Mothers in Action - Slovenia
Slovenia
The Mothers in Action Slovenia was an activity of the Mother Nature Project (co-funded by the European Union) with the …
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Soroptimist
Slovakia · Bratislava · Transnational · See the Slovakia profile
Soroptimists are professional women who are engaged in their communities and who work actively on improving the lives of women in these communities. Soroptimists have a global vision of the world and of women’s issues. They are in touch with the challenges women face in their loc
Details
- Maturity
- Established
- Promoter
- Soroptimist Club of Bratislava — website
- Power domain
- Social Power
- Methods / tools
- Competence development, Awareness-raising, Self-regulation, Networking
- Region (NUTS)
SK01- Keywords
- women, communities, rights, empowerment, equality in leadership
Context
The Soroptimist Club of Bratislava is a local chapter of the global Soroptimist network of professional women engaged in improving the lives of women in their communities.
Objectives
The club's initiatives focus on empowerment (political, economic and social), education and sustainability, with a particular focus on capacity-building for girls and women taking on leadership roles.
Activities
Members conceptualise and implement projects responding to local realities within a globally-informed framework, including the Soroptimist Project Matching network, through which assistance for Soroptimist projects can be offered or requested between clubs (e.g. Bratislava and Žilina).
Conclusions
The practice is presented as directly relevant and productive of good results, though the source material does not report an independent evaluation of outcomes.
Implementation
- Indicative cost
- Low (< €50k) — Volunteer-run club; no budget figures published in the source material.
- Time to results
- Long (> 3 years) — Ongoing, established club activity with no defined end date.
- Staffing & skills
- Volunteer professional-women club members, Club officers/leadership
Conditions for success
- Active local club membership of engaged professional women
- Connection to the wider international Soroptimist network for project matching/support
- Local-realities focus within globally consistent themes
Common failure modes
- Reach limited to club membership and its networks
- Reliance on volunteer time and resources
- No reported mechanism to track project or participant outcomes
Where it fits
- Governance type
- international civil-society network / local club
- Scale
- local club within a transnational network
- Income level
- high-income (Slovakia/EU)
Commonly funded by
CERV — Citizens, Equality, Rights and Values
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Data sources
Where this practice's information was retrieved from, and when.
- ProPEGE — Equal Leadership catalogue — accessed 2026-06-14
- Practice website — accessed 2026-06-14
- Promoter website — accessed 2026-06-14
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