PaFemme Foundation Ethnic women make the difference!

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PaFemmeFoundationEthnic women make the
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Commission PaVEM

• Commission Participation of Women from Ethnic
  Minorities
• also known as PaVEM (juli 2003 juli 2005)
• This commission consisted of - Paul Rosenmöller
  (chairman) - Her Royal Highness Princess Máxima
  - Hans de Boer - Lillian Callender - Hans
  Dijkstal- Yasemin Tümer 

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Points of interest PaVEM

• Goal to let ethnic women take part in society.
• The commission focused on four main topics-
  Language plus- Work- Social dialogue-
  Participation teams

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First participation team

• At the instance of HRH princess Máxima a National
  Participation Team was set up in 2005
• By women for women
• Thirty concerned and successful women from
  different ethnic backgrounds who are socially
  active on different levels in society.

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PaFemme Foundation

• From this National Participation Team the PaFemme
  Foundation was set up in June 2006 and the board
  members were appointed.
• Present board members - Nezos Demirel
  (chairwoman)- Henna Pijper- Parwin Raza
• - Kim Tsai
• - Attiya Tunc

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Advisory Council

• Elisa Carter
• RvB GgzE Eindhoven, black female manager 2005
• Hans Dijkstal
• Former member of commission PaVEM and chairman AC
• Mieke de Haan
• Policy advisor Education Habituation, KSV/MBO
  Raad
• Maria Scali
• CEO women relief Zuid Holland
• Mirande Smidt
• Chairman platform PVO
• Yasemin Tümer
• Former member of commission PaVEM

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Mission PaFemme Foundation

• Mission To stimulate participation of black,
  migrant and refugee women with special attention
  for financial independency.
• Our definition of participation is From your
  own strength actively taking part in socially
  economic and/or in social areas.

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Organization chart
Other chainpartners o.a. VNG Oranje Fonds, CWI,
SB
(social) organisations o.a. Forum EQuality
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Core activities PaFemme

• Continuing the movement of successful, socially
  concerned ethnic women (role models)
• Give advice to municipals how to set up
  P-teams
• To make migrant women visible and contribute to a
  
• positive image of ethnic women through the
  media
• Offer programs to advance the expertise of ethnic
  women
• Connect migrant women with each other for
  dialogue and exchange experiences and knowledge
• Connect migrant women with different parties
  municipals, employers, governments, etc
• Execute ad hoc projects fitting within the
  strategic choices of the foundation.

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Strategic goals PaFemme

• Local participation (local P-teams)
• Administrative participation
• Labour force participation (network organization
  pafemme_at_work)
• Expertise advancement (P-team Academy and
  PaFemme Academy)

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Concrete projects/activities

• The following projects were executed and/or were
  given means (plan pafemme_at_work) and are being
  implemented- Network meeting December 2005-
  Network match pafemme_at_work March 2006- National
  conference P-teams / Kick-off meeting May 2006-
  Conference expertise advancement P-teams, Nov.
  2006- Network club business club, January
  2007 (digitalised file job seeking women
  forum)- Network match pafemme_at_work, March 2007-
  National conference P-teams, 2007- Diversity
  market, 2007- P-team Academy 17 November 2007
• Moreover a lot of other projects have been
  defined, for which subsidy requests are
  submitted see the multi annual action plan on
  our site.

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P-teams

• Local participation teams
• Consist of women, girls and/or men, boys of
  different ethnic groups and different grades of
  education
• Tasks of a P-team within a municipal could be-
  Advice function- Signal function- Research
  function- Network function- Example function-
  Intervention by activities

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Municipals

• Stichting PaFemme focuses on the G54-gemeenten,
  but excludes other municipals announcements who
  want to set up a P-team.
• 18 municipals with a P-team, which areAlkmaar,
  Amersfoort, Amsterdam Noord, Breda, Capelle a/d
  IJssel, Den Haag, Deventer, Doetinchem,
  Groningen, Lelystad, Maastricht, Nijmegen,
  Rotterdam, Schiedam, Tilburg, Utrecht, Venlo and
  Zaanstad
• 23 municipals have the intention or are already
  in process to set up a P-team. A complete
  overview can be found at the website
  www.pafemme.nl

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Set up a P-team?

• PaFemme supports and gives advice
• Tool step-by-step plan how to set up a P-team
• Proposal alderman takes part in P-team
• Proposal municipal employee, involved in the set
  up of P-team, becomes ambassador at PaFemme
• Possibility to set up one or more P-teams with
  different (smaller) municipals together (example
  Almelo, Borne, Enschede, Hengelo Zwolle
  regional P-team)
• National platform P-teams which goal is to
  exchange knowledge and experiences among others.

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• For more information contact the office of
  PaFemme Foundation
• T 06 517 42 690
• E info_at_pafemme.nl
• W www.pafemme.nl