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Kherson Women’s Union. Looking into the Future!

We have had a significant event today! The Kherson Women’s Union Executive Board unanimously approved the Kherson Women’s Union NGO Strategic Plan 2018-2022. How we have come to this policy document and what it is – you are welcome to read below.


Why does the Kherson Women’s Union need strategic planning?

What are the trends of the Kherson Women’s Union’ development? What will be its members’ interests next four years? These difficult questions came up before the team the moment we started discussing an importance of strategic planning of the organization. As due to its members’ persistence and versatility, the Union has tried to cover as many activities as possible. We had dealt with festivals, charity activities, public actions, express-learning. The Kherson Women’s Union has always been at all points and all over the place, although this furious pace requires conventional forms.

The elaboration of the NGO Strategic Plan would, undoubtedly, not only help to coordinate and structure the Kherson Women’s Union’s activity but also realize the potential of the team’s work for next four years.

Everyone had an opportunity to give their own views concerning the elaboration of that fundamental document during the first meeting devoted to this difficult question that took place on February 26.


“I want to see a hand! Something that will lead me to be successful at my work!” Yuliya Tishchenko, one of the first activists of the Union remarked.


“The Strategic Plan must become a handbook that will answer all my questions: from ‘what the Kherson Women’s Union does’ till ‘how it realizes the objectives it sets’. Hope, it will be my guide”, admitted Anastasiya Sotnik, a tyro of the team.


“We must focus on the most vital points. We have to accumulate all our potential in order not to get scattered but to elaborate more profound approach to each area of our activity. I want to see a concrete result and future prospects and trends. If we break stereotypes, we have to change consciousness!” Iryna Nikolayeva, the Head of the Kherson Women’s Union, concluded.

So, the elaboration of the Kherson Women’s Union Strategic Plan has started!


How was created the Kherson Women’s Union Strategic Plan and what it is like

The Kherson Women’s Union’s partners, training experts in organizational development Oksana Glebushkina and Olga Zhukova (Nova Generatsiya NGO) invited by the Union team provided qualified expert support concerning preparation and modification of the Strategic Plan.

During two fruitful training sessions held on February 26 and March 2, 2018, the Kherson Women’s Union team managed not only recreate the key moments of the organization founding and give grounds of their mission but assess the internal structure and outline the development trends in all areas of each team member’s activities.

So, according to the Kherson Women’s Union NGO Strategic Plan 2018-2020, the Union set a goal to unite Ukrainian women’s efforts and coordinate their actions to build an open civic society in Ukraine and development of a democratic, rule-of-law and socially oriented state. Moreover, the organization will support initiatives aimed to increase a women’s role and status in all spheres of the social activities on gender equality and democracy basis and also facilitate the observance of children’s fundamental rights and legitimate interests (including children deprived of parental care) that are necessary for their integrated development.

The strategic activity areas of the Union are determined in the document: women, children and youngsters’ self-realization, the defence of children’s rights and formation of the Ukrainian identity on the south of Ukraine.

The Kherson Women’s Union will realize all these challenging tasks due to a row of short- and long-term objectives, determined by the Strategic Plan. And although such ambitious goals require lots of efforts from the Kherson Women’s Union activists and all Kherson community as well, taking into account the Union members’ mission “to realize own potential, unite communities and create happy Ukraine”, they will undoubtedly succeed!

To your success, the Kherson Women’s Union!

And let your slogan “We give happiness!” will become prophetic!

You may find the full text of the Kherson Women’s Union NGO Strategic Plan 2018-2020 here.

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