The project builds on the experience gathered in the sphere of promoting gender equality, women’s empowerment and gender aspects of security in the past five years. By operating at grass-root level while simultaneously promoting central mechanisms, the envisaged activities aim at providing a significant contribution to ongoing efforts at national level. The project is designed as a tool to promote gender equality and women’s empowerment as a contribution to the implementation of the National Strategy to Achieve Gender Equality 2012-2020 and the National Action Plan on UNSCR 1325.