Partners The Women’s ad hoc Policy Group The group has been meeting since 2002. Meetings take place in the Equality Commission on a regular basis and all with an interest in women’s policy issues are welcome. It has an e-list that is moderated by WRDA. The group is active on a wide range of issues and has produced a Women’s Election Manifesto for each Assembly election, engaging with political parties in order to have women’s issues included within party manifestos. Women’s Centres Regional Partnership (WCRP)
WRDA is a lead partner in the Women's Centres Regional Partnership, with Women's Support Network (WSN), Northern Ireland Rural Women's Network (NIRWN) and the Women's Centre, Derry, providing support to fourteen frontline women's organisations spread across Northern Ireland: seven from the Greater Belfast and Lisburn area, four in the North West and three in Dungannon, Magherafelt and Craigavon. Together the WCRP seeks to develop and strengthen a regional infrastructure which will support community based women's organisations across the north. Click here to visit their site. Live and Learn.jpg "Big Lottery Logo")
WRDA manages the Women’s Centres Learning Partnership, funded by the Big Lottery’s ‘Live and Learn’ programme. A grant of £994,671 is enabling the 14 women’s organizations in the WCRP to deliver a wide range of courses and programmes to over 9,000 women during 2009-2014. Click here to visit their site Hanna’s House Hanna’s House was established on an all-Ireland basis in 1999 with a mission ‘to mobilise the collective energy of women to work towards feminist ideals of justice, equality and non-violence’. The long-term goal is a residential centre for women. Its inspiration came from the Sheehy Skeffington family history of long-standing commitment to women’s emancipation and social justice. Hanna Sheehy Skeffington was Ireland’s leading suffrage campaigner. In the past two years Hanna’s House has organised 4 seminars on an all-island basis, attracting over 1,000 women and a highly successful summer school in Belfast. The director of WRDA chairs the Board of Hanna’s House. Click to view their site. Women's Tec and the Heritage Lottery Fund WRDA and WOMEN’STEC have received funding through the Heritage Lottery Fund for an exciting project which is supporting women to explore the history of women in Belfast. Local women’s groups are researching their own history, women are being trained to deliver bus and walking tours that celebrate the contribution made by women to the city of Belfast and there is a lecture series in the Ulster Hall where noted contributors will be talking about the history of Belfast women. Forum for Adult Learning in Northern Ireland (FALNI)
WRDA are one of the founding members of FALNI, a newly formed network of stakeholder organisations with region-wide interests and responsibilities which sees to promote the contribution of adult learning, particularly with politicians and government departments. Click here to view the forums facebook page
FALNI Research Paper July 2011
Action Cancer
WRDA work in partnership with Action Cancer to deliver a programme of special clinics, targeting groups of women who have more difficulty in accessing breast screening services than others. These clinics are available to women who have learning/physical disabilities, women from minority ethnic groups, older women or women that we consider to have special needs.
WRDA Staff Representations WRDA staff are represented on a range of boards and organisations promoting a gender perspective. Organisations are listed below:
Policy and Advocacy Women’s ad hoc Policy Group NICVA Women’s Policy Forum Rural Women’s Policy Forum Good Relations Forum Gender Advisory Panel, OFMDFM Department of Regional Development S75 Reference Group Regional Equality Liaison Panel, Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety Policing Board, Women’s Strategic Reference Group Human Rights Consortium Salzburg Global Seminar Women’s National Commission Early Years Strategic Alliance DARD Equality Steering Group
Health Inequalities - South Eastern Trust Sexual Health Community of Interest
- North Down and Ards Mental Health & Suicide Prevention Community of Interest
Leadership and Infrastructure Support - NICVA Executive
- Management Committee of Northern Ireland Rural Women’s Network
- Chair of Board of Directors, Hanna’s House
- Board of Northern Ireland Women’s European Network
- Organisation of the Unemployed; Northern Ireland
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