The Gender Budget Watchdog Network organized a workshop for the development of the Network Strategy in Berovo, North Macedonia from 21-22 October 2023. The network was attended by 29 representatives from partner organizations and subgrantees spanning seven countries: Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Moldova, Montenegro, North Macedonia, and Serbia. Additionally, two translators were present for the languages Albanian to English and Serbian to English.
The trainer for this workshop was Nicole Farnsworth the Program Director and Lead Researcher from the Kosovo Women’s Network.
The workshop has covered 5 sessions, which included the following areas:
- Sessions 1-2: Situation and problem analysis regarding GBWN
- Session 3: Objective analysis
- Session 4: Stakeholder analysis and reviewing/updating objective analysis
- Session 5: Networking strategy
Prior to our meeting in Berovo, we held an online session to give all our members an opportunity to contribute to creating the network strategy. Due to budget limitations, we couldn’t invite all our members to Berovo. This session served as a base for our workshop in Berovo. The primary approach used for formulating the GBWN Network Strategy which will be finalized in March 2024 involved a participatory strategic planning workshop. This workshop relied on brainstorming sessions to gather and clarify ideas derived from the objective analysis, situation analysis, risk analysis, and SWOT analysis.
