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Women Candidates

Greece · unspecified · National · See the Greece profile

Evidence: Descriptive / self-reported Top 73% 44/100 · Ask Evidence Copilot about this practice

Women Candidates is a community initiative of Women Act (a non-profit organization founded in 2017 with the aim of empowering women and promoting gender equality in the public sphere in Greece) financed by the Greek Embassy in the USA. The project is funded by the US Embassy in G

Details

Maturity
Scaling
Promoter
Women Act — website
Power domain
Political Power
Methods / tools
Gender Training, Competence development, Networking
Keywords
public office, lidership, training, mentoring, networking

Context

Women Act, a non-profit founded in 2017 to empower women and promote gender equality in Greece's public sphere, created Women Candidates, financed by the US Embassy in Greece, in a country where women hold only 21.5% of parliamentary seats.

Objectives

To provide women with the skills and resources needed to run for public office and to increase women's participation in politics and leadership positions.

Activities

The initiative runs training programmes on public speaking, fundraising and media relations; provides mentoring from experienced politicians and experts; and advocates for policy changes such as candidate-list quotas and electoral systems that encourage the election of more women.

Implementation
Indicative cost
Low (< €50k)
Time to results
Medium (1–3 years)
Staffing & skills
Women Act (non-profit, est. 2017), US Embassy in Greece (funder)

Conditions for success

  • Combined skills training, mentoring by experienced politicians, and networking
  • Sustained donor funding (US Embassy)

Common failure modes

  • No information on the outcomes of the initiative's activities is available in the source material

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Philanthropic / foundation funding

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