PROJECT 73
MAKING APPLICATIONS FOR FUNDING
The good idea!
Three tools for improving an application
EU funding
BUDGETING
WRITING A BUSINESS AND MARKETING PLAN
Phases of Business Planning
Five Steps in Definig a Marketing Plan

7 EVALUATING PROJECTS 83
EVALUATION SKILLS AND METHODS
A Multilevel Design of an Evaluation System
A Pool of Techniques and Tools