The Danish Foreign Ministry has granted 33.5 million kroner to four of KVINFO's projects in the Middle East and North Africa. The new funding supports the realisation of two brand new projects in Jordan and Yemen, as well as the continuation of existing projects in Morocco and cross-region.

The new project Women’s Political Participation in Jordan in cooperation with a.o. Jordanian Women’s Union aims at strengthening women in the upcoming elections. In Yemen, the Danish funding supports the establishment of a library and documentation centre for gender and development at Sana’a University.

The use of mentors is becoming increasingly common. Once a method used only by private corporations, mentor programmes can today be found in every sector.

With a new mentoring theme, KVINFO sets its focus on mentoring and showcases the work which is undertaken by both mentors and mentees within the KVINFO Mentor Network each and every day.

Mentoring and Networking, the international conference hosted by KVINFO's Mentor Network takes place today and tomorrow, November 20th and 21st.




Now the Network's succesful work with integration of refugee and minority women with professional ambitions has received international attention.

The Canadian project Cities of Migration has included the Mentor Network to their list of "Good Ideas in Integration", and the respectable Spanish newspaper El País has portrayed the succesful mentoring programme in a recent article.

"Just imagine if we got down to the task of solving the obvious problems that are pushing Denmark out of today's Scandinavian gender equality elite" - those are the opening words by director at KVINFO, Elisabeth Møller Jensen in the new annual report. The report highlights the events, projects and partnerships central to KVINFO's activities as the Danish centre for information on gender, equality and ethnicity in 2008-2009.